The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot, LL. D.: President of the Continental Congress, Volume 2Elias Boudinot, Jane J. Boudinot Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 |
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The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot ..., Volume 2 Elias Boudinot,Jane J. Boudinot Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot ..., Volume 2 Elias Boudinot,Jane J. Boudinot Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot ..., Volume 2 Elias Boudinot,Jane J. Boudinot Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
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Pagina 25 - Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your, discernment and pursuit of the public good...
Pagina 24 - It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them.
Pagina 24 - Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the constitution...
Pagina 249 - That the troops of the United States, in common with all creditors of the same, have an undoubted right to expect such security ; and that Congress will make every effort in their power to obtain, from the respective States, substantial funds, adequate to the object of funding the whole debt of the United States, and will enter upon an immediate and full consideration of the nature of such funds, and the most likely mode of obtaining them. " Ordered, That the remainder of the report be referred to...
Pagina 353 - And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth : for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
Pagina 217 - ... wives, children, from their friends and companions, their fields and flocks, their home and country, are transported to the European settlements in America, with no other accommodation on ship-board than what is provided for brutes. This is the second stage of cruelty from which...
Pagina 282 - Treasury in pursuance of appropriations by law; shall make report, and give information to either branch of the legislature in person or in writing, as may be required, respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives or which shall appertain to his office ; and generally shall perform all such services relative to the finances as he shall be directed to perform.
Pagina 219 - If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe, that the Divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully resistible, however severe and oppressive, the Inhabitants of these Colonies might at least require from the Parliament of Great Britain some evidence, that this dreadful authority over them,...
Pagina 238 - Had the convention attempted a positive enumeration of the powers necessary and proper for carrying their other powers into effect, the attempt would have involved a complete digest of laws on every subject to which the Constitution relates...