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12049Before the law they are equal, but, as a matter of fact, where the law does not interfere, how is it in regard to the property rights of the wife?
4365()___-____ Convey results of estimate/ search by telephone_ yes_ no Fee enclosed?
43653. Who may file a Notice of Intent To Enforce?
4365WHAT IS PUBLICATION?
28750Question: Was any of the original ironwork left?
28750Question: Where did the old chandeliers you installed in the ceiling come from?
28750Question: Where did you get your ideas for the woodwork?
4318Did the subcommittee take these problems into consideration and did they do anything to try and help the teachers to better understand section 107?
4318Have the teachers been protected by this section 107?
4318Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will yield further, then the NEA is satisfied with the language in the bill as it now stands; is that correct?
4318Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
36161Do you really think, Sir, that such a constitution as this can avail to justify those who, like yourself, are engaged in enforcing it?
36161Is it not plain that they are stupendous blockheads, if they imagine that they are anything else than such a cabal?
36161or that their so- called laws impose the least obligation upon anybody?
41075But how long will this ownership or control continue?
41075During lifetime, or for a longer period?
41075If two wills, in duplicate, were in possession of the testator, and he destroyed one, did this, in effect, work a revocation?
41075Or, is the law appertaining to this subject founded on the common law, or is it the creation of the statute?
41075The gist of inquiry is: Does the law of charitable uses exist in those States where the statute of Elizabeth is not in force, or has been repealed?
41075The will must be in writing, and the only question is, what is the meaning of the words used in that writing?
41075What is the definition of a person_ non compos mentis_?
5180Contours of the Relevant Forum: the Library''s Collection as a Whole or the Provision of Internet Access?
5180Do CIPA''s Disabling Provisions Cure the Defect?
5180Narrow Tailoring C. Less Restrictive Alternatives D. Do CIPA''s Disabling Provisions Cure the Defect?
5180What Is Filtering Software, Who Makes It, and What Does It Do?
5180What Is Filtering Software, Who Makes It, and What Does It Do?
77731: Paragraph 28 So why do n''t they do that, if it would be easier and faster?
7773Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
7773Was n''t Hutton Trust the trustee and supposed to be holding the fund?
7773Where would Hutton& Co. get the money?
29513Can this Court revise and reverse it?
29513If we consult the history of the day, does it not inform us that the United States were at least as anxious to obtain it as the Cherokees?
29513Is this the rightful exercise of power, or is it usurpation?
29513Or has nature, or the great Creator of all things, conferred these rights over hunters and fishermen, on agriculturists and manufacturers?
29513The more important inquiry is, does it exhibit a case cognizable by this tribunal?
29513Were not both parties desirous of it?
29513When the United States gave peace, did they not also receive it?
29513Will these powerful considerations avail the plaintiff in error?
29513or to compel their submission to the violence of disorderly and licentious intruders?
17971And why was it unjust?
17971And why, then, should we hesitate to pursue a similar course in respect to the so- called Southern Confederacy?
17971But when the laws of war are in force, what, I ask, is one of those laws?
17971How came that government in danger?
17971Or does any statesman or jurist question our right so to do?
17971What are you now about in Congress?
17971What has brought this wicked war, with all its evils and horrors, upon us?
17971Whence comes the necessity for this uprising of the people?
135681 WHY THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT?
135687?
13568CHAPTER I WHY THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT?
13568Do these indicate wilful fraud or mere ignorance and carelessness?
13568If not, why not?
13568Was the election an honest one?
13568What preparation have we made to meet such a possible result?
13568Where did they come from?
13568Who then are the voters of nine counties who kept the women of an entire state disfranchised?
13568Why should women be denied the privilege thus established?
13568Would Federal Amendment violate local self- government or conflict with State Rights?
39502If such action would have lain at common law, is it taken away by the statute of 8th Anne?
39502Protection is extended to foreign works[ first?]
39502V. Whether this right is any way impeached, restrained, or taken away by the statute of 8th Anne?
39502[ 1912?]
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39502{ Sidenote: Are thoughts created?}
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39502||||Uncertain|||||protection Bulgaria|||||Uncertain 1896?
2373But from his point of view, what is the difference between being fined and taxed a certain sum for doing a certain thing?
2373But what does it mean to a bad man?
2373But why do you imply it?
2373Do we deal with criminals on proper principles?
2373Does punishment deter?
2373Has the defendant gained a right or not?
2373If so, why should it not be required in all contracts?
2373Is it a useful form?
2373Sometimes the desirability of peace, but why is peace more desirable after twenty years than before?
2373Take the fundamental question, What constitutes the law?
2373What does this mean?
2373What have we better than a blind guess to show that the criminal law in its present form does more good than harm?
2373What significance is there in calling one taking right and another wrong from the point of view of the law?
2373Why is a false and injurious statement privileged, if it is made honestly in giving information about a servant?
2373Why is a man at liberty to set up a business which he knows will ruin his neighborhood?
2373Why should any merely historical distinction be allowed to affect the rights and obligations of business men?
53541***** In what respect did the_ Mosher_ show less diligence and skill than required?
53541Are Mortgages Maritime Contracts?
53541Do these facts establish that the shareholders in the Daniel Kaine were partners in her ownership?
53541Favored in Maritime Law 54 2. Who Are Seamen?
53541Has he succeeded in this?
53541Is the tug responsible for this loss?
53541Is vicarious liability the true test or the doctrine of fellow service?
53541It is this: Ought we to imply a condition in the contract that an interruption such as this was to excuse the parties from further performance of it?
53541Nationality means rather-- To what country does the ship in fact belong and to whose protection is she entitled?
53541The Court said: Is the pilot responsible in damages for this accident?
53541The court said that the tow and tug were, in law, one vessel, and the question was, which one?
53541The first question is, what degree of diligence and skill was required of the tug?
53541The inquiry is: Who is to blame for this?
53541The only question in all such cases is, was she in fault?
8691Certainly, Sir,was the quick retort,"and may I beg your honor to take the wool out of your ears?
8691Are the courts to send such questions to a jury or shall the judges decide them?
8691But may not a power be judicial in its nature and yet not wholly so?
8691But out of what did this doctrine spring?
8691But what is a suit?
8691But what shall be the nature of this office, and who shall decide whether these conditions have been fulfilled and these papers filed?
8691Can anything less than that be considered as due process of law?
8691Can that be deemed a judicial sentence to imprisonment which is a sentence to imprisonment during the pleasure of certain administrative officials?
8691Could they sue and be sued in the courts of the United States?
8691How far can the courts, in dealing with these, govern their action by that of the executive?
8691If so, ought not the fate to be meted out to them by judicial authority?
8691Rufus Choate once said that the question at bottom was, Are you afraid to trust the people?
8691What is due process of law?
8691What is property?
8691What serves to establish one?
8691What, he asked, was this law of the land by which all things were to be tried and judged?
8691Who, he asked, were the present judges of their Supreme Court?
12235But how far is this democratic claim that the laws of a State are all contained in one book borne out by the facts?
12235But is it necessarily criminal?
12235But who shall determine whether it is a private, local or special act, or a general law?
12235How did it arise?
12235How many of us have ever formulated in our minds what_ law_ means?
12235How, then, did they invent a legislature?
12235Is it not possible to begin with a broader and more simple division?
12235Or are we to infer that people were more truthful in those days?
12235These may be still tried by_ quo warranto_; meaning, by what warrant do you claim to exercise this office, this monopoly, this privilege?
12235What is the fact?
12235Wine, or beer, use of never regulated by sumptuary legislation; sweet white wine not to be sold at retail; sweet wine( Spanish?)
12235Would legislation prohibiting such employment to women be unconstitutional?
12235[ Footnote 3: This is law in Utah; but nevertheless a letter from a State government official informs me that women are willing to[ and do?]
12235or still more, the amount of business offering, or the amount of possible competition?
31335Would the admission of the negro as a citizen tend in the least to lessen, endanger or impair the enjoyment of our governmental institutions?
31335Are we deprived of the rights, immunities, and privileges of American citizens?
31335But were they mistaken?
31335But where are the classics of our local history?
31335Did the Declaration of Independence, for example, include negroes?
31335Is our liberty restricted?
31335Is the rod of oppression held over us by the General Government?
31335Or did the system have limitations?
31335Or will they oppose the proposition and thereby brand themselves as Tories?
31335Satisfied with existing conditions, he asked:"Are we slaves?
31335Shall the Constitution guarantee to all persons, irrespective of color, the right to acquire, hold, and transmit property?
31335Shall the public schools of the State be open to persons of color?
31335Shall the right of suffrage be extended to Negroes?
31335Shall the testimony of Negroes be accepted in the courts?
31335So the question before the Convention was: Shall the Judges be elected by the people or shall they be chosen by the General Assembly?
31335Then why urge this measure, uncalled for by the people, unwarranted by the condition of the Territory?"
31335Was it universally applicable?
31335Was the militia to be composed exclusively of"able- bodied white male citizens?"
31335Were they able to defeat the Constitution on the issue of its imperfections?
31335What were the duties of Auditor, that they could not be performed for a salary of$ 500 or$ 600?
31335Where and how is the balance to be found by the North and East for Texas?
31335Where is it to be found but in the steadfast part of America?
31335Who are the historians of the Commonwealths?
31335Why?
31335Will they support the proposition to establish a State government and thus follow in the footsteps of the Fathers of the Revolution?
31335With the electorate the primary question was not,"Is the candidate well grounded in the principles of government and administration?"
31335but"What are his political affiliations?"
31335pray for the establishment of a new Territory?
22359[ 35] Is not this probably the history of the decline of the profession in all countries from an honorable office to a money- making trade? 22359 And if I am required to say, who is the best? 22359 And what offence to truth or morality does his advocate commit in discharging that duty to the best of his learning and ability? 22359 But what are the limits of his duty when the legal demands or interests of his client conflict with his own sense of what is just and right? 22359 Can any disclaimer be more complete? 22359 Have they, too, sunk to become clods of the valley? 22359 His own measure of true greatness, humanly speaking, he has left behind him, in very emphatic words:If I am asked, who is the greatest man?
22359How determined, if necessary to the decision of the question?
22359How did they seek to do this?
22359Is he not then a participator in the injustice?
22359It becomes important to inquire what are the true ends of society and government?
22359Shall his own physical and intellectual productions so long survive him?
22359The question really is, what is best for the people at large,--what will be most likely to secure them a high- minded, honorable Bar?
22359What apology can he make for throwing up his brief?
22359What said Mr. Adolphus and his witness, Sarah Mancer?
22359When I could speak, which was not immediately, I said,"Of course then you are going to plead guilty?"
22359Where is the profession, which, in this world, holds out brighter rewards?
22359[ 11] How then is he to acquit himself?
22359[ 23] How far, then, can he safely go in delaying the cause for the benefit of, and in pursuance of the instructions of his client?
22359appeal to Heaven for its testimony to a lie, and not expect to be answered by its lightning?
22359make such an appeal, conscious that an honorable colleague sat beside me, whose valued friendship I must have forever forfeited?
10065Have you a copy of the French Constitution?
10065Am I unduly pessimistic?
10065Americans have never lacked interest in English history; for however broad the stream of our national life, how could we ignore its chief source?
10065And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance?
10065And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
10065But suppose the development of labour- saving machinery should reach a stage where all human labour was eliminated, what would be the effect on man?
10065But what can man- made law do in this warfare against the blind forces of Nature?
10065But what of its future and how long will the Constitution wholly resist the washing of time and circumstance?
10065But when in the history of American business was there such a volume of broken faith as in the drastic deflation of 1920?
10065Conceding that lawlessness is not a novel phenomenon, is not the present time characterized by an exceptional revolt against the authority of law?
10065From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?
10065If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
10065Is it not possible that modern democracy is in danger of strangulation by its present- day methods and ideals?
10065Is it surprising that so portentous a change should have fevered his brain and disturbed his mental equilibrium?
10065Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime?"
10065Is there in this day and generation a spirit of lawlessness greater or different than that that has always characterized human society?
10065May not the current thought of our time be compared with the mighty Mississippi in the period of a spring freshet?
10065Our constant inquiry is,"Is it so nominated"in that compact?
10065Our fathers could not talk over the telephone for three thousand miles, but have we surpassed them in thoughts of enduring value?
10065The destinies of the English- speaking world are bound up with her fortunes and migrations and its conquests are justified by her works"?
10065What was the vision to which the Wise Man referred?
10065When did a nobler"vision"inspire men in the political annals of mankind?
10065When was a great secret better kept?
10065Who can question that this is pre- eminently the age of the sham and the counterfeit?
36145And devastate our homes, and shoot us down by the hundreds of thousands, if we resist?
36145And why are these men so ready to lend money for murdering their fellow men?
36145And why did these men abolish slavery?
36145And why?
36145How can we know which are_ their_ houses, that we may burn or demolish them?
36145How many of those who now support the Constitution, will ever do this?
36145How many will ever dare openly proclaim their right to govern?
36145How shall we defend ourselves and our property against them?
36145How shall we find these men?
36145How shall we know them from others?
36145If so, where are their signatures?
36145Or what government, except one resting upon the sword, like the one we now have, was ever capable of maintaining slavery?
36145Restrain us of our liberty?
36145Subject us to their arbitrary dominion?
36145The Constitution itself, then, being of no authority, on what authority does our government practically rest?
36145The only question is, what power did I put into his hands?
36145Until they have tried the experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others?
36145Was it an absolute and irresponsible one?
36145Were Mr. A, Mr. B, and Mr. C members of it?
36145What is the motive to the secret ballot?
36145What is this but absolute, irresponsible power?
36145Where is your evidence that you, either individually or collectively, ever appointed me your attorney?
36145Where the evidence of their membership?
36145Where the open, authentic proof?
36145Where the record?
36145Which their persons, that we may kill them, and rid the world and ourselves of such tyrants and monsters?
36145Which_ their_ property, that we may destroy it?
36145Who are the men,_ the responsible men_, who rob us of our property?
36145Who, but such usurpers, robbers, and murderers as they, ever established slavery?
36145Who, of our neighbors, are members of this secret band of robbers and murderers?
36145Who, then, created these debts, in the name of"the United States"?
36145[ b] Suppose it be"the best government on earth,"does that prove its own goodness, or only the badness of all other governments?
36145[ f] Of what appreciable value is it to any man, as an individual, that he is allowed a voice in choosing these public masters?
36145and neither have, nor ever had, any corporate existence?
36145but that he had refused or neglected to do so?
36145never made any corporate or individual contract?
36145or a limited and responsible one?
36145or take the legitimate responsibility of their acts?
36145or that I have now broken any faith I ever pledged to you?
36145that he had had the opportunity to sign it, if he would?
36145that he ought to have signed it?
36145that this other man had promised to sign it?
36145that you ever required me to swear to you, that, as your attorney, I would support the Constitution?
40679And why should they?
40679But how long were these constitutions, these republican forms, to exist?
40679If requisitions are made and are not complied with, what is to be done?
40679In what way, and in what sense, could one of them be made paramount over the other?
40679The question arises then, What is that form?
40679Was it to consist of one or of two houses?
40679Was nothing due to the virtue and sense and patriotism of a majority of the people of the United States?
40679Was the Constitution to go into operation at all, unless adopted by all the States, and if so, what number should be sufficient for its establishment?
40679Was the commercial power to experience a like diminution from the full proportions of a just authority over the external trade of the States?
40679What then was to be done?
40679What then were the motives which appear to have led the convention of that State to agree to this concession of the commercial power?
40679What was to mark this distinction as real, and give it practical effect?
40679What was to secure them?
40679When such an inability is supposed to have occurred, and is not made known by the President himself, how is it to be ascertained?
40679Who was to enforce the rules which the people of a State had prescribed for their own action, when threatened by an insurgent and powerful minority?
40679Who was to protect them against foreign invasion or domestic violence?
40679Who was to stand as their guarantor and protector, and to vindicate the right of the majority to govern and alter and modify?
40679Would such a scheme be practicable?
40679Would the people of South Carolina consider the provisions made for their peculiar demands as equivalents for what had been surrendered?
40679Would they consider the situation of their country?
40679and if the latter, what was to be the representation and the rule of suffrage in each?
40679whether the agreement of the nine States required by the Confederation was to be made by their legislatures, or by their delegates in Congress?
28197And may we not appeal also to our brethren of the South-- and ask their fair consideration of the two propositions I have suggested? 28197 Where, I ask, is the good ship Virginia, in the array of the national fleet?
28197And what is the result?
28197And who are we, we may be permitted to ask, to whose hands this charge has been committed?
28197And, gentlemen, would he not as likely give to those who_ could not_ tell?
28197Does the preaching such language to slaves tend to pacification?
28197Gentlemen, did he not give Mr. King one, because he thought that he_ would not_ mention it?
28197If so, does not this libel of itself afford sufficient evidence of malice, without resorting to the matter of other pamphlets not charged?
28197In other words, to see what legal inferences of additional evidence such inscriptions afford?
28197Is it unreasonable to suppose that he was deterred by the warning?
28197It was also asked why the person who gave the bundle to him in New York was not brought to testify in his favor?
28197May not any man be subjected to be treated as a felon, upon the instigation of private malice, or party animosity, or religious rancor?
28197May we not appeal to the experience of eleven years, to show that the work in which we are engaged can be conducted without excitement or alarm?
28197May we not claim at least this merit for our labors:--that they are safe?
28197Now if but one of fifty was given out, is it not as probable that he did not desire to publish them, as that he did?
28197Ought not this to join all hearts, and call forth renewed exertions from those whose labors have thus far been crowned with unexpected success?
28197Shall it be said that we are not liable to the same vicissitudes that have overtaken other nations?
28197The loan to Mr. King was the only instance proved of distribution, and could that be considered malicious?
28197Then why resort to them?
28197There are two questions in this case: are the libels charged criminal?--are they proved to have been published by the traverser?
28197What does he propose for the slave?
28197What is the natural result, if some means are not applied to prevent it?
28197What is the next consequence?
28197What proof could this appropriation or adoption afford of a malicious intent in their publication?
28197What was the case?
28197Why did he not?
28197Why do not his counsel advise it?
28197Why does not this_ persecuted_ man bring his action for false imprisonment?
28197Witness or one of the magistrates asked Crandall"whether he was aware of the nature of the pamphlets when he left New York?"
28197_ Judge Morsell._ Did Crandall make any remark, when you took the pamphlet?
28197_ Question by Key._ Which of the pamphlets did you find at the office, and which at the house?
28197_ Thruston, J._ Would the amalgamation occur after our throats are cut, Mr. Jeffers?
28197what, indeed, but the frightful wickedness and cruelty which are its actual fruits?"
17041But do you think the driver tried to cut him off?
17041Did he turn on the brake handle? 17041 Did you hear the lawyer say in a case he tried in Brooklyn he had seventeen of those experts?"
17041Did you see the car hit the wagon?
17041Do you believe in the United States of America?
17041Do you know the officer who made the arrest?
17041Gentlemen,says the judge,"have you agreed upon a verdict?"
17041Gentlemen,says the judge,"how long will you take in your address?"
17041Ha, Ha,thinks the lawyer"at last,""did n''t you just now say you were sitting on the fourth seat?"
17041Heavens,think the jury,"are we going to have the whole case over again?"
17041Is he your husband?
17041My husband, your Honor? 17041 Vel, the motorman vas Irish, vot you talking about?"
17041What do you say?
17041What do you work at?
17041What,says one juryman,"do you think those pleadings would show anything a reasonable man could understand?"
17041Why should you try to scratch the man''s face? 17041 Why,"asks the juryman,"did n''t the defendant give back the goods if they were not what she wanted?"
17041Why,he says,"does not the court get in an efficiency expert on this calendar evil and have it arranged on a business basis?"
17041And how are the jury to frame their decision before the evidence has been presented?
17041Are not the lives, property, or reputations of particular men at stake?
17041Are the jury to hear a story of bitter resentment or of passion and crime, or a calm demand for the payment of a debt?
17041As a juryman once said to a lawyer after the case:"Why did you excuse me when I said I knew the other lawyer?
17041But in that contract case where the other side wanted something back from the plaintiff, how are they going to find a verdict for both?
17041Did he forget something?
17041Did he switch on the emergency?"
17041Did n''t he have to hold down his job with the company?"
17041Did the plaintiff during years of effort build up a business and take the defendant in as a partner only to be defrauded by him?
17041Do you call that justice?
17041For example, the lawyer asks,"What did you tell your wife about the accident when you got home?"
17041If the plaintiff did not have a case, why did the judge let them go on?
17041In the first place, jury trial is so deeply engraved in the constitutional bill of rights that one might as well ask:"Do you believe in citizenship?"
17041Is he going to drive the client away from them?
17041Is not the best way of knowing whether a man is telling the truth to look at him and watch him while he is talking?
17041Is she not now giving someone an account of the accident?
17041Of course, is that not the reason for their being there?
17041Shall everything be allowed in and a photographic picture of numerous details be given to the court?
17041She is asked:"At the time of the accident, where were you?"
17041The customary question asked jurymen, whether, given such and such a state of facts,"Do you think you could render a fair and impartial verdict?"
17041The lawyer asks again,"Did n''t you tell your wife the horses were going very fast?"
17041The proper question would be:"What happened next?"
17041The question is,"What kind of a cow was it you saw in the plaintiff''s garden?"
17041What did he do?"
17041What have they got to do with it?
17041What was there that he did not remember?
17041Which will you do?"
17041Who are these women who are brought in a crowd together?
17041Why are they there?
17041Why ca n''t the witnesses tell what they know?
17041Why do n''t the lawyers come over and talk to the jury like that?
17041Why does n''t the lawyer ask the witness that question about what he told Smith or what he told his wife?
17041Why does the judge make such absurd rulings?
17041Will the case be dismissed because he forgot to tie a shoe lace or put in a pin?
17041Yet what is the effect?
17041Yet without counsel''s prologue what could be more dull than the naming of street numbers and dates?
38231What do you object to if this is done without profit?
38231About what is that last one?
38231Are n''t they your own property?
38231As a matter of fact, do n''t you buy most of your publications?
38231But you want the power of doing that lending yourselves?
38231Carrying out the analogy with patents, what would you say about the right of a man who buys a patent to dispose of it in any way he pleases?
38231Do the singers and musicians give their services free?
38231Do they charge an admission?
38231Do you mean$ 3,000 or$ 4,000 a year?
38231Does not that, then, give the man a property right which he can use as he pleases-- where you have made no restrictions whatever?
38231Does that give any notice to the purchaser of this book that he can not rent or loan it?
38231For charity or profit or any reason?
38231Has this been brought up?
38231Have the courts interpreted this in any way?
38231How lately have you been putting that notice in your copyright books?
38231How many publications have you in your establishment that are bought outright?
38231How many?
38231How was the use of that restricted when it was purchased?
38231I mean before we left New York?
38231I want to ask where there is anything in that notice that would give notice to the purchaser that he could not rent or loan those books?
38231If I buy a piece of music ought I not to have a right to do what I please with it?
38231Is it not a matter of fact that you make the sale without any contract?
38231Is there anything in that notice that would caution them that they must not lend these books?
38231It is a matter of contract?
38231Let me ask you how it gives any notice whatever that the purchaser can not rent or lend the book?
38231May I correct a typographical error?
38231May I make a suggestion?
38231No objection to their loaning them?
38231Now, has he not the right that he can dispose of that machine to anybody he chooses?
38231Now, suppose we cut that all out?
38231Now, they have committed a crime?
38231Ought I not to have that right?
38231The object that is patented under the patent?
38231Then you do n''t buy them outright?
38231This penalty clause of it?
38231We can not affect that in any way?
38231Well, in public?
38231What do you think the public would borrow these for if not for public performance?
38231What information would that notice give them?
38231What is that suit you were going to explain?
38231What the committee is getting at is whether you give the people you sell these books to any notice at all that they can not rent them?
38231Where is the justice now, when he has his place stocked up, in preventing him from making any profit on it?
38231Who makes that estimate?
38231Who was it?
38231Why?
38231Without any restriction?
38231Would not that be a good deal better than the way it is?
38231Would you be satisfied if we were to restrict the performance of your music to charitable performances or where no charge was made?
38231You do not allow any comments?
38231You sell that without any restriction?
38231Your idea is that nobody but a person who buys a piece of copyright music should have a right to perform it publicly?
31424Against this evident mistake or wilful perversion, what is the evidence?
31424Am I not right in saying, nothing whatever-- nothing more than any man would be subject to, who acted as counsel?
31424And how could he know it?
31424And if he did not, is he not to be presumed to have assented?
31424But what is it?
31424But when explained by Mr. Minns, what is it?
31424Can not we show by him that a part of this return is matter of form, and that he does not know whether it is true or not?
31424Dana._ Do you know the person you arrested, was the person named in the warrant?
31424Dana._ Does the Commissioner mean to rule that a man may be hung in a criminal case, on the return of an officer in another, and that a civil case?
31424Dana._ Mr. Riley, do you know whether the man you arrested was the man named in the original warrant?
31424Dana_--Do you deny you did so?
31424Davis._ Do you remember his saying anything further concerning his position, showing any religious feeling?
31424Davis._ It was that which reminded me of fugitive slave warrants?
31424Davis._ What Mr. Morris?
31424Did your Honor feel bound to join in the pursuit last Saturday, when the mob passed you at the corner of Court street?
31424Do you feel bound, of a pleasant evening, to walk about in the neighborhood and see what fugitives you can find and dispose of?
31424Does the Commissioner also rule that the Government need not show that the man arrested was the man claimed, and that the man rescued was Shadrach?
31424Has it come to this?
31424Have they got you?"
31424He said,"Why?"
31424How can the man''s admission that his name is Shadrach affect us?
31424How is this extraordinary spectacle to be accounted for?
31424I said to him--"What, have they rescued the man?"
31424If such evidence is sufficient, who can be safe?
31424If this is not so, what is the result?
31424Is a man to be bound by statements of others?
31424Is not a Southern man to go into a United States Court?
31424Lunt._ Can you say that none of those who acted as counsel here, spoke of it?
31424Lunt._ Did you attend the meetings at Faneuil Hall in October, relating to the Fugitive Slave Bill?
31424Lunt._ Did you hear Mr. Davis testify the other day, if so, what did he say?
31424Lunt._ Did you speak at that meeting?
31424Lunt._ Does the Commissioner mean to rule in that testimony?
31424Lunt._ Is Mr. Davis often at the office of the Commonwealth?
31424Lunt._ Now with whom is he associated?
31424Lunt_ here put the question,--Do you approve of the rescue?
31424Lunt_--Are you one of the editors of the Commonwealth?
31424Marsh._ Soon after Mr. Davis came in and sat down, he rose, coming towards me, and asked who Mr. Clark was, whether he was a southern man?
31424Mr. Davis meets Mr. Riley in the morning, upon which, after an inquiry whether he has seen Mr. Curtis, he asked if he has a slave case?
31424Mr. Riley, you did n''t know that the person you arrested was the man named in the original warrant and complaint, as the slave of Debree?
31424Now what were the grounds in general, on which the warrant was issued?
31424Now, may it please your Honor, how long and when was Prescott at that post?
31424On what principles of proof is the judgment to be made up?
31424Take from us that great argument, and what can the defendant and myself do?
31424The only witness to this is Prescott; and how does he stand?
31424The question here is, has a law of the United States been violated?
31424Up to this point, what is the evidence against Mr. Davis?
31424Was he counsel?
31424We might well ask, what if this were Mr. Davis?
31424What can the defendant say to discourage colored men from the use of force?
31424What does it prove?
31424What evidence has there been of any of these facts?
31424What is the evidence?
31424What next?
31424What other evidence can there be of counsel''s authority?
31424What single thing did he do as counsel?
31424What then is the predicament in which Prescott has involved himself?
31424What was he waiting for?
31424Where is the remedy?
31424Who passed this law?
31424Who, Mr. Commissioner, is the defendant, at the bar?
31424Why did n''t he publicly disclaim any assent to these proceedings?
31424Why do you volunteer in it?
31424Why is it that the defendant stands here at this bar a prisoner?
31424Why should the criminal proceedings of this day have taken place at all?
31424Why was Mr. Riley warned?
31424Why?
31424Would any compensation tempt you to do it?
31424_ Cross Examined._ Who have you heard speak of it?
31424_ Mr Dana._--For what purpose this narrative to be read here?
31424_ The Commissioner._ Did you know him to be engaged in his legal duties?
31424_ The Commissioner._ Do you contradict your return?
31424_ The Commissioner._ Why did n''t you report the remark of Mr. Davis to the Commissioner?
10401Daniel,he said, addressing me by my Christian name,"what are you doing here?
10401In what position is the prisoner placed by the evidence? 10401 Who is this man?
10401_ District Attorney_.--What newspaper is that from which the counsel reads? 10401 And does not this open a plain path for this prisoner out of the danger of this prosecution? 10401 And how did the slaves behave after they were captured? 10401 And, looking at those facts, is it necessary for me to open my lips in reply? 10401 Are you going to presume that the chickens run into his bag of their own accord, and without his agency? 10401 Are you to presume that the horse came to him of its own accord? 10401 Because the people in another land have arisen and triumphed over the despot, who had done-- what? 10401 But shall this prisoner be allowed to take advantage of his own wrong? 10401 But was not the vessel chartered in Philadelphia to carry off negroes? 10401 By what second- sight are you to look into this void space and time, and to say that Drayton enticed them to go on board? 10401 Can any man be a patriot who pursues such a course? 10401 Can you, without any evidence, say that Drayton enticed them, and that by no other means could they come onboard? 10401 Did he not know they were slaves? 10401 Did he, or not? 10401 Did not that show his authority over them,--that the slaves were under his control, and that he was the master- spirit? 10401 Do n''t you think he ought to? 10401 Do they get up a debate in Congress, and a riot in the city of Washington, every time a theft is committed or attempted in the District? 10401 Does that look as if he seduced them? 10401 For what have we rejoiced? 10401 Has he done anything to take this case out of the transportation statute, and to convert it into a case of stealing? 10401 Has the District Attorney, with all his zeal, pointed out a single particle of evidence of that sort? 10401 He came here from Philadelphia for them; they are found on board his vessel; Drayton says he would steal a negro if he could; is not that enough? 10401 He chartered the vessel to carry off negroes; and, if they were free negroes, or he supposed them to be, how was he to realize an independent fortune? 10401 How can you ask me to abandon it, and thus become a party to my own degradation? 10401 How is he introduced to the jury by his Philadelphia friends? 10401 If he had employers, who were they? 10401 If his confessions are to be taken at all, they are to be taken together; and do they not tend to prove such a state of facts? 10401 If they had been running away, would they not have been downcast and disheartened? 10401 Is he an enlightened friend of freedom, or even a judicious friend of those with whom he affects to sympathize, who adopts such a course? 10401 Is there any crowd or excitement here? 10401 It was all very well for the prisoner''s counsel to smooth things over; but was I, instead of calling him a liar, to say, he told a fib? 10401 Might not somebody else have done it? 10401 Might they not have gone without being enticed at all? 10401 Now, he can not be guilty of both; and which of these offences, if either, does the evidence against him prove? 10401 Now, is it the only possible means of accounting for the presence of Houver''s slaves on board to suppose that this prisoner enticed them? 10401 Now, what is possession of a slave? 10401 Now, which of these two acts is proved against this prisoner? 10401 Shall the record of this trial go forth to the world showing that you have found a fact of which there was no evidence? 10401 The question for you is, Does the evidence in this case bring the prisoner within the law as laid down by the court? 10401 The real question in this case was, Which had I done? 10401 The whole question in this case is, Were these slaves stolen, or were they running away with the prisoner''s assistance? 10401 The wood was a blind; besides he lied about it;--would he have ever come back to collect his note? 10401 There was the fact of their being under the hatches, concealed in the hold of the vessel,--did not that prove he meant to steal them? 10401 We now ask a categorical answer,--Will you remove your press? 10401 We now ask of you, Shall this be done? 10401 Were not these slaves found in Drayton''s possession, and did n''t he admit that he took them? 10401 When I call him a thief and a felon, do I go beyond the charge of the grand jury in the indictment? 10401 Where can the government produce positive testimony to the taking? 10401 Where is the least evidence that the prisoner seduced these slaves, and induced them to leave their masters? 10401 Who does not know that such men are, practically, the worst enemies of the slaves? 10401 Why discuss, when they can not act? 10401 Why first lay down an abstract principle, which they intend to violate in practice? 10401 Why had not these black people, so anxious to escape from their masters, as good a light to their liberty as I had to mine? 10401 Why say he knew he should end his days in a penitentiary? 10401 Why say he took them for gain, if he did not steal them? 10401 Why say if he got off with the negroes he should have realized an independent fortune? 10401 Why so, if the negroes were not slaves? 10401 Why, then, this sudden feeling in his behalf? 10401 Will not these wailings of anguish reach the ears of the Most High? 10401 Would not they have said, Now we are taken? 10401 Would they not exhaust the law- books to find the severest punishment? 10401 You are to look at the evidence; and where is the evidence that the prisoner seduced and enticed these slaves? 15752 But,"said the man who had lost and who held the horse,"the bridle certainly belongs to me, he does not take the bridle, does he?"
15752How big was the sack?
15752How much have you been paid for the decision?
15752My dear Mr. Peck,I said,"will you trust me for two weeks''board?"
15752What did the motion that Judge Terry made with his right hand indicate to you?
15752What is this, Lake?
15752And if so, why should the punishment be less?
15752And was it not so in this case?
15752As I entered he looked up and said,"Why, Judge, you do n''t look well, what is the matter?"
15752As soon as I said this the owner of the bridle turned to his adversary and said,"What will you take for the horse?"
15752Aspinwall replied,"But I do n''t know anything about your onions and potatoes; how should I?
15752Broderick?"
15752Can I help you?"
15752Can the authority of the United States for the protection of their officers be less than their authority to protect their property?
15752Customer:"What was done about it?"
15752Did Judge Turner give any directions to the sheriff to arrest Judge Haun, notwithstanding he was holding his court?
15752Did Mr. Field, in consequence of the order of Judge Turner, leave the court- room in company with the deputy sheriff?
15752Did the Court of Sessions of Yuba County hold a session on that day?
15752Did you continue in the District Court or did you go to the Court of Sessions?
15752Did you spurn the wretch away who made a corrupt proposal to you, or did you hold counsel, sweet counsel with him?
15752Do n''t you think it is a large knife?"
15752Do you realize the fact, my dear Judge, that more than a quarter of a century has elapsed since these events transpired?
15752Every one in greeting me, said"It is a glorious country,"or"Is n''t it a glorious country?"
15752Field was fined by Judge Turner and ordered to be imprisoned?
15752Has Mr. Field or Mr. Mulford ever been restored to the bar by the District Court since the order of expulsion on the 10th of June?
15752Has that order ever been vacated on the records of the District Court?
15752He replied,"What is it that worries you?"
15752How then?
15752How was he to be punished?
15752I asked,"Why not?"
15752I hurried back to the saloon; and as the jurors were standing about chatting with each other I exclaimed,"How is this?
15752I replied,"But, suppose a man puts his name down and afterwards do n''t want the lots?"
15752If this be not so, in the language of the Supreme Court,"Why do we have marshals at all?"
15752Just at this moment Mr. Rodman M. Price, formerly Governor of New Jersey, made his appearance and exclaimed,"How is this?
15752Mr. Wigginton said that Mrs. Terry asked her husband what he could do, and he replied, showing more feeling than he had before:"Do?
15752Mrs. Terry took a third seat from him, and seeing him, said:"What, are you in this car too?"
15752Shall it be said that Justice Field ought to have gone to the nearest justice of the peace and obsequiously begged to have Terry placed under bonds?
15752She repeated her question:"Are you going to take the responsibility of ordering me to deliver up that contract?"
15752Then, after a short pause, I remarked,"What is the case against your prisoner?
15752Turning to me he said,"You say it is all right?"
15752Was the order entered on the records of the District Court, expelling Messrs. Field, Goodwin, and Mulford?
15752Was the trial of Cameron against Sutter proceeded with after Mr. Field left?
15752Were any directions given about a posse?
15752Were any members of the bar expelled by Judge Turner on that day?
15752Were you in court on the 10th day of June?
15752What day was that order entered?
15752What useful functions can they perform in the economy of the National Government?
15752What value would there be to a title in one man, with a right of invasion in the whole world?
15752What was to be done with the prisoner?
15752What, then, would your court do?
15752When you had removed the cover you raised the lid slightly, but in a moment said to me,"What is this, Lake?
15752Who can say that her spirit was not then hovering over him and whispering caution in his ear?
15752Who knows but that a mother''s prayer for the protection of her son, breathed years before, was answered then?
15752Who made up the records of the Court of Sessions on that day?
15752Who took the place of Mr. Field after he left?
15752You have sent Turner where there are only grizzly bears and Indians; why not let him remain there?
15752or"Did you ever see a more glorious country?"
15752you have not had your cigars?
40400Is it likely, Sir, that, if this system of government is rejected, a better will be framed and adopted? 40400 Need I call to your remembrance the_ contrasted_ scenes of which we have been witnesses?
40400Shall I become more particular still? 40400 What is the nature and kind of that government which has been proposed for the United States by the late Convention?
40400Wherein, then, lies the danger? 40400 ''What can be your reasons?'' 40400 ''Why will you not? 40400 ''Why?'' 40400 A natural and very important question now presents itself,--Is such the situation, are such the circumstances, of the United States? 40400 But how were these to be maintained without money? 40400 But if your fears are in danger of being realized, can not certain provisos in the ordinance guard against the evil? 40400 But in what mode were they to be made? 40400 But whatever the consequence may be, are we to lie supine? 40400 By what standard were they to be ascertained? 40400 Can we borrow money? 40400 Can we do any thing to procure us dignity, or to preserve peace and tranquillity? 40400 Can we perform a single national act? 40400 Can we provide for their welfare or happiness? 40400 Can we raise an army? 40400 Can we reasonably expect, however ardently we may wish, to behold the glorious union? 40400 Can we relieve the distress of our citizens? 40400 Could they rely on the militia? 40400 Did our citizens lose their perseverance and magnanimity? 40400 Did they become insensible of resentment and indignation at any high- handed attempt that might have been made to injure or enslave them? 40400 Does representation prevail in the legislative department of the British government? 40400 Have these ideas been realized? 40400 Have those expectations been realized? 40400 How can the common force be exerted, if the power of collecting it be put in weak, foolish, and unsteady hands? 40400 If a better could be obtained at a future time, is there any thing wrong in this? 40400 In this situation, what was to be done? 40400 Is the executive power of Great Britain founded on representation? 40400 Is there any power of the United States that can_ command_ a single shilling? 40400 Is there now a government among us that can do a single act that a national government ought to do? 40400 May not this be done without opposition, at least effectual opposition, in the present situation of our country? 40400 Rather than defer longer a free and liberal system of trade with Spain, why not agree to the exclusion of the Mississippi? 40400 Suppose we reject this system of government; what will be the consequence? 40400 The great men who composed our first council,--are they dead, have they deserted the cause, or what has become of them? 40400 What arguments alleged in support either of the evidences or the right? 40400 What has been the cause? 40400 What is the cause? 40400 What subject, in the whole range of human thought and human endeavor, could be more complex than this? 40400 What was the consequence? 40400 What were those rights? 40400 What, then, has been the cause? 40400 Where does this power reside? 40400 Where will it meet a man so experienced in military affairs, one so renowned for patriotism, conduct, and courage? 40400 Which of these systems ought to have been formed by the Convention? 40400 Who has so great a knowledge of the enemy we have to deal with? 40400 Who so much respected by the soldiery? 40400 Who so well acquainted with their situation and strength? 40400 Who, in short, so able to support the military character of Virginia? 40400 Why, then, should we prematurely urge a matter which is displeasing, and may produce disagreeable consequences, if it is our interest to let it sleep? 40400 With what propriety can we hope our flag will be respected, while we have not a single gun to fire in its defence? 40400 Would it be proper to divide the United States into two or more confederacies? 40400 Would it be reasonable in us to hope for more easy terms, who have so recently assumed our rank among the nations? 40400 Yet what evidences of that right have been produced? 40400 Yet, on the same ground, we may ask what of these elevated thoughts was new, or can be affirmed never before to have entered the conceptions of man? 40400 [ 249] The serious question recurred,--what was to be done? 40400 and How is it to be remedied? 41095 12. with the amendment to it proposed& entered on the 15 instant, as called for by Col. Mason be now taken up? 41095 Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice? 41095 And would any one pretend that such a right tended to blend& confound powers that ought to be separately exercised? 41095 Are all laws whatever to be brought up? 41095 Are not the States y^e Agents? 41095 Are not they to ratify its proceedings? 41095 Are they men? 41095 Are they property? 41095 Are they to be excluded? 41095 Besides in what mode& proportion are they to vote in the Council of Revision? 41095 Besides who is to impeach? 41095 Can it be supposed that this vast Country including the Western territory will 150 years hence remain one nation? 41095 Can no better establish^t be devised? 41095 Can one man be trusted better than all the others if they all agree? 41095 Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled? 41095 Did they not appoint this Convention? 41095 Does no other kind of property but land evidence a common interest in the proprietor? 41095 For What then are all the sacrifices to be made? 41095 From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? 41095 Gen^l Pinkney asked whether no troops were ever to be raised untill an attack should be made on us? 41095 How shall the freehold be defined? 41095 How was a Convention to be formed? 41095 How was redress to be obtained in case duties should be laid beyond the purpose expressed? 41095 If he is to be the Guardian of the people let him be appointed by the people? 41095 If the new Constitution then violates the faith pledged to any description of people will not the makers of it, will not the States, be the violaters? 41095 Is he to have a military force for the purpose, or to have the command of the Militia, the only existing force that can be applied to that use? 41095 Is it meant to require a greater proportion of votes? 41095 Is it to be presumed that the people will ever agree to such a system? 41095 Is no road nor bridge to be established without the Sanction of the General Legislature? 41095 Is the smallest as well as the largest debtor to be excluded? 41095 Is this reasonable? 41095 Is this the case?
41095M^r King asked what was the precise meaning of_ direct_ taxation?
41095M^r Madison, will it not be sufficient to prohibit the making them a_ tender_?
41095Of whom was it to consist?
41095On 2^d part shall the Electors be chosen by the State Legislatures?
41095On the question Shall he be ineligible a 2^d time?
41095On the question Shall the Executive continue for 7 years?
41095On the question for 6 years?
41095On the question shall the vice President be ex officio President of the Senate?
41095On y^e Question, Shall the Executive be removable on impeachments& c.?
41095Ought not every man who pays a tax, to vote for the representative who is to levy& dispose of his money?
41095Shall Vermont be reduced by force in favor of the States claiming it?
41095Shall all the States then be bound to defend each;& shall each be at liberty to introduce a weakness which will render defence more difficult?
41095Shall any man be above Justice?
41095The question as moved by M^r Elseworth being divided, on the 1^{st} part shall y^e Nat^l Executive be appointed by Electors?
41095To whom have Cong^s applied on subsequent occasions for further powers?
41095Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation?
41095Was he to promote the establishment of a plan which he verily believed would end in Tyranny?
41095Was the Executive to hold his place during good behaviour?
41095Was this a proper model for us?
41095Was this qualification restrained to freeholders?
41095What are the great objects of the Gen^l System?
41095What danger could there be in giving a controuling power to the Nat^l Legislature?
41095What effect will this have?
41095What is the extent of the term"disability"and who is to be the judge of it?
41095What is the language of Reason on this subject?
41095What is to be the remedy?
41095What led to the appointment of this Convention?
41095What might have been the consequence of such a regulation at the commencement, or even in the Course of the late contest for our liberties?
41095What obligation then can the small States be under to concur ag^{st} their judgments in reinstating the section?
41095What was the objection to this?
41095What was the practice before this in cases where the Chief Magistrate rendered himself obnoxious?
41095Wherein then lay the dangerous tendency of the innovations to establish an aristocracy in the Senate?
41095Whither then must we resort?
41095Who are to form the New Constitution by which the condition of that class of citizens is to be made worse than the other class?
41095Who will be the best Judges whether these appointments be well made?
41095Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third?
41095Why is the provision restrained to Treason& bribery only?
41095Why should they be restrained from checking the extravagance of the other House?
41095Why then is no other property included?
41095Why then prohibit bills of credit?
41095Why?
41095Will not the new Constitution be their Act?
41095Will such men be the secure& faithful guardians of liberty?
41095Will the former be so in case of a universal& equal suffrage?
41095Will the latter be so in case of a suffrage confined to the holders of property?
41095Will they not be the members of it?
41095With these difficulties in his mind, what course he asked was he to pursue?
41095Would this be the case, if the Executive should be impeachable?
41095by what rule decide?
41095what the force of its acts?
36188Did he do this? 36188 Did you find anything at the close of it that you did not like?
36188From what source did the Military Commission** derive their authority?
36188Mr. Bingham( interrupting).--And not crimes? 36188 Mr. Bradley: And offered it once and withdrew it?
36188Q.--Do you know Mr. Weichman? 36188 Q.--Do you remember any occasion-- some dinner occasion?
36188Q.--I understood you to say that it was a subject of general conversation among the rebel officers? 36188 Q.--Were you in Carroll prison with him?
36188Who will dare to say that in the time of civil war no person shall be deprived of life, liberty and property, without due process of law? 36188 : Conspiracy, Murder, Attempt at murder, Lying in wait? 36188 Again we ask why? 36188 And now what shall be said as to this taking of human life? 36188 And what shall we say of William H. Seward? 36188 But does it? 36188 But we ask what reason had theGreat War Minister""to perpetrate so pitiless an outrage?"
36188But where was Booth?
36188But who remains in the room, meets with the Court and participates in its secret and solemn deliberations?
36188But why was the resurrection delayed until February, 1873?
36188Could the fatuity of folly farther go?
36188Did you find at the end of the record a recommendation to mercy in the case of Mrs. Surratt that the President never saw?
36188Does this mean that Speed was an unseen spectator of the confidential interview, and witnessed the writing of the death- warrant?
36188Ewing.--Do you base it, then, only on the law of nations?
36188Ewing.--I should like an answer to my question, if it is to be given: How many crimes are my clients charged with and being tried for?
36188Ewing.--Is that all the answer to the question?
36188Ewing.--Or whether they are charged with four distinct crimes in this one charge?
36188How?
36188If the sick President did not carefully scrutinize the papers, was that the Judge- Advocate''s fault?
36188In the meantime, the city, and even the whole country to its very borders, were agitated by the question: What is to be the fate of Mrs. Surratt?
36188Is it so?"
36188Is she too ironed?
36188Is this in truth a sufficient explanation?
36188Johnson.--Is the opinion here to which the objection refers?
36188Johnson.--May I ask who the member of the Court is that makes that objection?
36188Maintaining the most rigorous allegiance to the simple unadulterated truth, what can be said?
36188The Shylocks of the days of arbitrary power dropped their sharpened knives and ejaculated,"Is that the law?"
36188The grand question still remains, Was the judgment just?
36188The only question about it which could any longer agitate the people was, had it been suppressed?
36188WAS IT NOT MURDER?
36188Was She Ironed?
36188Was it not Murder?
36188Was it to forestall a last possible effort of reckless and suicidal despair?
36188What are we to think of the complaint of a Union General, that"a rebel party"fired( first?
36188What conceivable motive, we ask again, to invent such a story-- so easy of refutation, so ruinous to himself, if refuted?
36188What in Mars''name did this warrior expect?
36188What more could the successor of the murdered Lincoln want?
36188When he bearded the President in his Cabinet?
36188When he defied him in the War Department, and scattered his missive of removal to the winds?
36188When was he taken with it?
36188Where can we look in the history of the world for a parallel to such a spectacle?
36188Where now was the redoubtable Bingham who, over and over again, had assured the Commission he guided of the unmistakable guilt of all these persons?
36188Who but Recorder Joseph Holt, the head of the Bureau of Military Justice, the left hand of Stanton as Baker was his right?
36188Who gives to the Court the jurisdiction to decide upon the moral character of the counsel who may appear before them?
36188Who makes them the arbiters of the public morality and professional morality?
36188Why consult his confidential advisers after he had decided the whole matter?
36188Why did he not at that crisis come forward with the proof of which the Judge- Advocate was so dreadfully in need?
36188Why did he not"make public"what Seward had told him, while Seward was living?
36188Why did n''t you bring it in?
36188Why did n''t you put that record in evidence, and let us have it here?"
36188Why did not his former assistant even relieve his tremendous anxiety by telling him that he had evidence which would blow the calumny into the air?
36188Why may he not have been bad enough to suppress the recommendation?
36188Why should Bingham have obeyed the"advice,"even if given by Stanton so long before?
36188Why should he not have kept back the timorous suggestion of five officers, who were so soft- hearted as to"discriminate"as to sex?
36188Why, then, do we hear nothing from Judge Bingham for three years more?
36188but that when"it became his duty as an officer to fire upon a rebel party"the rebel party fired) back?
36188e._, the Rebellion) he entered into it to aid it, did he not?"
36188where Atzerodt?
36188where Herold?
18637[ 1] Another leveled a similar criticism at the entire amendment;What is meant by the terms excessive bail?
18637''If he decides against the treaty, to whom is a nation to appeal?''
18637*** But are we all, on that account, at the mercy of the legislative majorities?
18637*** Commerce among the States must, of necessity, be commerce[ within?]
18637*** The inquiry is,"wrote Justice Washington,"what are the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?
18637And why may not the products of the field be brought within the principle?
18637But can the Court stop at this point?
18637But how was this done?
18637But is its scope the same?
18637Can it be doubted that Congress has power to repeal at any time the protection which present legislation affords organized labor?
18637Can we establish a constitutional doctrine which forbids the elected representatives of the people to make this choice?
18637Can we hold that the First Amendment deprives Congress of what it deemed necessary for the Government''s protection?
18637Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights?
18637Effect of the Oath Does the oath add anything to the President''s powers?
18637He says:"Can we then say that the judgment Congress exercised was denied it by the Constitution?
18637How as to the converse situation?
18637How does''released time''operate in Champaign?
18637How is this practice to be squared with the express words of the Constitution?
18637How is this vast proliferation of cases, and attendant expansion of the Court''s constitutional jurisdiction, to be explained?
18637IS ANY IMMUNITY LEFT THE STATES?
18637If a committee departs so far from its domain[ as?]
18637If hitherto, why not henceforth?
18637Is everybody out of step but this Court?
18637Is it impaired by the acts under which the defendant holds?
18637Is that such a violation of contracts as is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States?
18637Is this contract protected by the Constitution of the United States?
18637MYERS CASE VERSUS HUMPHREY CASE How does this issue stand today?
18637May not the House of Representatives impeach the President for such refusal?
18637Second, assuming an affirmative answer to the above question, is Congress under constitutional obligation to supply such implementation?
18637Should, on the other hand, the adolescent mind be put at the mercy of the uninhibited reading tastes of an elderly federal judge?
18637THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF A CIVILIAN OFFICER Is the Commander in Chiefship a military or civilian office in the contemplation of the Constitution?
18637To the question:"What is the law which governs an army invading an enemy''s country?"
18637Was the same principle expected to apply to the power over foreign and interstate commerce?
18637What could be more irrational?
18637What is it that is to be regulated?
18637What is the liberty which that clause underwrites?
18637What is understood by excessive fines?
18637What powers are implied from this duty?
18637What, then, are the outstanding differences between such conditional prohibitions of commerce and that with which this rà © sumà © deals?
18637When does this happen?
18637Whence, however, comes this law?
18637Who are to be the judges?
18637Would[ not?]
18637[ 1587] How is it as to judicial decisions?
18637[ 164] WHEN IS A TREATY SELF- EXECUTING?
18637[ 1650] The Right to Reserve: When Limited.--Is the right which is reserved by a State to"amend"or"alter"a charter without restriction?
18637[ 218] A little later he raises the question,"But how are competing interests to be assessed?"
18637[ 341] A FORMAL OR A FORMATIVE POWER?
18637[ 44] OATH OF OFFICE What is the time relationship between a President''s assumption of office and his taking the oath?
18637in"9 Stat., 428, 432- 433"and removed question mark in"Grand Depository of the Democratic Principle"?
18637or could he be fined or taxed for doing so?
18637the strange spectacle be offered to the public world of an attempt by this court to arrest proceedings in that court?
31425A Government which can make white men slaves?
31425And does such a case constitute a rule of decision for this court-- a case to be followed by this court?
31425And how does the power of Congress stand west of the Mississippi river?
31425And if it was intended to secure these rights only to citizens of the United States, how has the Constitution here described such persons?
31425And what law of slavery does either take with him to the Territory?
31425And why not?
31425But if we are to turn our attention to the dark ages of the world, why confine our view to colored slavery?
31425But what court has not changed its opinions?
31425But where there is no such law, can the master control the will of the slave by force?
31425But why are the African race, born in the State, not permitted to share in one of the highest duties of the citizen?
31425But, how is the case different on the return of the plaintiff to the State of Missouri?
31425By virtue of what law is it, that a master may take his slave into free territory, and exact from him the duties of a slave?
31425Can Congress determine the condition and_ status_ of persons who inhabit the Territories?
31425Can anything be more despotic?"
31425Can the master sell him?
31425Could the plaintiff contract a lawful marriage there?
31425Did the Constitution of the United States deprive them or their descendants of citizenship?
31425Does not the master assent to the law, when he places himself under it in a free State?
31425Does the master carry with him the law of the State from which he removes into the Territory?
31425Does this legislation deprive him of his property without due process of law?
31425For who, it may be asked, is a citizen?
31425Had the Circuit Court of the United States jurisdiction to hear and determine the case between these parties?
31425Has it empowered Congress to enact what free persons, born within the several States, shall or shall not be citizens of the United States?
31425Has the law of Illinois any greater force within the jurisdiction of Missouri, than the laws of the latter within that of the former?
31425Has this impressive lesson of practical wisdom become lost to the present generation?
31425Have the people of either any right to disturb the relations of the other?
31425How do we read the Constitution?
31425If a State court may do this, on a question involving the liberty of a human being, what protection do the laws afford?
31425If it be assigned to a man from a free State, may he coerce the slave by virtue of it?
31425If it be said to be those laws respecting slavery which existed in the particular State from which each slave last came, what an anomaly is this?
31425If it had jurisdiction, is the judgment it has given erroneous or not?
31425If not, how can a similar regulation respecting a Territory violate the fifth amendment of the Constitution?
31425If so, what becomes of the laws prohibiting the slave trade?
31425If there be doubt, what rule of construction has been established in the slave States?
31425If they were not, is Scott himself free by reason of his removal to Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, as stated in the above admissions?
31425If, then, this clause does contain a power to legislate respecting the territory, what are the limits of that power?
31425In selecting those who are to enjoy these national rights of citizenship, how are they described?
31425In view of these facts, let us inquire how the question stands by the terms of the Constitution, aside from the treaty?
31425In what does the distinction consist?
31425Is it not a practical instrument?
31425Is it personal or real property?
31425Is it transferable?
31425Is she bound to recognise and enforce the law of Illinois?
31425Is there less comity existing between State and State, or State and Territory, than exists between the despotic Governments of Europe?"
31425May it be negotiated, as a promissory note or bill of exchange?
31425Moreover, if the right exists, what are its limits, and what are its conditions?
31425Mr. Sloan:"Can anything be more repugnant to the principles of just government?
31425On the decease of the master, does the slave descend to his heirs as property?
31425Or is it an indefinable fragment of sovereignty, which every person carries with him from his late domicil?
31425Shall we not cherish and maintain it?
31425Suppose a slave escape from a Territory where slavery is not authorized by law, can he be reclaimed?
31425The first is, what was the law of the Territory into which the master and slave went, respecting the relation between them?
31425The remaining question for consideration is, What is the law of the State of Missouri on this subject?
31425This is the agreed case; and can it be inferred from this that Scott and family returned to Missouri voluntarily?
31425Thus Chief Justice Marshall( in United States_ v._ Bevans, 3 Wheat., 386) says:"What, then, is the extent of jurisdiction which a State possesses?
31425Under such a jurisdiction, may the colored man be levied on as the property of his master by a creditor?
31425Upon what principle, then, can it be denied to the State of Missouri?
31425Was he, together with his family, free in Missouri by reason of the stay in the territory of the United States hereinbefore mentioned?
31425What can be more conclusive than this?
31425What do the character and_ status_ of citizen import?
31425What gives the master the right to control the will of his slave?
31425What is the law of Missouri in such a case?
31425What judge has not changed his?
31425What shall this thing be denominated?
31425When the military force of the Union shall conquer a country, may not Congress provide for the government of such country?
31425Why was he set free in Illinois?
31425Will it be said that the slave is taken as property, the same as other property which the master may own?
31425and does that enable him to coerce his slave in the Territory?
5268A hundred?
5268Ah, stop is it? 5268 Ah, ye objec'', do ye?"
5268Anybody have good hosses in this town?
5268Are you acquainted with the accused or his family?
5268But how? 5268 But may it not be a similar one and not your own?"
5268By the way,said the friend,"do you ever hear of any''touches''up the river or along the Sound?"
5268Did you ever remove this terrible poison from the bolster?
5268Did you hear your chief witness say he was a carpenter?
5268Do you admit that you were on Forty- second Street at midnight?
5268Do you say, Mrs.--the lawyer would inquire deferentially,"that you heard the sound of three blows?"
5268Eighty?
5268Fifty?
5268Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?
5268Have you ever changed the bolster?
5268How do you support yourself?
5268How much did you give him?
5268How much did you give him?
5268How say you, do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?
5268I am quite sure that it is mine:"How do you know?
5268I suppose you have heard the report that Deacon Smith has stolen the church funds?
5268Is he? 5268 Is that dead on the level?"
5268Madam,he began courteously,"you say you gave the defendant money?"
5268Mr. District Attorney,remarked the presiding justice dryly( which did not lessen the confusion of the young lawyer),"is this a fact?
5268Presumed to be innocent?
5268Seventy?
5268Then it''s there yet?
5268Twenty miles an hour?
5268Well, why did n''t you say so?
5268What do you mean?
5268What sort of a feller is he?
5268When was it?
5268Why do you ask?
5268Why should I?
5268Will you say it was going forty?
5268Will you say it was going thirty miles an hour?
5268Would you say that it was going at ten miles an hour?
5268* Is it likely that any judge would have done much better?
5268And is not this a"government of laws"?
5268And what is the meaning of that?
5268Anything particularly undignified about that?"
5268Are not the rights of a beggar as sacred as those of a bishop?
5268But suppose in addition that these theoretic rights are entirely theoretic and fly in the face of the laws of nature, experience, and common sense?
5268Deacon Smith after the money- bag?
5268Do n''t you know So- and- So is under my protection?"
5268Do not the jury and everybody else know that this good old man would never, save by mistake, accuse anybody falsely of crime?
5268Do they really presume him innocent?
5268Do you think I care what this jury does?
5268Dodge?"
5268Does n''t he owe a duty to the public the same as any other witness?
5268Does not the law say so?
5268Does she look like a guilty woman?
5268Does such a practice make for justice?
5268Does the judge expect that they are actually to swallow that?
5268Dough?"
5268Else would I have married an old crone who could not have borne me children?
5268First, how can the sympathies of the jury be enlisted at the very start?
5268For example:"Do you know the defendant?"
5268Has the defendant a license?"
5268He drew from his pocket a folded paper and handed it to the paralyzed young attorney with the harsh demand:"What do you say to that?"
5268How about the killings where the murderer is never caught?
5268How could I keep my self- respect and write that kind of sensational stuff-- Why do men kill?
5268How many readers of this paper have ever experienced an actual desire to kill another human being?
5268I am not guilty of thoo dedys, ne noon of hem, God help me so.... How wylte thou acquite the?...
5268If a defendant intends to prove himself irresponsible for his offence, why should he not be compelled to enter a specific plea to that effect?
5268If such be the case, did he know right from wrong as applied to the particular act in question?
5268If they could beat a case in which they had already pleaded guilty, what could they not do where the evidence was less obvious?
5268If we come climbing over the fence sweating apples at every pore, is Farmer Jones to go and count his apples before grabbing us?
5268If we knew why, maybe we could stop it, could n''t we?
5268Is it any wonder that so many cases are sold out by employees, even when the agencies are honest?"
5268Is it possible to deduce any order out of such homicidal chaos?
5268Logically, why should not a person charged with a crime be obliged to give what explanation he can of the affair?
5268Meantime Jim''ll be out makin''money to pay me my fee-- won''t you, Jim?
5268Now why did HE kill?
5268One of the ladies referred to testified as follows:"Can you identify that diamond?"
5268Or"How old are you?"
5268Question 3.--"In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner''s state of mind when the act was committed?
5268Question 4:--"If a person under an insane delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof, is he thereby excused?
5268S''pose we are convicted?
5268So you plead guilty, do you?
5268Supposing I dug out all the homicide cases I had ever tried, what would the result show as to motive for the killing?
5268The quaint old report begins in Latin, but"the pleadings"are set forth in the language of the day, as follows:"Agnes Archer, is that thy name?
5268The writer remembers being nicely hoisted by his own petard on a similar occasion:"What do you do for a living?"
5268What OTHER motives had the defendants at the bar had?
5268What are the celebrated cases-- the trials that attract the attention and interest of the public?
5268What are you doing?
5268What can be done about it?
5268What did these judges mean by know?
5268What does his liberty amount to or his much- vaunted legal rights if the city is to be made safe?
5268What does the ordinary juryman mean by it?
5268What does the reader mean by know?
5268What generally occurs?
5268What good does the presumption of innocence, so called, do for the miserable Robinson?
5268What is the use?
5268What must have been the effect on the court officers, the witnesses, the defendants out on bail, the complainants, the spectators?
5268What then?
5268What was the use of trying to do good work any longer?
5268Where were they now-- and why did they kill-- yes, why DID they?
5268Where will you seek it?
5268Who shall say how many embryonic law- breakers took courage at the story and started upon an experimental attempt at crime?
5268Why Do Men Kill?
5268Why did he?
5268Why do men drink?
5268Why do men eat?
5268Why do men love?
5268Why not?
5268Why should he have the privilege of silence?
5268Why, may I ask?
5268Why, the jury argued, should the lawyer object unless the making of such a forgery were in fact an easy matter?
5268Would drink and women account for seventy- five per cent?
5268Yes, better for whom?
5268Yet how far does the element of sex defeat the ends of justice?
5268Yet who shall say that, in spite of the fact that it is a theoretic outrage upon liberty, this cleaning out of the city is not highly desirable?
5268Yet why does not some apostle of liberty raise his voice and cry aloud concerning the wrong that has been done?
5268You shake your head?
5268yells the prosecutor, jumping to his feet and shaking his fist at him,"do you want to be taken for a d-- n liar?
26446Clark''s negro?
26446Clark''s?
26446Master''s Death?
26446Phoebe more Poison?
26446Rand''s Cato for any Poison?
26446_ Ansr._ Yes, and that was it which I gave to Phillis_ Quest._ When did you go over to get the last Poison?
26446_ Answr._ I[t?]
26446_ Answr._ There was a White Powder in the Vial, which Sunk to the Bottom of it.--_ Quest._ Do you know who put the Powder into the Vial?
26446_ Q._ What Doctor?
26446_ Q._ What did you do with them?
26446_ Q._ What sort of Poison was that?
26446_ Q._ What was he poisoned with?
26446_ Q._ When& where did Robbin give you that Powder?
26446_ Q:_ Were they together when they told you So?
26446_ Qu._ Did Robbin give you any Directions how to use that Powder, and tell you what Effect it would have?
26446_ Qu._ Did you give her the whole of the Powder you had of Robbin the first Time?
26446_ Qu._ Did you pay Robbin any Thing for these Powders?
26446_ Qu._ Did you tell her how she must use the Powder?
26446_ Qu._ Did you tell her what was in the Paper?
26446_ Qu._ Do you know whether she used that Powder or any Part of it?
26446_ Qu._ How long ago was it Since Robbin gave you the first of these Powders?
26446_ Qu._ How long before was it?
26446_ Qu._ How many Times had you such Powder of Robbin?
26446_ Qu._ Was any Body there when you gave it to her?
26446_ Qu._ Was it before Robbin& you were together at John Harris ye Potters Work house?
26446_ Qu._ Was there any Person present with you when Robbin gave you that Powder?
26446_ Qu._ What did Robbin give you these Powders for?
26446_ Qu._ What did she do with it?
26446_ Qu._ What did she do with it?
26446_ Qu._ What did she tell you to get?
26446_ Qu._ When was the last Time you had any such Powder of him?
26446_ Qu._ When& where did you give Phoebe the first Paper of that Powder?
26446_ Qu._ When& where did you give that Paper of Powder to Phillis?
26446_ Qu._ Where was it you had this last Powder of him, and what was it in?
26446_ Qu._ Who did you give the Second Paper of Powder to?
26446_ Qu:_ How was your Master poisoned with these Powders?
26446_ Qu:_ When did they tell you this?
26446_ Quest._ After you had parted with him when you came thro''the Entry, did you call him back?
26446_ Quest._ Are you a Servant or Freeman?
26446_ Quest._ Did Robbin know of it?
26446_ Quest._ Did any body see you take it from her?
26446_ Quest._ Did he ever afterwards propose the poisoning his sd Master?
26446_ Quest._ Did you ever apply to any body else, besides Robbin for Poison?
26446_ Quest._ Did you ever ask Carr at any other Time for Poison?
26446_ Quest._ Did you get her any more of Robbin?
26446_ Quest._ Did you never ask him for something to Poison or kill a Dog?
26446_ Quest._ Did you put all that Powder into the Vial?
26446_ Quest._ Did you see Robbin at Charlstown in the Time of your master''s sickness or about the Time of his Death?
26446_ Quest._ Did you see him eat that Chocalate?
26446_ Quest._ Did you tell Carr that Phoebe sent you for that Poison you applyed to him for?
26446_ Quest._ Did you then go with them to the Ferry or nearer to it than your master''s House?
26446_ Quest._ Did your master drink the Infusion after that water was so pour''d in?
26446_ Quest._ Did your master that Day forbid Mrs Shearman''s letting you have any more Drink?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know any Thing more of your master''s being poisoned than you have before related?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know he was poisoned?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know how your Master''s Work house that was burnt down came on Fire?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know of any Copperas or Green stuff being provided for that Purpose?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know of any Cushoe nuts being procured for that Purpose?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know of any Proposal made of poisoning your master?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know of any more Powder being got to give to your master?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know of any other Poison prepar''d for, or given to your Master?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know that any of the Water that was in the Vial after you put this last Powder in was given to your Master?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know that any other Poison besides the Potter''s Lead was given to your sd master?
26446_ Quest._ Do you know where Mark got that Powder which he gave to you?
26446_ Quest._ Had you any Discourse with Robbin in private or between you and him alone that Day?
26446_ Quest._ Had your Master any of that Water which was put into the said Vial given to him?
26446_ Quest._ How came it on fire?
26446_ Quest._ How came that Viall buried near your Forge in the Black- Smith''s Shop, that you told Mr. Kettell of, and he found there?
26446_ Quest._ How did you Set your Master''s Work House on fire?
26446_ Quest._ How do you know it?
26446_ Quest._ How do you know that Mark had that Powder of Robbin?
26446_ Quest._ How do you know that Mark put any of the Potter''s Lead into the Sagoe?
26446_ Quest._ How do you know that Phoebe poured any of the poisoned Water out of the Vial into your Master''s Chocalate?
26446_ Quest._ How do you know that, that Water was Poison?
26446_ Quest._ How long was you his Servant?
26446_ Quest._ How long was you his servant?
26446_ Quest._ How long was you with Robbin at Mr. Harris''s Work house?
26446_ Quest._ How many Times was any of that Water, which was in the Vial aforesd., put into your master''s victuals?
26446_ Quest._ How much Powder was there in the Paper?
26446_ Quest._ How was it given to him?
26446_ Quest._ Was any Body concern''d in the burning the Work house besides Mark and you?
26446_ Quest._ Was it before or after your Master eat that Chocalate that the poison''d Water was pour''d into, that She told you so?
26446_ Quest._ Was there no Discourse had between you Phoebe& Phillis about getting more Poison, after you had the first, of Robbin?
26446_ Quest._ Was you ever bit by a Dog?
26446_ Quest._ What Reason have you to be satisfyed it was Robbin?
26446_ Quest._ What Sort of Powder was it that Mark gave You?
26446_ Quest._ What did he do with it?
26446_ Quest._ What did you do with that Powder which Mark gave you?
26446_ Quest._ What did you get that Lead for?
26446_ Quest._ What is your name?
26446_ Quest._ What was he poisoned with?
26446_ Quest._ What was it in?
26446_ Quest._ What was it?
26446_ Quest._ What was the Powder in when Phoebe gave it you?
26446_ Quest._ When did she tell you so?
26446_ Quest._ When did you bury it there?
26446_ Quest._ When did you get that powder''d Lead of Essex?
26446_ Quest._ When was it that Mark first proposed the poisoning his Master?
26446_ Quest._ When was the first Time?
26446_ Quest._ Where did you all go after you drank the Toddy?
26446_ Quest._ Where did you drink the Toddy?
26446_ Quest._ Where did you get that Powder?
26446_ Quest._ Where did you get that Vial?
26446_ Quest._ Where was Phoebe& Mark when you put the Coal of Fire into the Shavings?
26446_ Quest._ Where was the Vial when you talked with Phoebe as aforesd?
26446_ Quest._ Who first proposed the Setting the Workhouse on fire?
26446_ Quest._ Who got this last Powder?
26446_ Quest._ Who pour''d it into his barly Drink?
26446_ Quest._ Who pour''d the Water out of the Vial into the Infusion?
26446_ Quest._ Who poured the Water out of the sd Vial into the Chocalate?
26446_ Quest._ Who put the Second Powder into the Vial?
26446_ Quest._ Who put the Shavings there?
26446_ Quest._ Who was it that first contrived the poisoning your Master Codman?
26446_ Quest._ Why did you bury the Vial before you called Pompy?
26446_ Quest._ Why did you not tell your Master or some of the Family that Phoebe had poisoned the Chocalate, and thereby prevent your Master''s eating it?
26446_ Quest._ Why did you, when Phoebe pour''d Some of the Water out of the Vial into the Chocalate tell her,"her hand was heavy?"
26446_ Quest._ what black Lead is it you mean?
26446_ Questn._ Do you know of what sickness your said master died?
26446_ Questn._ Have you lately had any Potters powder''d Lead by you or in your Possession?
26446_ Quet._ Do you know that any Part of that Lead you had of Essex or any Lead like unto it was given to your master or put into his Victuals or Drink?
26446_ Quet._ What Reason did Mark give for poisoning his Master?
26446and what reason was given for doing it?
26446following--_ Questn._ Was Mr. John Codman late of Charlstown de[=c]d, your Master?
26446master dyed to think that the Powders you had of Robbin were given to your master or that he was poison''d therewith?
26446master was poisoned with that Lead?
26446of Robbin the Second Time?
26446or shew it to any body?
26446or what Effect it would have?
26446that askt for Mark was Robbin or not?
38103You have?
38103_ Can the mind conceive of more horrid blasphemy?_Is not that true?
38103_ Can the mind conceive of more horrid blasphemy?_Is not that true?
38103_ Or the word of God,--_What is that?
38103_ The bible- God says that his people made him jealous"Provoked him to anger._Is that true?
38103All at once there arose a man called Martin Luther, and what did the dear old Catholics think?
38103And are they the"merciful"who when some man endeavors to answer their argument, put him in the penitentiary?
38103And do you know that we ought to feel under the greatest obligation to men who have fought the prevailing notions of their day?
38103And has a man that right?
38103And how are you going to keep from having more?
38103And is it possible that a work written by an infinite being has to be protected by a legislature?
38103And suppose he does not believe in any bible whatever?
38103And what does that mean?
38103And what else says the defendant?
38103And what else?
38103And what else?
38103And what has been the result?
38103And what is it to reap that field?
38103And what of that?
38103And wherever such laws have been enforced, have the people been friends?
38103And why?
38103And why?
38103Any harm in saying that?
38103Are they holy?
38103Are we any nearer thinking alike to- day than we were then?
38103Are we not all children of the same Mother?
38103Are we not all compelled to think, whether we wish to or not?
38103Can any man have the egotism to say that he has found it all out?
38103Can anything be plainer-- anything more forcibly stated?
38103Can you help thinking as you do?
38103Can you imagine an infinitely good God sending a man to hell because he did not believe the bear story?
38103Could it now, by any possibility, make a man a good father, a good husband, a good citizen?
38103Could you pour contempt on Shakespeare by saying that his mother was a woman,--by saying that he was once a poor crying little helpless child?
38103Did anybody ever dream of passing a law to protect Shakespeare from being laughed at?
38103Did anybody ever think of such a thing?
38103Did anybody ever want any legislative enactment to keep people from holding Robert Burns in contempt?
38103Did he know he would drown them when he made them?
38103Did he know they ought to be drowned when they were made?
38103Did he not, if the bible is true, drown the people?
38103Did the prosecution have the courage to attack his reputation?
38103Did they succeed?
38103Did you ever know of a more despicable fraud practiced by one brother on another than Jacob practiced on Esau?
38103Do you believe that?
38103Do you know that all the mechanics that ever lived-- take the best ones-- cannot make two clocks that will run exactly alike one hour, one minute?
38103Do you not see what the effect will be?
38103Does he help the poor?
38103Does he like to lock somebody up in the penitentiary because he has the power of the moment?
38103Does he need assistance from New Jersey?
38103Does he pay his debts?
38103Does he tell the truth?
38103Does he want to crush his fellow citizens?
38103Does he wish to use it as a despot, or as a philanthropist-- like a devil, or like a man?
38103Does it make any difference whether you believe it or not?
38103Does it, or does it not?
38103Does that cast any scorn or contempt upon him?
38103Does the bible describe God as having drowned the whole world with the exception of eight people?
38103For what sum of money, for what amount of wealth, would the world have the science of Astronomy expunged from the brain of man?
38103Gentlemen, does not that show the need of more missionaries?
38103Had they the public weal at heart, or were they simply endeavoring to be revenged upon this defendant?
38103Has he got a heart that melts when he hears grief''s story?
38103Has he the right to be sincere?
38103Has he the right to say it, if he believes it?
38103Has he the right to show that Martin Luther said he did not believe there was one solitary word of gospel in the Epistle to the Romans?
38103Has he the right to show that some of these books were not written till nearly two hundred years afterwards?
38103Has he the right to show that the book of Revelation got into the canon by one vote, and one only?
38103Has he the right to show that there were twenty- eight books called"The Books of the Hebrews?"
38103Has he the right to show that they passed in convention upon what books they would put in and what they would not?
38103Has he the right to show that?
38103Have you a right to think about it at all?
38103Have you not the right to read, to observe, to investigate-- and when you have so read and so investigated, have you not the right to reap that field?
38103Have you produced a new argument?
38103He goes so far as to say, that"_ He was found staring foolishly at his own little toes._"And why not?
38103Honestly-- what do you think they would say?
38103How are you going to judge him?
38103How did they come to crucify him?
38103How did they happen to have it, and how did you happen to be deprived of it?
38103How do you know what such men are mentioned for?
38103How does he use power?
38103How else?
38103How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself?
38103I do not say whether this is true or not, but has a man the right to say it if he believes it?
38103I have given you my definition of blasphemy, and now the question arises, what is worship?
38103If God be infinitely good and wise and powerful, is it possible he is afraid of anything?
38103If it is true, is it blasphemous?
38103If others claim the right, where did they get it?
38103If this statute is constitutional, why has it been allowed to sleep for all these years?
38103If what the defendant has said is blasphemy under this statute then the question arises, is the statute in accordance with the Constitution?
38103If you have the right to work with your hands and to gather the harvest for yourself and your children, have you not a right to cultivate your brain?
38103Is a man to be sent to the penitentiary for that?
38103Is any statute needed to keep Euclid from being laughed at in this neighborhood?
38103Is he convinced?
38103Is it any harm to speak of it?
38103Is it blasphemous to deny that God commanded his children to murder each other?
38103Is it blasphemous to say that he was benevolent, merciful and just?
38103Is it blasphemy to ask that question?
38103Is it blasphemy to deny that a God of infinite love gave such commandments?
38103Is it blasphemy to quote from the"Sacred Scriptures?"
38103Is it blasphemy to say that Solomon was not a virtuous man, or that David was an adulterer?
38103Is it blasphemy to say that you do not like a hypocrite, a murderer, or a thief, because his name is in the bible?
38103Is it blasphemy to tell the truth and to say exactly what David was?
38103Is it likely that a being of infinite wisdom would deliberately do what he knew he must undo?
38103Is it necessary to believe that?
38103Is it possible that Christians will break the peace?
38103Is it possible that a book can not be written by a God so that it will not excite the laughter of the human race?
38103Is it possible that a good and wise God, knowing that he was going to drown them, made millions of people?
38103Is it possible that they will violate the law?
38103Is it probable that Christians will congregate together and make a mob, simply because a man has given an opinion against their religion?
38103Is not that an absurd and foolish statute?
38103Is such a denial calculated to pour contempt and scorn upon the God of the Orthodox?
38103Is that of any importance?
38103Is that the Christian religion?
38103Is that the Christian religion?
38103Is that the doctrine?
38103Is that the law?
38103Is the god dead?
38103Is there any blasphemy about that?
38103Is there any evidence-- has there been any-- to show that the defendant was not absolutely candid in the expression of his opinions?
38103Is there anything blasphemous in that?
38103Is there anything in this that is blasphemous?
38103Is there one particle of evidence tending to show that he is not a perfectly honest and sincere man?
38103Is this blasphemy?
38103Is this law constitutional, or is it simply an old statute that fell asleep, that was forgotten, that people simply failed to repeal?
38103Is this statute in harmony with that part of the Constitution of 1844 which says:"The liberty of speech shall not be abridged?"
38103Must a man be honest?
38103Now gentlemen, what is blasphemy?
38103Now how should we treat a new thought?
38103Now is it not a fact that the Old Testament does uphold polygamy?
38103Now is there any blasphemy in saying that the bible is true?
38103Now what has a man the right to say about that?
38103Ought I to clap my hand over my mouth and start for another State, and the minute I got over the line say,"It is not true, It is not true?"
38103Ought an honest man to be sent to the penitentiary for simply telling the truth?
38103Should you express that thought?
38103Suppose a man believes that, and practices it, does it make any difference whether he believes in the flood or not?
38103Suppose the defendant in this case were guilty of something like that?
38103The defendant is also charged with having said that"_ God cried and screamed._"Why not?
38103The first question for you, gentlemen, to decide in this case is: Is this statute constitutional?
38103The songs of Burns will be sung as long as there is love in the human heart Do we need to protect him from ridicule by a statute?
38103Then what has happened?
38103Then what have they cursed?
38103Then what would the Turks do?
38103Then what would the Turks say?
38103They would put the Morristown missionary in jail, and he would send home word, and then what would the people of Morris- town say?
38103Was he a good man?
38103Was not the world exactly as God made it?
38103Well what is it?
38103Well, the great question about that is, is it true?
38103Well, what is the Christian religion?
38103Were most of them as guilty of blasphemy as is the defendant in this case?
38103Were they actuated by good and noble motives?
38103Were they willing to disgrace the State, in order that they might punish him?
38103What did he make them for?
38103What does it mean?
38103What does it mean?
38103What else did the savage suppose?
38103What for?
38103What harm can come from an honest interchange of thought?
38103What if God did cry?
38103What is blasphemy?
38103What is holy?
38103What is prayer?
38103What is real blasphemy?
38103What is real religion?
38103What is sacred?
38103What is the use of telling a falsehood about it?
38103What is their religion?
38103What of it?
38103What right has he?
38103What was the spirit of our government at that time?
38103What were the reasons given?
38103What were their opinions?
38103What would I do?
38103What would I not give for a picture of Shakespeare as a babe,--a picture that was a likeness,--rocked by his mother?
38103When some poor mother is found wandering in the street with a babe at her breast, does he quote Scripture, or hunt for his pocket- book?
38103Where did a church or a nation get that right?
38103Where would we have been if authority had always triumphed?
38103Where would we have been if such statutes had always been carried out?
38103Where, then, is the blasphemy in saying so?
38103Whether a man built an ark or not-- does that make the slightest difference?
38103Who are the men who are leading the race upward and shedding light in the intellectual world?
38103Who is a worshipper?
38103Who is to blame?
38103Who obtained this indictment?
38103Who were they?
38103Why did he make your brain so that you could not by any possibility be a Methodist?
38103Why did he make yours so that you could not be a Catholic?
38103Why did he not do so?
38103Why has it been allowed to slumber?
38103Why kick him?
38103Why not?
38103Why not?
38103Why should not each human being have the right, so far as thought and its expression are concerned, of all the world?
38103Why should we fear our fellow- men?
38103Why, whoever did, since the poor man, or the poor God, was crucified?
38103Why?
38103Why?
38103Why?
38103Why?
38103Why?
38103Will they succeed?
38103You can hardly imagine that there was a time when the same kind of men that made this law said to another man:"You say this world is round?"
38103You may not agree with these men-- and what does that prove?
38103You say:"Take a chair; are you thirsty, are you hungry, will you not break bread with me?"
38103You will get your revenge on him through all eternity-- is not that enough?
40861Shall the clause allowing each State one vote in the 2^d branch, stand as part of the Report,?
40861Suppose the first branch granted money, may not the second branch, from state views, counteract the first? 40861 Will the representatives of a state forget state interests?
408612. was it probable that the States would adopt& ratify a scheme, which they had never authorized us to propose?
40861A House of Nobles was essential to such a Gov^t could these be created by a breath, or by a stroke of the pen?
40861A discretion must be left on one side or the other?
40861Again What use may be made of such a privilege in case of great emergency?
40861And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?
40861And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
40861And is it not a clear principle that in a free Gov^t those who are to be the objects of a Gov^t ought to influence the operations of it?
40861Are gentlemen in earnest when they suppose that this exclusion will prevent the first characters from coming forward?
40861Are not the Citizens of Pen^a equal to those of N. Jersey?
40861Are not the large States evidently seeking to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the small?
40861Are the distinction of Patrician& Plebeian known among us?
40861Are the large States less attached to their existence more likely to commit suicide, than the small?
40861Are the people of the three large States more aristocratic than those of the small ones?
40861Are they admitted as Citizens?
40861Are they efficient States?
40861Are they in the hands of the few who may be called rich; in the possession of less than a hundred citizens?
40861Are we not struck at seeing the luxury and venality which has already crept in among us?
40861Are we to suspend the business until the deputies arrive?
40861Ask any man if he confides in Cong^s if he confides in the State of Pen^a if he will lend his money or enter into contract?
40861Besides shall the best, the most able, the most virtuous citizens not be permitted to hold offices?
40861Besides, How can it be thought that the proposed negative can be exercised?
40861But are there any exceptions of this sort to the Articles of Confederation?
40861But does it follow that an equality of votes is necessary for the purpose?
40861But is this a Republican Gov^t, it will be asked?
40861But reverse the case, and leave the whole at the mercy of each part, and will not the general interest be continually sacrificed to local interests?
40861But whatever might have been y^e cause, was not in effect the vote of one State doubled, and the influence of another increased by it?
40861But why so?
40861But will it be more so in one plan than the other?
40861But will such a plan be adopted out of doors?
40861By the vote already taken, will not the temper of the state legislatures transfuse itself into the Senate?
40861Can the military habits& manners of Sparta be resembled to our habits& manners?
40861Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government?
40861Can you always rely on the patriotism of the members?
40861Could the national resources, if exerted to the utmost enforce a national decree ag^{st} Mass^{ts} abetted perhaps by several of her neighbours?
40861Did any such common interest exist?
40861Do gentlemen mean to pave the way to hereditary Monarchy?
40861Do the people at large complain of Cong^s?
40861Do they flatter themselves that the people will ever consent to such an innovation?
40861Do we create a free government?"
40861Does the scheme of N. Jersey produce this effect?
40861Does this doctrine result from the nature of compacts?
40861From the Monied interest?
40861From the landed interest?
40861Give the large States an influence in proportion to their magnitude, and what will be the consequence?
40861Has Holland or Switzerland ever complained of the equality of the states which compose their respective confederacies?
40861Has a man in Virg^a a number of votes in proportion to the number of his slaves?
40861Has it less dignity?
40861Has it not been the real or supposed interest of the major number?
40861Has not Mass^{ts}, notwithstanding, the most powerful member of the Union, already raised a body of troops?
40861Have not the boroughs however held fast their constitutional rights?
40861Have they not been dictated by interest, by ambition?
40861He asks M^r S. whether the State at this time dare impose& collect a tax on y^e people?
40861His question was how is the power of the 1^{st} branch increased or that of the 2^d diminished by giving the proposed privilege to the former?
40861How can these be filled?
40861How could this be taken from them by a_ legislative_ ratification only?
40861How is the danger in all cases of interested coalitions to oppress the minority to be guarded ag^{st}?
40861How is this danger to be guarded ag^{st} on the republican principles?
40861How strongly will it feel its importance and self- sufficiency?
40861If a proportional representation be right, why do we not vote so here?
40861If as wealth, then why is no other wealth but slaves included?
40861If danger be apprehended from the Executive what a left- handed way is this of obviating it?
40861If such a meeting of the people was actually to take place, would the slaves vote?
40861If the Representatives of the people would be bound by the ties he had mentioned, what need was there of a Senate?
40861In return he would ask will the people adopt the other plan?
40861In the present deranged State of our finances can so expensive a System be seriously thought of?
40861Is a real& fair majority, the natural hot- bed of aristocracy?
40861Is it a novel thing that the few should have a check on the many?
40861Is it because the laws are to operate immediately on their persons& properties?
40861Is it because the representatives are chosen by the people themselves?
40861Is it because, the larger have more at stake than the smaller?
40861Is it conceivable that there will be leisure for such a task?
40861Is it for_ men_, or for the imaginary beings called_ States_?
40861Is it from an internal reform of their Gov^{ts}?
40861Is it not the case in the British Constitution the wisdom of which so many gentlemen have united in applauding?
40861Is it to spring from commerce?
40861Is she not now augmenting them, without having even deigned to apprise Cong^s of Her intention?
40861Is the National Legislature too to sit continually in order to revise the laws of the States?
40861Is the Representation there less unequal?
40861Is the old confederation dissolved, because some of the states wish a new confederation?"
40861Is then the object of the Convention likely to be accomplished in this way?
40861Is there no danger of a Legislative despotism?
40861Is there no difference of interests, no rivalship of commerce, of manufactures?
40861M^r Wilson, the question is shall the members of the 2^d branch be chosen by the Legislatures of the States?
40861May not a Legislature filled by the State Legislatures operate on the people who chuse the State Legislatures?
40861Might it not, on the other side be asked how the former was to be secured ag^{st} the latter?
40861Might not such a mode of election be devised among ourselves as will defend the community ag^{st} these effects in any dangerous degree?
40861On Question shall the words stand as part of the Report?
40861Ought this merit to be made a disqualification?
40861Shall all the laws of the States be sent up to the Gen^l Legislature before they shall be permitted to operate?
40861Shall we effect the cure by establishing an equality of votes as is proposed?
40861Shall we leave the States alone unprovided with the means for this purpose?
40861Should the Executive Magistrate be taken from one of the large States would not the other two be thereby thrown into the scale with the other States?
40861States at present groan?
40861Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by?
40861The Swiss cantons have scarce any union at all, and have been more than once at war with one another.--How then are all these evils to be avoided?
40861The first three or four years we might go on well enough; but what would be the case afterwards?
40861The great question is what provision shall we make for the happiness of our Country?
40861The true question was in what mode the best choice w^d be made?
40861There being 5 ays, 4 noes,& 1 div^d, a question was asked whether a majority had voted in the Affirmative?
40861They may even be under some foreign influence; are they in such case to participate in the negative on the will of the other States?
40861To what standard will you resort?
40861Under these ideas can it be expected that the people can approve the Virginia plan?
40861Was a Combination to be apprehended from the mere circumstance of equality of size?
40861Was not this remark as applicable to one branch of the Representation as to the other?
40861Was such a remedy eligible?
40861Were the large States formidable_ singly_ to their smaller neighbours?
40861What Results?
40861What danger is there that the whole will unnecessarily sacrifice a part?
40861What has been the consequence?
40861What has been the source of those unjust laws complained of among ourselves?
40861What inducements can be offered that will suffice?
40861What is the condition of the lesser states in the German Confederacy?
40861What is the government now forming, over states or persons?
40861What is the state of things in the lax system of the Dutch Confederacy?
40861What is the true principle of Representation?
40861What is this object?
40861What is to be the check in the Senate?
40861What motives are to restrain them?
40861What must be the consequence?
40861What of a Revisionary power?
40861What qualities are necessary to constitute a check in this case?
40861What reason can be assigned why the same rule of representation s^d not prevail in the 2^d branch as in the 1^{st}.?
40861What remedy then?
40861What then is to be done?
40861What too is to become of our treaties-- what of our foreign debts, what of our domestic?
40861What were the consequences?, first, enmity on our part, then actual separation.
40861When the Tribunitial power had levelled the boundary between the_ patricians_&_ plebeians_, what followed?
40861Whence does this proceed?
40861Whence then is the national revenue to be drawn?
40861Whence then the danger of aristocracy from their influence?
40861Whence then the danger of monarchy?
40861Where are the sources from whence it is to flow?
40861Where do the people look at present for relief from the evils of which they complain?
40861Where is the difference, in which branch it begins, if both must concur, in the end?
40861Who then are to hold them?
40861Why are Counties of the Same States represented in proportion to their numbers?
40861Why s^d a Nat^l Gov^t be unpopular?
40861Why was America so justly apprehensive of Parliamentary injustice?
40861Why was it determined that the Judges should not hold their places by such a tenure?
40861Why?
40861Why?
40861Why?
40861Will a Citizen of_ Deleware_ be degraded by becoming a Citizen of the_ United States_?
40861Will any one say this would ever be agreed to?
40861Will it be the British Gov^t?
40861Will it prevent encroachments on the federal authority?
40861Will it prevent the violations of the law of nations& of Treaties which if not prevented must involve us in the calamities of foreign wars?
40861Will it prevent trespasses of the States on each other?
40861Will it secure a good internal legislation& administration to the particular States?
40861Will it secure the internal tranquillity of the States themselves?
40861Will not our Constituents say?
40861Will not the same motives operate in America as elsewhere?
40861Will our Executive be able to apply such a remedy?
40861Will our honest Constituents be satisfied with metaphysical distinctions?
40861Will she be represented in proportion to this amount?
40861Will the members of the General Legislature be competent Judges?
40861Will the militia march from one State to another, in order to collect the arrears of taxes from the delinquent members of the Republic?
40861Will they maintain an army for this purpose?
40861Will they, ought they to be satisfied with being told, that the one- third compose the greater number of States?
40861Would 30 or 40, million of people submit their fortunes into the hands of a few thousands?
40861Would American rights& interests have been safe under an authority thus constituted?
40861Would she not be at the mercy of Pennsylvania?
40861Would such a scheme be practicable?
40861[ A][ A] Quere,?
40861and which so far exceeded what they regarded as sufficient?
40861are they admitted as property?
40861does it afford any substantial remedy whatever?
40861does it arise from any particular stipulation in the articles of Confederation?
40861does it require 150 of the former to balance 50 of the latter?
40861or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?
40861then why are they not admitted on an equality with White Citizens?
40861then why is not other property admitted into the computation?
40861was it practicable?
40861will each Citizen enjoy under it less liberty or protection?
40861will it not be most safely lodged on the side of the Nat^l Gov^t?
36591And was it that, which caused such roars and roars of laughter from the Trustees''room after I left?
36591And we would also venture to inquire, what is the married woman''s protection under such a Statute law? 36591 But does not the constitution defend the right of religious tolerance to all American citizens?"
36591Can I replevy it as stolen property?
36591Could you forgive Mr. Packard, and live with him again as his wife?
36591Did they?
36591Do you think, Mrs. Packard, that your husband really believes you are an insane person?
36591Husband,said I,"have not I a right to my opinion?"
36591In what estimation is Mr. Packard held in the region where these scenes were enacted?
36591Is he in this city?
36591Is this so? 36591 O, husband,"said I,"you have allowed me no chance for my secret devotions this morning, ca n''t I be allowed this one last request?"
36591Shall I add anything to it; that is, what I said to the Trustees, and so forth?
36591Then,said I,"can I bear such trials as these without God''s help?
36591What are your opinions, Mrs. Packard, which have caused all this rupture in your once happy family?
36591What do you fear he will do?
36591What does your printer say about it?
36591Why not? 36591 Why, Mrs. Packard, do you not get a divorce?"
36591Why, Mrs. Packard, what protection do you need? 36591 Why?"
36591( One gentleman in the crowd turned to his wife and said,"Wife, were you ever out of bread, and had to make biscuit for dinner?
36591*** And has God less power to execute his kind plans than I have?
36591: religions toleration?
36591Abandon her, turn her out upon the world without a morsel of bread, and no home?
36591And again, how could they imagine, that a man would wish to have the reputation of having an insane wife, when he had not?
36591And can one be prosecuted for doing a legal act?
36591And can you blame me for this manifestation of my heart sympathy for my imprisoned sisters?
36591And could the good and kind Mr. Packard neglect even his poor afflicted wife?
36591And do n''t you think he is changing as fast as we can expect, considering his conservative organization?
36591And do we not practically deny it, when we endorse the revolting doctrine of endless punishment?
36591And does not this legalized despotism put our souls in jeopardy, as well as our bodies, and our children?
36591And is a stagnant, torpid, and retrogressive state of mentality, a natural or an unnatural condition-- a sane, or an insane state?
36591And is not that man a coward who can not stand before such artillery?
36591And is not this help given us in answer to our own prayers?
36591And is not this our petition for protection founded in justice and humanity?
36591And must I?
36591And shall I repine because I am called insane for the same reason?
36591And so would any lady, would they not?
36591And whose will was to be my guide, my husband''s will, or God''s will?
36591And why should she not be legally protected from them as well as a man?
36591Are not God''s simple, common sense teachings, authority enough for our opinions?
36591Are you authorized to stop a man from doing a_ legal_ act?"
36591But how could the Superintendent of the Insane Hospital be a party to so great a wrong?
36591But how could this be done in my penniless condition?
36591But how long do you think I had better make my visit?"
36591But it is so tedious for me to copy anything, how would it do to get a few handbills or tracts printed, and send them where we please?"
36591But just as she was leaving the house, the Doctor asked her, if she had any letter from Mrs. Packard to her children with her?
36591But one thing more I wish your advice about; how can I keep the money I get for my book from Mr. Packard, the legal owner of it?"
36591But where could the$ 3000.00 I have paid out for the expense of printing and circulating these books have been obtained?
36591But you can get along without me, ca n''t you?
36591But, as my Saviour said,"the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?"
36591But, in my opinion, Dr. McFarland, does not know a sane from an insane person; or else, why does he keep so many in that Asylum, as sane as himself?
36591Can I ever believe that God loves his children less than I do mine?
36591Can I not truly say my train of thought was engineered by the"Lightning Express?"
36591Can facts be transmuted into fiction by the simple assertion of one man?
36591Can she not even think her own thoughts, and speak her own words, unless her thoughts and expressions harmonize with those of her husband?
36591Can testimony, however abundant, change this truth into a falsehood?
36591Could Christ take upon himself our nature, and yet know no sin, if our natures are necessarily sinful?
36591Could these defenceless States resort to any other means of self- defence from the usurpation of the powerful States than that of secession?
36591Did not"wise men"make the laws, as he often used to assert they did?
36591Did you give up, and neglect your duties?
36591Did you injure any one?
36591Did you tear your clothes, and destroy your things?
36591Do not I always give you an exact account of every cent I spend?
36591Do you think she would have come out unharmed?
36591Does an upright course seek or desire concealment?
36591For what is that love worth, that ca n''t defend its friend in adversity?
36591Forgive us, wo n''t you, for our cruel neglect?"
36591Gentlemen, we married women need emancipation; and will you not be the pioneer State in our Union, in woman''s emancipation?
36591Has a married woman no identity in Statute Book of Illinois?"
36591Has a married woman no rights at all?
36591Have I ever abused this trust?
36591Have we, on this account, any reason or right to call him insane?
36591He then asked be"Have you had anything from Mrs. Packard with you?"
36591He would often say to me,"Mrs. Packard, who are your friends?
36591How was his sympathy manifested?)
36591I say, why?
36591I then said to my printer, supposing he should come with money, and offer to buy the manuscript, what then?"
36591If Mr. Packard_ believed_ his wife to be hopelessly_ insane_, why did he abandon her?
36591If so, why do they not look after you?"
36591Is activity and progression in knowledge and intelligence, an indication of a sane, natural condition, or is it an unnatural, insane indication?
36591Is he not a monomaniac?
36591Is her conscience, and her reason, and her thoughts, all lost in him?
36591Is it because a woman has no individuality, after she is joined to a man?
36591Is not my persecutor guiltless in this matter?
36591Is not this a pretty statute to be incorporated into our laws no more than thirteen years ago?
36591Is that kind of treatment which causes insanity the best adapted to cure insanity?
36591Is the wrong covered up?
36591Is this the way to treat a companion afflicted with insanity?
36591May I not be allowed, husband, to ask this favor of God_ alone_ in my room, before being thus exiled from it?"
36591May I now bring it up?
36591Mrs. Fisher, what can have tempted us ever to doubt this glorious truth?
36591Mrs. Lovel, one of the patients, replied,"Mrs. De La Hay, did you ever have a straight jacket on yourself?"
36591Now I would like to ask Dr. McFarland, where are to be found these"bonds of generous sympathy"to which he refers?
36591Now comes the question: Is this a crime for which I ought to be divorced from all the comforts and privileges of my own dear home?
36591Now what shall I do?
36591Now, I ask, how many men would venture to get married under these laws?
36591Now, I ask, is this so?
36591Now, if the course he has taken with me is not insanity-- that is, an unreasonable course, I ask, what is insanity?
36591Now, what could he do with twelve more such boxes?
36591Or, in other words, is that kind of treatment which caused their insanity the best adapted to cure their insanity?
36591Shall this vow be a witness against me, or shall it not?
36591Should I be appropriating an unreasonable share of time, as a pupil, Mr. Smith, to occupy four minutes of your time in reading them?
36591The great question with me is, how can I soonest earn the$ 2,500.00 necessary to print it with?
36591The question may be asked, how this could happen, especially in Northern Illinois?
36591The questions are often asked me,"Why were you sent here?
36591The time- worn wigs, with error gray, Their dusty locks with pale dismay, Shall shake in vain in wild despair, To see their prostrate castles, where?
36591The wise shall laugh-- the foolish cry-- Both wise and foolish virgins, why?
36591Was it not that we had trained them to respect paternal authority?
36591Was there ever such a case of heartlessness?
36591Well, what did the"feelings"of the community have to do with the court and jury?
36591What dangers do you apprehend?"
36591What did you do that made your friends treat such a good woman so?"
36591What have''the rulers in the church''done about the persecution?
36591What more could he have had if the witness had been present?
36591What shall I do, Doctor?"
36591Why ca n''t the inalienable rights of the lawful wife be_ as much_ respected as those of the open prostitute?
36591Why ca n''t the wife steal all the husband has?
36591Why is this?
36591Why is this?
36591Why not confine the husband at the instance of the wife, as well as the wife at the instance of the husband?
36591Why not?
36591Why was this struggle with our consciences?
36591Will you protect me here?"
36591With shame I ask the question, does not our government here offer a premium on infidelity?
36591Wo n''t you please stop this robbery of our inalienable right to our own property, by some law, dictated by some of your noble, manly hearts?
36591Would he give a crazy woman money to go to the city, and make purchases for herself?
36591Would not this state of the Union endanger the rights of the defenceless ones?
36591Would they not be tempted to ignore the marriage laws of our woman government altogether?
36591Would you have set down in the clothes you had worked in?
36591Yes, Mr. Packard has only treated me as he said the laws of Illinois allowed him to do, and how can he be blamed then?
36591You know I have_ always_ been a true and loving wife to you, and how can you treat me so?"
36591_ Ques._ And did you think that was an evidence of insanity?
36591_ Ques._ Are you much of a theologian?
36591_ Ques._ Did she also include you?
36591_ Ques._ Did she not show more familiarity with the subject of religion and the questions of theology, than you had with these subjects?
36591_ Ques._ Do you believe Mrs. Packard was insane, and is insane?
36591_ Ques._ Do you believe literally that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, and remained in its belly three days and was then cast up?
36591_ Ques._ He had been charging her with insanity, had he not, at the table?
36591_ Ques._ She called Mr. Packard the unfruitful works of darkness?
36591_ Ques._ Then would you call yourself insane?
36591_ Ques._ This was about the time that her husband was plotting to kidnap her, was it not?
36591_ Ques._ Was not that a new idea to you in theology?
36591_ Ques._ What else did she say or do there, that showed marks of insanity?
36591_ Ques._ What would you have done under similar circumstances?
36591_ Question._ Dr., what particular idea did she advance on the subject of religion that led you to the conclusion that she was hopelessly insane?
36591_ Question._ Was it an indication of insanity that she wanted to leave the Presbyterian Church?
36591_ Question._ What did she do then?
36591_ Re- cross- examined._--_Question._ Did you deem that an evidence of insanity?
36591and endanger the Union also?
36591and what will the children do for their summer clothes without me to make them?"
36591and when asked by his guests, who often mistook me for the matron,"why he kept so intelligent a lady in an Insane Asylum?"
36591have you any in the wide world?
36591if you or your darling daughter were in their places, would you feel like reproaching me as a fanatic, for thus volunteering in your defence?
36591in the region of the west, or in the east?
36591said I,"Can you get along without me three months?
36591said I,"can you sleep while your wife is in such agony?"
36591said I,"how can you leave me in such a place?
36591the guilty party allowed to go unchallenged lest"the cause"suffer by exposure?
36591where is he now?
36591where is her only daughter, Elizabeth, of thirteen years, and her George Hastings, of ten years, and her darling baby, Arthur Dwight, of five years?
36591will you not protect us from such liabilities?
31298''Did I not tell thee that thou shouldst love thy neighbor as thyself? 31298 Again Baxter essayed to speak, and again Jeffreys bellowed,''Richard, Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court?
31298Do men mourn for him? 31298 Do n''t you remember the Union meeting held in this very hall?
31298Do you take notice of that juryman dressed in blue?
31298Have ye forgot, or never knew, That God will judge the judges too? 31298 I should like to ask,"he continued,"the reverend gentleman in what capacity he expects to be punished for his_ perjury_?"
31298Is not every man_ secure in his life, liberty, and property? 31298 Judges who rule the world by laws, Will ye despise the righteous cause, When the injured poor before you stands?
31298Mr. Muir might have known that_ no attention could be paid to such a rabble, what right had they to representation_? 31298 The fugitive has been a slave before: does the wrong you committed yesterday, give you a natural right to commit wrong afresh and continually?
31298The law of New York allows even foreigners to go there with their slaves; and have the morals of that State suffered in consequence? 31298 The only question you are to determine is... Did Mr. Lyon publish the writing?...
31298Where shall I find a parallel with men who will do such a deed,--do it in Boston? 31298 Who can fail to see that the government would cease to be a government if it were to yield obedience to those local opinions?
31298Who put Slavery in the Constitution; made it Federal? 31298 Why is Boston in this confusion to- day?
31298Will you accept for Law whatever the court declares such?
31298[ 146] But Erskine without a Jury, Gentlemen, what could he have done? 31298 [ 190] Did he remember the fate of the Hebrew Judas, who"betrayed the Innocent Blood,"and then cast down the thirty pieces?
31298[ 23] What followed? 31298 _ If the king will impose upon a man what he can not do, he must acquiesce_; but shall he come and fly in the face of his prince?
31298''And what ailed the old blockhead then,''cried Jeffreys,''that he did not take it?''
31298''Edward, where is thy brother, Anthony?''
31298''Edward, where is thy brother, Anthony?''
31298''He doth whatsoever pleaseth him;''''where the word of the King is there is power, and who may say unto him, What doest thou?''"
31298''I know not; am I my brother''s keeper, Lord?''
31298''Is Saul among the prophets?''
31298A jury?
31298According to the Judge the Jury had only one question before them,"Did Zenger publish the words charged in the information?"
31298Against ME?
31298And when that''Reverend gentleman''rose, and asked,''Do you want an answer to your question?''
31298Another asked,"What is to be done?"
31298Are honest men to take such talk for American law?
31298Because we must sometimes do a disagreeable deed to accomplish an agreeable purpose?
31298Because you enslaved this man''s father, have you a natural right to enslave his child?
31298Boston merchants, where is your brother, Thomas Sims?
31298But did it violate the law of 1790?
31298But do you suppose I can keep the fugitive slave bill, obey these Judges, and kidnap my own Parishioners?
31298But how should he be punished?
31298But of what avail was all this before such a Commissioner?
31298But they have a simple question of fact to determine; namely, Did the Defendant resist officer Butman in the manner set forth?
31298But to what purpose?
31298But where did Judge Curtis find his right to levy Ship- money, Tonnage, and Poundage on the tongues of men; where did he find his"law?"
31298But where did Judge Parker, an estimable man, find his law?
31298But why need I wander so far?
31298By the"opinion"of the lawyers on either side?
31298By what analogy, then, can we refuse the same justice in the most important cases, to the most important personages?
31298By whom shall they"be delivered up?"
31298Can any piece of parchment make right wrong, and wrong right?
31298Can you understand his feelings?
31298Cincinnati?--nay, at Boston?
31298Dare ye condemn the righteous poor And let rich sinners''scape secure, While Gold and Greatness bribe your hands?
31298Did I actually obstruct him?
31298Did I do the deed charged, and obstruct Marshal Freeman while in the peace of the United States, and discharging his official duty?
31298Did he attempt its immediate abolition?
31298Did he cite the Bible?
31298Did he denounce it?
31298Did he do any thing, or say any thing which could in its remotest tendency encourage resistance and violence?
31298Did he do so seditiously, with the intent of making odious or contemptible the President and government, and bringing them both into disrepute?"
31298Did he manufacture Bible?
31298Did he think I advised men to take an oath and break it?
31298Did you never hear of a merchant evading the duties of the custom- house?
31298Do you know_ who_ fired them?
31298Do you think I can suffer Commissioner Curtis and Commissioner Loring to steal my friends,--out of my meeting- house?
31298Do you think I doubt how you will choose?
31298Does Mr. Webster suppose that such a law could be executed in Boston?
31298Does he leave the spot?
31298Does he restrain the negroes?
31298Dost thou shudder?
31298For God''s sake is that no libel?
31298Gentlemen of the Jury, I rose and said,"Do you want an answer to your question, sir?"
31298Gentlemen of the Jury, do you doubt what I say?
31298Gentlemen, what do mankind say to such sophistry?
31298Gentlemen, you will ask me where shall the jury find the Rule of Right, and how know what is just, what not?
31298Had he no affection for Jesus?
31298He had charged me with preaching murder and perjury; had asked, How I expected to be punished for my own"PERJURY?"
31298He said:--"When did fear ever induce a man to relax his power over the object that excited it?
31298Here is the question:"Ought the men who have done this deed against the form of Law to be punished thereby?"
31298How came the Brother- in- law of the Judge on the Grand- Jury summoned to punish men who spoke against kidnapping?
31298How could they think of it?
31298How do you think he proved that?
31298How does the juror judge of the Credibility of Evidence?
31298How many banks are content with_ six per cent._ when money is scarce?
31298I ask you, are we to have deeds as well as words?
31298I asked the meeting,"Will you let him come back; how many will defend him to the worst?"
31298I could not but ask,''Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
31298If my interest is not shaken,_ what have I to do with matters of government_?
31298If this be law, why do we talk of liberties?
31298If this practice be so corrupting, why is it tolerated in other States?"...
31298In Pennsylvania the law is similar, but where is the evidence of its pernicious influence?"
31298In such a case,''what is to be done?''
31298In the logic of legal deduction-- technical inference-- they forget the intuition of conscience: not What is right?
31298Is it according to the Constitution of the United States-- its Purpose, its Means-- thus to punish such acts?
31298Is it expedient in this particular case to apply this law, under the circumstances, to this man, and punish him with fine and imprisonment?
31298Is it innocent in a lawyer to ask the court to do a wicked thing, to urge the court to do it?
31298Is it just and right; that is according to the Natural Law of God, the Constitution of the Universe?
31298Is not happiness in the power of every man?_''Does not every man sit safely under his own vine and fig- tree''and none shall make him afraid?"
31298Is not happiness in the power of every man?_''Does not every man sit safely under his own vine and fig- tree''and none shall make him afraid?"
31298Is not reparation to be made to the public for any injury which it may have sustained, as much as to an individual?
31298Is not that enough?
31298Is that bill Constitutional?
31298Is that consistent with innocence?...
31298Is that the doctrine of Young Massachusetts?
31298Is the fugitive slave bill a Measure tending to that End?
31298Is the welfare of the nation in general, of less consequence than that of a single person?
31298Is there a law of the United States punishing this deed of mine?
31298Is there a statute or custom denouncing a penalty on that special deed?
31298Is this law just?
31298Is this the liberty of Massachusetts?
31298It is piracy to steal a man in Guinea; what is it to do this in Boston?
31298MY defence?
31298Mr. Charles P. Curtis thus sustained his kinsman:--"Is that to be considered immoral which the Court is bound to assist in doing?
31298Mr. Hallett], to howl down the''Higher law,''and when he said, Will you have this to rule over you?
31298Must Justice be appealed from?
31298Need I mention the name of Americans with a similar history?
31298New York?
31298Or why support the unrighteous cause?
31298Shall I never lift an arm to protect him?
31298Shall I speak of that?
31298Shall he say it is illegal?
31298Shall that tongue be silenced; tied in Faneuil Hall; torn out by a Slave- hunter?
31298Should he pray to Darius or pray to God?
31298So in administering law the Judge is to ask, Is the statute constitutional?
31298So the moral question,"Has the man done a wrong thing?"
31298Suppose Daniel-- I mean the old Daniel, the prophet-- should have asked him, What is to be done?
31298Symbolical court of the Fugitive Slave Bill-- it does not respect life, why should it death?
31298That is does it coincide with the Law of God, the Constitution of the Universe?
31298The actual question was, Has the king a right to imprison any subject forever without process of law?
31298The one put to me in my official capacity as juror, is this:"Did Greatheart aid the woman?"
31298The question is not merely, Shall the African be bond or free?
31298The rest are-- what?
31298The sacrifice of man to money, when shall it have an end?
31298Then they are to ask, also,"Was the deed_ naturally wrong_; done from a wrong motive, for a wrong purpose?"
31298Thus practically the judge left the jury only one thing to determine, Did Mr. Miller print Junius''s letter to the king?
31298To a mob?
31298To injustice?
31298To whom?
31298To whom?
31298Was Marshal Freeman, at the time of the obstruction, in the peace of the United States, or was he himself violating the law thereof?
31298Was there any effectual mode of securing to Mr. Burns his natural and unalienable Right except the mode of forcible rescue?
31298Was there any illegal obstruction or opposition at all made to the Marshal?
31298We are told that Elijah gathered the prophets together:''and he came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye?
31298Well, gentlemen, how do you think they received that declaration?
31298What came of that last attempt of the last king of New England to establish a despotism here?
31298What capitalist heeds your statute of usury when he can get illegal interest?
31298What did your fathers do on that occasion?
31298What do you think of a man who knows no lawgiver but the General Court of Massachusetts, or the American Congress: no Justice but the Statutes?
31298What followed?
31298What if it had been told Mayhew and Belknap, that in the pulpits of Boston, to defend kidnapping should be counted to a man as righteousness?
31298What if the jury in 1735 had been faithless?
31298What is a fine of a thousand dollars, and jailing for six months, to the liberty of a man?
31298What may any man call his own, if not the Liberty of his Person?
31298What shall we do?
31298What took place at Philadelphia?
31298What voice can plead for them before their own children?
31298What was the Marshal legally, constitutionally, and justly doing at the time he was obstructed?
31298When a man''s liberty is concerned, we must keep the law, must we?
31298When he maketh inquisition for the blood of the innocent, what shall the stealers of men reply?
31298When will ye once defend the poor, That sinners vex the Saints no more?
31298Where are the Rights of Massachusetts?
31298Where are the laws of Massachusetts forbidding State edifices to be used as prisons for the incarceration of fugitives?
31298Where is Anthony, thy brother?
31298Where is the one spot, that speck of foreign dirt in the clean American garden?
31298Where is the sacred right of_ habeas corpus_?
31298Where is the trial by jury?
31298Where then is the propriety of making such a bustle about the malice or innocence of the intention?
31298Whereto shall I look up for inspiring aid?
31298Who are the persons"held to service or labor?"
31298Who is meant by persons"held to service or labor?"
31298Who were they?
31298Why did not the court summon another jury, and the chief justice put his brother- in- law on it?
31298Why do I say this?
31298Why do I say, then, do not now resist with violence?
31298Why do we trouble ourselves with a dispute about law, franchises, property of goods, and the like?
31298Why dost thou turn pale, as when the crowd clutched at thy life in London Street?
31298Why not?
31298Why should we keep that odious law which makes us hated wherever justice is loved?
31298Why will ye, then, frame wicked laws?
31298Will you allow that to be done?
31298Will you stand by and see your countrymen, your fellow- citizens of Boston, sent off to slavery by some commissioner?
31298Will you tell me that I am a coward?
31298Witnesses testified that Kline was so much addicted to falsehood that they would not believe him on oath,--but what of that?
31298Would not that be a pretty spectacle?
31298and the prince acts against prudence, honor, or conscience, and throw dirt in the king''s face?
31298and, scorning liberty, why should it heed decorum?
31298are we healed?
31298betray the wanderer, and expose the outcast?
31298but What is law?
31298but, Shall America be a Democracy or a Despotism?
31298by the judge''s"opinion,"or that of the community?
31298by whom shall they"be delivered up on claim?"
31298is not before them; only the mechanical question,"Did he do that particular act?"
31298is taken from their consideration; the intellectual question,"Has he done a deed which amounts to the crime forbidden?"
31298is the statute constitutional?
31298so I say; but who is to blame?
31298that the people of Massachusetts will ever return a single fugitive slave, under such an act as that?
31298who adopted Slavery and volunteered to catch a runaway, in 1793, and repeated the act in 1850,--in defiance of all law, all precedent, all right?
31298who carried it across the Mississippi-- into Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Utah, New Mexico?
31298who established it in the Capital of the United States?
31298who got new soil to plant it in?
31298who put it in the new States?
58534A hundred?
58534Address?
58534Ah, stop is it? 58534 Ah, ye objec'', do ye?"
58534And that you fainted?
58534And you want the teapot?
58534Any questions?
58534Are you quite sure?
58534Are you sure?
58534Are you the bondsman in this case?
58534Are you the complainant?
58534Back again?
58534But how do you know, Silas?
58534By the way,says Appleboy,"step up to Police Headquarters with me, will you, Pat?
58534Did you fall?
58534Did you steal Mr. Blickendecker''s eggs?
58534Did you steal his teapot?
58534Did you, about 4:49 P.M., onn Tueday, the 17th of April, observe the defendant near your place of business?
58534Do yer know that man?
58534Do you admit that you were on Forty- second Street at midnight?
58534Do you desire counsel?
58534Do you know of any reason to the contrary?
58534Do you mind letting me have it then?
58534Do you read the papers?
58534Do you say, Mrs.----,the lawyer would inquire deferentially,"that you heard the sound of_ three_ blows?"
58534Do you think I''d try the Smith case before----?
58534Do you think you would make an absolutely fair and impartial juror?
58534Easy, ai n''t it?
58534Eighty?
58534Fifty?
58534Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?
58534Gentlemen of the jury,said he,"have you agreed upon a verdict?"
58534Guilty?
58534Have n''t I worked for him for fourteen years?
58534Have ye got a lawyer?
58534Have you agreed upon a verdict?
58534Hi, there, Rounds, let that old guy in, will ye?
58534How are things?
58534How are you, Mr. Appleboy? 58534 How do you do?"
58534How do you support yourself?
58534How long have you lived at this last address?
58534How say you, do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?
58534How say you? 58534 How shall I do that?"
58534How shall I get it?
58534How''s business?
58534How_ much_ did you give him?
58534How_ much_ did you give him?
58534I suppose there''s no objection to my having the teapot back, is there?
58534I suppose you did n''t believe that Mr. Einstein made those false statements?
58534I suppose you have nothing to ask him?
58534Is n''t that enough?
58534Is that all?
58534Is that all?
58534It''s yours, ai n''t it? 58534 Jumped?"
58534Look here,he exclaims rather angrily,"what is the sense of all this red tape?
58534Madam,he began courteously,"you say you gave the defendant money?"
58534Mr. District Attorney,remarked the presiding justice dryly( which did not lessen the confusion of the young lawyer),"is this a fact?
58534My dear sir,he says,"are you aware that I have no means of knowing that you are the Silas Appleboy who owns this teapot, except your own say so?"
58534Name?
58534Now, young man, have you ever been convicted?
58534Occupation?
58534Or against this defendant?
58534People against McCord?
58534People against Smith?
58534People against Vermicelli?
58534Quite sure? 58534 Seventy?"
58534Skipped her bail, did she? 58534 Speaking of property,"continues Mrs. Appleboy,"where''s the teapot?"
58534Stole a teapot,--um-- um-- Is this the defendant?
58534Supposing, however, she were captured and brought back and tried, how do I know but that the jury might acquit her? 58534 Twenty miles an hour?"
58534Well, Mr. Appleboy,remarks the sergeant,"what became of that cook of yours?
58534Well, Silas,she inquires,"has that woman been convicted at last?"
58534Well, what do you want?
58534Well, what makes you think we have it?
58534What are yer makin''all this row about, and blockin''up the street fer?
58534What did you see him do?
58534What do you mean?
58534What do you say, Mr. District Attorney?
58534What do you want?
58534What have you to say, if anything, relative to the charge against you?
58534What is the state of the case?
58534What paper do you read?
58534What paper?
58534What was her name?
58534What''s the trouble?
58534What''s yer name?
58534What''s yer name?
58534When did she steal the teapot?
58534When were you convicted?
58534Where did you last see the teapot?
58534Where is the defendant?
58534Where is the defendant?
58534Where is the prisoner?
58534Who are yer anyway?
58534Who''s Maria Holohan, anyway?
58534Why should it?
58534Why, Silas,interrupts his wife sharply,"what have you been doing that you are ashamed to tell of?"
58534Why, is there any doubt about it?
58534Will you say it was going forty?
58534Will you say it was going thirty miles an hour?
58534Would you say that it was going at ten miles an hour?
58534You''re in the Holohan case, are n''t you? 58534 _ Have you got_ THAT_ in your pants pocket_?"
58534_ I am quite sure that it is mine._"How do you know?
58534_ It looks exactly like it._"But may it not be a similar one and not your own?
58534_ No; it is mine._"But how? 58534 ''_Flaherty to Defendant:"Ever receive any previous religious instruction?"
58534***** The Grand Jury"which consisted of Nineteen[?
58534----?"
58534After his clients had stated their case he would turn to them and ask:"Do you wish the law from the big book or the little book?"
58534An affirmative answer to the simple question,"Have you ever been convicted?"
58534Any cross- examination?
58534Any cross- examination?
58534Are prosecutors habitually vindictive and over- zealous?
58534Blickendecker wipes his forehead and turns towards the court:"Your honors, gentlemens, I see dot feller dere----""The defendant?"
58534By Prof. John H. Wigmore xvii CHAPTER I What Is Crime?
58534CHAPTER II WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS?
58534CHAPTER XI THE JURY Is trial by jury successful in criminal cases?
58534CHAPTER XIV THE SENTENCE"What have you to say why judgment of the court should not be pronounced against you according to law?"
58534Can this be the stiff, little old bank president he knew six months ago?
58534Daniel F. Cohalan, attorney for the defendant, then took him in hand somewhat as follows:"Have you any prejudice against a man accused of crime?"
58534Defendant:"How''s that?"
58534Did n''t the Supreme Court say there was a reasonable doubt in my case?
58534Did you see her?"
58534Do n''t you do anything but read the papers?"
58534Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?"
58534Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?"
58534Do you plead guilty or not guilty?"
58534Do you swear that the statements contained in this complaint are the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?"
58534Dodge?"
58534Does she look like a guilty woman?
58534Does such a practice make for justice?
58534Dough?"
58534First, how can the sympathies of the jury be enlisted at the very start?
58534Flaherty to Clerk:"_ Ai n''t got none._"Flaherty to Defendant:"Are ye married?"
58534Flaherty to Clerk:"_ Ai n''t got none._"Flaherty to Defendant:"Phat do yez do fer a livin''?"
58534Flaherty to Defendant:"Phat''s yer religion?"
58534Flaherty to Defendant:"Say, me friend, where was ye born?"
58534Flaherty to Defendant:"Where do yez hang out?"
58534For example:"Do you know the defendant?"
58534Has he got to make another trip down to that miserable Criminal Courts building?
58534Has the defendant a license?"
58534Has the jury system broken down?
58534He drew from his pocket a folded paper and handed it to the paralyzed young attorney with the harsh demand:"What do you say to that?"
58534He''s one of those----s, is he?
58534How about the_ real_ criminals?"
58534How about those Ship- Building fellers?"
58534How do you know Maria has n''t taken it with her to Ireland?"
58534How do_ I_ know yer ai n''t throwin''some game into me?"
58534How far are the interests of the public and the prisoner irreconcilable?
58534How far may he temper justice with mercy?
58534I am asked what I have to say why judgment of death should not be pronounced against me?
58534I am not guilty of thoo dedys, ne noon of hem, God help me so.... How wylte thou acquite the?...
58534If a defendant intends to prove himself irresponsible for his offence, why should he not be compelled to enter a specific plea to that effect?
58534If such be the case, did he know right from wrong as applied to the particular act in question?
58534If they could beat a case in which they had already pleaded_ guilty_, what could they not do where the evidence was less obvious?
58534In one case an aggressive talesman broke in upon a burst of carefully prepared eloquence with the brutal interrogation:"How about the_ knife_?"
58534Is it want of intelligence, lack of regard for law, or vital misconception of their function?
58534Is n''t that enough?"
58534Is that it?"
58534Judge to the prisoner:"Nothing to say, I suppose?"
58534No?
58534No?
58534Now suppose that on reaching the police station the burglar turns out not to be a burglar at all but the family doctor?
58534One of the ladies referred to testified as follows:"Can you identify that diamond?"
58534Or a gentleman who has mistaken some one''s else area for his own?
58534Or a late caller upon the cook?
58534Or the transactions of a morning only a week ago, with any accuracy as to time?
58534Or:"How old are you?"
58534Prisoner, look upon the jury,"continued the clerk, and turning to the foreman,"How say you?
58534Smith?"
58534Smith?"
58534So you plead guilty, do you?
58534THE PRISONER AT THE BAR The Prisoner at the Bar CHAPTER I WHAT IS CRIME?
58534That''s you, is it?
58534The case is over, I own the teapot,--why do n''t you give it to me and be done with it?"
58534The clerk put the usual questions and then inquired:"Have you ever been convicted before?"
58534The company or the retailer?
58534The jury acquitted, and who can say that there was not at least a reasonable doubt?"]
58534The latter took the stand, and the judge inquired with a smile:"You did n''t intend to cheat this man, did you?"
58534The officer, dropping his voice, remarks, confidentially:"Say, do you ever take a drink?"
58534The quaint old report begins in Latin, but"the pleadings"are set forth in the language of the day, as follows:"Agnes Archer, is that thy name?
58534The writer remembers being nicely hoisted by his own petard on a similar occasion:"What do you do for a living?"
58534Then to the jury:"Gentlemen, I suppose you have no doubt?
58534There was a long pause, and then the judge, looking down intently from the bench, said:"Graham, is that the truth?"
58534There you are, and you say now she skipped her bail?"
58534Under what circumstances was the theft committed?"
58534What can I do for you?"
58534What can be done about it?
58534What chance under those circumstances of a conviction?
58534What did these judges mean by_ know_?
58534What do these fellows do, I would like to know, to earn their salary?
58534What does the ordinary juryman mean by it?
58534What does the reader mean by_ know_?
58534What generally occurs?
58534What is crime?
58534What is it you say I must do; get an order from the mayor?"
58534What is the explanation for this?
58534What is this circumstantial romance when it comes to be analyzed?
58534What must have been the effect on the court officers, the witnesses, the defendants out on bail, the complainants, the spectators?
58534What paper do you read in the morning?"
58534What should he do?
58534What was the use of trying to do good work any longer?
58534What will he say?
58534What would you advise me to do?"
58534What would_ you_ do?
58534Where are you going?"
58534Where is it?"
58534Who can picture the horror of a life- time of repentance or of mocking remorselessness?
58534Who does the adulterating?
58534Who shall say how many embryonic law- breakers took courage at the story and started upon an experimental attempt at crime?
58534Who_ are_ the"_ real_"criminals?
58534Why do these big men patrol the streets and order us about?
58534Why will they do such things?
58534Why, the jury argued, should the lawyer object unless the making of such a forgery were in fact an easy matter?
58534Why?
58534Will he put in a defence?
58534Will he testify in his own behalf?
58534Without discussing this embarrassing question, does the reader know what he would have a right to do?
58534Woman stole your teapot, did n''t she?"
58534Yes,--better for whom?
58534Yet how far does the element of sex defeat the ends of justice?
58534Yet who of us could state with certainty the guests at a particular dinner six months ago?
58534You had a teapot worth over fifty dollars, and your cook stole it?
58534Your cook, eh?
58534[ 27]"Jury satisfactory to both sides?"
58534_ Q._"Did you_ see_ him?"
58534_ Q._"How do you know?"
58534_ Question 3._--"In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner''s state of mind when the act was committed?
58534_ Question 4._--"If a person under an insane delusion as to existing facts commits an offence in consequence thereof, is he thereby excused?
58534and the judge, gazing at a long sheet of foolscap in his hand, remarks inquiringly:"People against Murphy?"
58534do, if his quarry attempt to escape?
58534says the magistrate;"and do you say that the defendant struck you?"
18281Are ye not of more value than many sparrows?
18281A paper that you made yourself?
18281About what time in the day, or what time in the morning was it that these ladies voted?
18281All three of the inspectors agreed in receiving these names for registration, did they not?
18281All you know about these tickets or that book, is what appears on the face of it, is it not?
18281And candidates voted for both of those officers by those who saw fit to vote for them?
18281And did they receive their votes?
18281And do you now?
18281And is not their_ political subjection_ as absolute as was that of the African slaves?
18281And she was registered accordingly?
18281And six tickets voted at that poll?
18281And taking a registration list?
18281And were acting as inspectors of election when these ladies voted?
18281And what, again, is the basis of political rights?
18281And when they voted, yourself and Mr. Marsh were in favor of receiving the votes, and Hall was opposed to receiving the votes?
18281And when you handed it in it was folded, so that no one could see it?
18281And where does Congress derive the power to pass laws to punish offenders against the laws of a State?
18281Answer that question, please?
18281Any other?
18281Are they capacities merely?
18281Are they not also rights?"
18281Are they not shown to be_ subjects_ of the other half, who are the sovereigns?
18281Are women governed?
18281Are you one of the defendants in this indictment?
18281Are you willing to testify that you recollect distinctly, anything that was said by either of the inspectors when these ladies voted?
18281As I understand you, all three of the inspectors agreed in permitting these people to be registered?
18281At that time was Jones there?
18281At the time of the registry, when her name was registered, was the Supervisor of Election present at the Board?
18281At the time they voted?
18281At the time you saw these ladies register, were the three inspectors, Hall, Jones, and Marsh present?
18281Attorney for the Northern District of New York?
18281Before you go further, state who was present at that time?
18281But are women,_ who are not infants_, ever included in this category?
18281But how was it to be obtained?
18281But the other two were a majority, and he was overruled; was this the way it was, or was n''t there anything in form said about it?
18281But you saw those whose names you have given?
18281By and between whom?
18281By the people of the ward?
18281By whom do they purport to be signed?
18281By whom were those books left in your office, if by any one?
18281By whom?
18281C. Storrs, a United States Commissioner, in the city of Rochester, when her case was examined?
18281Can the United States destroy rights on account of sex?
18281Can the United States, at pleasure, take from its own citizens the right of voting, or abridge that right?
18281Can the United States, in its sovereign capacity, overthrow the rights of its own citizens?
18281Can you recollect this without looking at that paper?
18281Could any person read it, or see what you voted, or who you voted for?
18281Did Jones take all of the votes of those persons whose names you have on your list?
18281Did either one of the inspectors object to receiving the votes of the women at the polls?
18281Did he mention the Congressional ticket?
18281Did he take any part in receiving votes, and, if so, state what part?
18281Did it to accommodate you while you stepped out?
18281Did she give evidence?
18281Did she name any particular amendment?
18281Did she, upon that occasion, state that she consulted or talked with Judge Henry R. Selden, of Rochester, in relation to her right to vote?
18281Did the Board consider that and decide that she was entitled to register?
18281Did the Board consider the question of her right to registry, and decide that she was entitled to registry as a voter?
18281Did the defendant vote in good faith in that belief?
18281Did the framers of the Declaration intend to leave women under the government of Great Britain?
18281Did these ladies vote the Congressional ticket, all of them?
18281Did they act as a Board of Registry preceding the election?
18281Did they advise the registry, or did they not?
18281Did they all vote on that occasion?
18281Did they intend to set themselves and their male compeers free, and leave women behind, under a monarchy?
18281Did you find it correct?
18281Did you go to Mrs. Leyden''s house and advise her to go and register?
18281Did you have two meetings for the purpose of registration prior to election?
18281Did you hear either of the inspectors say anything about it?
18281Did you hear the statement of Mr. Jones?
18281Did you keep minutes of evidence on that occasion?
18281Did you make a certificate and return of that fact?
18281Did you make any of the entries in that book?
18281Did you observe which boxes the tickets of these persons were put into?
18281Did you occupy any official position in the month of November, 1872?
18281Did you or any of the inspectors see or know the contents of any of the ballots?
18281Did you receive the tickets from Miss Anthony?
18281Did you receive the votes of these persons?
18281Did you reside in the 8th ward?
18281Did you reside in the City of Rochester in the month of November, 1872?
18281Did you say anything there, about getting twenty women to vote?
18281Did you see Miss Anthony and other ladies there upon that day?
18281Did you see a number of them there?
18281Did you see any of them register on that day?
18281Did you see any of these women vote on the day of election?
18281Did you see her vote?
18281Did you see him take more than one?
18281Did you stand at the window and receive the votes?
18281Did you suppose at that time that the law required you to take their votes?
18281Did you vote for a candidate for Congress?
18281Did you, upon the 5th day of November, vote?
18281Do they not, in that event, occupy,_ politically_, exactly the position which the learned Chief Justice assigns to the African slaves?
18281Do you know by sight, any of those persons whose names I have read?
18281Do you know how many tickets they voted, or offered to the inspectors?
18281Do you know how these tickets were endorsed, or what they were called?
18281Do you know the defendant, Miss Susan B. Anthony?
18281Do you know the defendant, Susan B. Anthony?
18281Do you know the defendants, Jones, Marsh and Hall?
18281Do you know their hand- writing?
18281Do you know these defendants, Jones and Marsh?
18281Do you know what the custom or habit is of copying these books when people vote?
18281Do you know what those letters are?
18281Do you know whether it fell short on members of Congress?
18281Do you know whose it was?
18281Do you recollect seeing any others register except those you have now mentioned?
18281Do you recollect seeing those persons register, or do you suppose they did, because you find it on a paper there?
18281Do you recollect that he did?
18281Do you recollect who took your vote?
18281Do you see no parallel between Adolph and the women of America?
18281Do you swear you saw Mrs. Leyden register?
18281Does B''s misapprehension of his rights justify his act?
18281Does any lawyer doubt my statement of the legal status of married women?
18281Does any such principle of exclusion apply to them?
18281Does that paper contain dates?
18281For, what one civil right is worth a rush after a man''s property is subject to be taken from him at pleasure without his consent?
18281From that poll list what tickets does it purport to show that she voted upon that occasion?
18281From what does it date?
18281Had the Board of Inspectors been regularly organized?
18281Hall received the vote on account of Jones being absent?
18281Hall, or any of them?
18281Has it the right to take from citizens of States the right of voting?
18281Has their consent bean asked through their votes?
18281Have they a recognized right to the ballot?
18281Have they consented to this power of the government?
18281Have they had a voice in saying what taxes shall be levied on their property,--what penalties they shall pay for crimes?
18281Have you a list of those that you saw register?
18281Have you any registration lists and poll lists of the 1st Election District, 8th Ward, City of Rochester, in your possession?
18281He saw it before you voted?
18281How can the state deny or abridge the right of the citizen, if the citizen does not possess it?
18281How could_ four_ millions negroes be made voters if_ two_ millions were not included?
18281How long have you held that office?
18281How many ballot boxes were there there?
18281How many ballot boxes were there?
18281How many of the large class to whom the right of voting is supposed to have been secured by the fifteenth amendment, are qualified to hold office?
18281How many of the male bipeds who do our voting are qualified to hold high offices?
18281How many of these people did you see vote?
18281How many?
18281How often have mothers governed large kingdoms, as regents, during the minority of their sons, and governed them well?
18281How then could the defendant be lawfully deprived of the right to ask every juror if the verdict had his assent?
18281How was you appointed?
18281If Hindoo women could have shaped the laws of India, would widows for ages have been burned on the funeral pyres of their deceased husbands?
18281If his vote is to be rejected after he takes the oath, why not reject it before?
18281If she believed she had a right to vote, and voted in reliance upon that belief, does that relieve her from the penalty?
18281In accordance with the instruction?
18281In receiving those ballots did you act honestly in accordance with your sense of duty, and in accordance with your best judgment?
18281In that view of the case, is there anything to go to the jury?
18281In the first election district of that ward?
18281In voting, did you believe that you had a right to vote, and vote in good faith?
18281In what Congressional District was the city of Rochester at the time?
18281In what Congressional District was the first election district of the 8th Ward, in November, 1872?
18281In what capacity were you acting upon that day, if any, in relation to elections?
18281In what district?
18281In what election district were you inspector of elections?
18281In what way does the consent of the governed come?
18281Into how many election districts is the 8th ward divided, if it contains more than one?
18281Is anything further needed to prove woman''s condition of servitude sufficiently orthodox to entitle her to the guaranties of the fifteenth amendment?
18281Is it a crime to be a woman?
18281Is it less pertinent for us to ask if personal representation is not more sacred than property representation?
18281Is it possible to amend a Constitution not in accordance with its underlying principles?
18281Is n''t such a position, I ask you, humiliating enough to be called"servitude?"
18281Is that a reason for denying the right to those who would vote?
18281Is the right to vote one of the privileges or immunities of citizens?
18281Is there a certificate attached to them, purporting to show what they are?
18281It was canvassed previous to election day between them?
18281JUDGE HUNT--(Ordering the defendant to stand up),"Has the prisoner anything to say why sentence shall not be pronounced?"
18281MISS ANTHONY: I would like to know if the testimony of a person who has been convicted of a crime, can be taken?
18281MR. VAN VOORHIS: Does that exclude all conversations that occurred there with any persons?
18281MR. VAN VOORHIS: I suppose it will be conceded that Hall stands in the same position as to his motives?
18281MR. VAN VOORHIS: If the jury should find a verdict of not guilty, could your Honor set it aside?
18281MR. VAN VOORHIS: Then why should it go to the jury?
18281Miss Anthony, I want you to state what occurred at the Board of Registry, when your name was registered?
18281No mention is there made of women, but who will deny it was not intended for them to enjoy the right of worshipping as they choose?
18281No one had seen your ballot except your husband before you handed it in?
18281Now turn to the names of voters contained in the list copied upon election day; do you find the name of Susan B. Anthony upon that list?
18281Now where do men get their constitutional right to govern women?
18281On the day of election were you at the polls?
18281On the day of registry did the inspectors as a board decide unanimously to register these votes, all three of you consenting?
18281On the last day of registry?
18281On their presenting their votes, what was done?
18281On what ground was that?
18281On what ground?
18281Or why they were made, so far as you have any knowledge?
18281Please look and see which of those tickets the list purports to show that they voted?
18281Please look at the paper now shown you and see if it contains the minutes you kept upon that occasion?
18281Please point out the following names, if you find them in the registration list: Susan B. Anthony?
18281Please state from the heading what tickets it purports to show they voted?
18281Pound, was she asked there if she had any doubt about her right to vote, and did she answer"Not a particle?"
18281Prior to the election, was there a registry of voters in that district made?
18281Q. Ann S. Mosher?
18281Q. Ann S. Mosher?
18281Q. Ellen S. Baker?
18281Q. Hannah Chatfield?
18281Q. Hannah Chatfield?
18281Q. I want to get at what he said when these votes were taken?
18281Q. Jane Cogswell?
18281Q. Jane Cogswell?
18281Q. Jones''position was at the window receiving votes?
18281Q. Lottie B. Anthony?
18281Q. Lottie B. Anthony?
18281Q. Margaret Leyden?
18281Q. Margaret Leyden?
18281Q. Mary Anthony?
18281Q. Mary Anthony?
18281Q. Mary Pulver?
18281Q. Mary Pulver?
18281Q. Mary S. Baker?
18281Q. Mary S. Hibbard?
18281Q. Mary S. Hibbard?
18281Q. Mr. Jones, where do you reside?
18281Q. Mrs. Lottie B. Anthony is the wife of Alderman Anthony?
18281Q. Nancy Chapman?
18281Q. Nancy M. Chapman?
18281Q. Rhoda DeGarmo?
18281Q. Rhoda DeGarmo?
18281Q. Sarah Truesdell?
18281Q. Sarah Truesdell?
18281Q. Susan M. Hough?
18281Q. Susan M. Hough?
18281Receiving the names of persons who claimed to be entitled to vote?
18281Receiving votes?
18281Shall the women of this country forever have cause to say that the declaration and the constitution are specially defined,--are organs of special law?
18281She was not challenged on the day she voted?
18281State generally what was done, or what occupied that hour''s time?
18281State to the jury whether you had separate boxes for the several tickets voted in that election district?
18281State what tickets she voted, if you know, Mr. Jones?
18281State whether that is the poll list of voters kept upon the day of election in the first election district of the 8th ward, of the city of Rochester?
18281State, Mr. Morrison?
18281State, if you please, what occurred when you presented yourself at the polls on election day?
18281Story asks,"Who are the parties to this great contract?"
18281THE CLERK: How say you, do you find the prisoners at the bar guilty of the offense whereof they stand indicted, or not guilty?
18281THE COURT: What is the object of this?
18281THE COURT: What?
18281THE COURT: Will it change the case at all, Mr. Van Voorhis?
18281That she was a woman?
18281That was the practice of the inspector, no matter who voted?
18281The clerk called the names of the jury and then said: THE CLERK: Gentlemen, have you agreed upon your verdict?
18281The clerk polled the jury, each juror answering in the affirmative to the question,"Is this your verdict?"
18281The only question left to be settled, now, is: Are women persons?
18281The question of_ State_ rights was not as great a question as this: What are United States rights?
18281Then you did n''t see the tickets as they went into the boxes?
18281There are a large number of the inspectors''books of the last election filed with you as City Clerk, are there not?
18281There was a stenographic reporter there, was there not?
18281There would remain another and most vital question in the case, and that is, did he intend to vote unlawfully?
18281These are certainly great ameliorations of the law; but how have they been produced?
18281Those produced here to- day are the lists kept upon that occasion, are they not?
18281To save time, I will ask you whether that was substantially correct as you understand it?
18281Turn to the name of Susan B. Anthony, if it is upon that poll list?
18281Under that she claimed her right to vote?
18281Upon the 5th day of November, did the defendant, Susan B. Anthony, vote in the first election district of the 8th ward of the city of Rochester?
18281Upon the day of election were the defendants Jones, Marsh, and Hall, acting as inspectors of election?
18281Upon the day of election you had a list of voters?
18281Upon the days fixed by the laws of the State of New York?
18281Upon the list copied by the inspectors upon the day of election, is there any heading purporting to show what tickets these people voted?
18281Was Miss Anthony challenged before the Board of Registry?
18281Was Miss Anthony challenged upon that occasion?
18281Was Mr. Lewis there when you registered?
18281Was any application made to you, by any person, at any time, for a warrant against them for this offence?
18281Was he consulted upon the question of whether she was entitled to registry, or did he express an opinion on the subject to the inspectors?
18281Was not this question put to her"Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?"
18281Was she called as a witness in her own behalf upon that examination?
18281Was she challenged at any time?
18281Was she sworn?
18281Was that all he said?
18281Was that done in each case of the women who voted?
18281Was the defendant legally entitled to vote at the election in question?
18281Was the preliminary and the general oath administered?
18281Was there a poll list kept of the voters of the first election district of the 8th ward on the day of election?
18281Was there any objection made, or any doubt raised as to her right to vote?
18281Was you one of the officers engaged in making that registry?
18281Was you present on any day when they were registering voters?
18281Was your ballot folded up?
18281Was your husband present when you voted?
18281Was your name registered before the election which took place on the 5th of November, 1872?
18281Was your objection to registering Miss Anthony on the ground that she was a woman?
18281Well, give us what you know about the boxes?
18281Well, they did before they were registered, did they not?
18281Well, was it about 5 o''clock in the morning-- very early?
18281Well, was the question of your right to be registered a subject of discussion there?
18281Were all three of these defendants there?
18281Were both the other inspectors present when he took it?
18281Were not women intended to be included in the benefits of the constitution?
18281Were questions asked her?
18281Were the other inspectors there at the time?
18281Were there two boxes for Congressmen?
18281Were these defendants present when their votes were received?
18281Were these people, or any of them, present, and were they registered at the same time you were?
18281Were they not to be protected in freedom of speech, and in the right of assembling to petition the government for a redress of grievances?
18281Were those ballots which you received from them folded?
18281Were you elected or appointed?
18281Were you inspector of election in the 8th ward?
18281Were you one of the inspectors of the 8th ward?
18281Were you present at the Board of Registry when Miss Anthony and others appeared there and demanded to be registered?
18281Were you present on the day of election?
18281What are the privileges and immunities of citizens?
18281What are those books you hold in your hand?
18281What custom the inspectors have of indicating what tickets a person votes when he offers his vote?
18281What day was the election?
18281What did you do with them when you received them?
18281What further can be demanded of them?
18281What is a slave?
18281What is it?
18281What is servitude?
18281What is the admitted basis of our nation?
18281What is the statement there?
18281What is your age?
18281What is your age?
18281What number is it?
18281What office do you hold?
18281What paper are you reading from?
18281What position did you occupy during the day?
18281What prevents them unless it is unjust illegal power?
18281What privilege or immunity has California or Oregon the constitutional right to deny them, save that of the ballot?
18281What sort of a poll list?
18281What then was the intention?
18281What was the defect in her right to vote as a citizen?
18281What was your business at the registry at that time?
18281What"other rights fall within the protection of these articles?"
18281What"other rights"do these amendments cover?
18281What, then, are the"privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States"which are secured against such abridgement, by this section?
18281When Miss Anthony voted, what did she do?
18281When she offered her vote, was the same objection brought up in the Board of Inspectors, or question made of her right to vote as a woman?
18281When the registry was being made did Miss Anthony appear before the Board of Registry and claim to be registered as a voter?
18281When you came to receive the votes, Hall dissented?
18281When you counted up your votes at night, when the polls closed, did you compare your votes with the list?
18281Where did you live in November, 1872?
18281Where did you live, in November, 1872?
18281Where do you live now?
18281Where do you reside?
18281Where were you living on the 5th of November, 1872?
18281Which district?
18281Which of those persons did you see register?
18281Which one?
18281Which one?
18281Which were they?
18281Who can say our forefathers_ intended_ to include Chinamen, or Sandwich Islanders, or the Norwegian, Russian, or Italian in its benefits?
18281Who did you see vote, or offer their votes upon the day of election?
18281Who of these ladies were present when you voted and voted with you, if any?
18281Who put them in the boxes?
18281Who received your vote?
18281Who took Miss Anthony''s vote?
18281Who took any others that you saw?
18281Who were inspectors with you?
18281Who?
18281Will the Clerk poll the jury?
18281Will you produce them?
18281Will you state to the jury what tickets she voted, whether State, Assembly, Congress and Electoral?
18281Wo n''t you state what Miss Anthony said, if she said anything, when she came there and offered her name for registration?
18281Wo n''t you state what occurred there?
18281You ca n''t swear which boxes they went into?
18281You copied that paper from the registry, did n''t you?
18281You did n''t hear any such statement as that?
18281You do n''t know who made those straight marks?
18281You had canvassed the ward in the employment of somebody?
18281You have heard me name the different persons, have you not, when I asked Mr. Morrison questions?
18281You heard the remark made that they voted four tickets; who made that remark?
18281You made a list or registry, did you not, upon those days?
18281You may proceed and state what occurred there?
18281You presented yourself as a female, claiming that you had a right to vote?
18281You say you find the defendant guilty of the offense whereof she stands indicted, and so say you all?
18281You took the two oaths there, did you?
18281You were not near enough to see what these ballots were?
18281You would say that to each of these persons the preliminary oath was administered, and also the general oath?
18281_ If he refuse to take the oath, his vote shall be rejected._ Is not the inference irresistible, that, if he take the oath, it shall be received?
18281and did she not answer"Not a particle?"
1404After all, may not another ground be taken on which this article of the Constitution will admit of a still more ready defense? 1404 Why,"say they,"should we adopt an imperfect thing?
1404( 1) Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?
1404And how could it have happened otherwise?
1404And how far does this combination characterize the plan which has been reported by the convention?
1404And it is asked by what authority this bold and radical innovation was undertaken?
1404And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?
1404And what is there in all this that can not as well be performed by the national legislature as by a State legislature?
1404And who is there that will either take the trouble or incur the odium, of a strict scrutiny into the secret springs of the transaction?
1404And will he not, from his own interest in that species of property, be sufficiently prone to resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it?
1404Are fleets and armies and revenues necessary to this purpose?
1404Are not popular assemblies frequently subject to the impulses of rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and of other irregular and violent propensities?
1404Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?
1404Are suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people?
1404Are the State governments to be stigmatized as tyrannies, because they possess this power?
1404Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men?
1404Are there not aversions, predilections, rivalships, and desires of unjust acquisitions, that affect nations as well as kings?
1404Are they agreed, are any two of them agreed, in their objections to the remedy proposed, or in the proper one to be substituted?
1404Are they not the genuine and the characteristic means by which republican government provides for the liberty and happiness of the people?
1404Are they not the identical means on which every State government in the Union relies for the attainment of these important ends?
1404Are they only to be met with in the towns or cities?
1404Are we afraid of foreign gold?
1404Are we entitled by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi?
1404Are we in a condition to resent or to repel the aggression?
1404Are"the wealthy and the well- born,"as they are called, confined to particular spots in the several States?
1404But SUSPICION may ask, Why then was it introduced?
1404But a right implies a remedy; and where else could the remedy be deposited, than where it is deposited by the Constitution?
1404But are they not all that government will admit, and that human prudence can devise?
1404But could an appeal be made to lie from the State courts to the subordinate federal judicatories?
1404But does it follow because there is a power to lay them that they will actually be laid?
1404But even in that case, may he have no object beyond his present station, to which he may sacrifice his independence?
1404But have they considered whether a better form could have been substituted?
1404But is it a just idea?
1404But is not the fact an alarming proof of the danger resulting from a government which does not possess regular powers commensurate to its objects?
1404But it may be again asked, Who is to judge of the NECESSITY and PROPRIETY of the laws to be passed for executing the powers of the Union?
1404But might not his nomination be overruled?
1404But ought not a more direct and explicit provision to have been made in favor of the State courts?
1404But the question again recurs, upon what pretense could he be put in possession of a force of that magnitude in time of peace?
1404But upon what principle is the discrimination of the places of election to be made, in order to answer the purpose of the meditated preference?
1404But was it necessary to give an INDEFINITE POWER of raising TROOPS, as well as providing fleets; and of maintaining both in PEACE, as well as in WAR?
1404But what inference can be drawn from this, or what would they amount to, if they were not to be supreme?
1404But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
1404But what is to be the object of this capricious partiality in the national councils?
1404But what would be the contest in the case we are supposing?
1404But where are the means to be found by the President, or the Senate, or both?
1404But whether made by one side or the other, would each side enjoy equal advantages on the trial?
1404But why is the experiment of an extended republic to be rejected, merely because it may comprise what is new?
1404But why, it is asked, might not the same purpose have been accomplished by the instrumentality of the State courts?
1404But will not this also be possessed in sufficient degree by a very few intelligent men, diffusively elected within the State?
1404But would not her navigation be materially injured by the loss of the important advantage of being her own carrier in that trade?
1404By way of answer to this, it has been triumphantly asked, Why not in the first instance omit that ambiguous power, and rely upon the latter resource?
1404By what means is this object attainable?
1404Can it be said that the limits of the United States exceed this distance?
1404Can not the like knowledge be obtained in the national legislature from the representatives of each State?
1404Could the Supreme Court have been relied upon as answering this description?
1404Do the monitors deny the reality of her danger?
1404Do these fundamental principles require, particularly, that no tax should be levied without the intermediate agency of the States?
1404Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of their intended usurpations?
1404Do they deny the necessity of some speedy and powerful remedy?
1404Do they require that the members of the government should derive their appointment from the legislatures, not from the people of the States?
1404Do they require that the powers of the government should act on the States, and not immediately on individuals?
1404Do they require that, in the establishment of the Constitution, the States should be regarded as distinct and independent sovereigns?
1404Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril for the preservation of our political existence?
1404Does the American impose on the Congress appropriations for two years?
1404Does the British Constitution restrain the parliamentary discretion to one year?
1404For what inducement could the Senate have to concur in a preference in which itself would not be included?
1404For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
1404From what quarter can the danger proceed?
1404Had not Congress repeatedly recommended this measure as not inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Confederation?
1404Had not every State but one; had not New York herself, so far complied with the plan of Congress as to recognize the PRINCIPLE of the innovation?
1404Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war?
1404Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals?
1404Has not the spirit of commerce, in many instances, administered new incentives to the appetite, both for the one and for the other?
1404Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies?
1404Have they, by some miraculous instinct or foresight, set apart in each of them a common place of residence?
1404Have we not had unequivocal experience of its effects in the course of the revolution which we have just accomplished?
1404Here another question occurs: What relation would subsist between the national and State courts in these instances of concurrent jurisdiction?
1404How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad?
1404How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?
1404How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful?
1404How can perfection spring from such materials?
1404How can the trade between the different States be duly regulated, without some knowledge of their relative situations in these and other respects?
1404How could recoveries be enforced?
1404How could the Senate confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing their right of negative upon his nominations?
1404How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?
1404How far can they be combined with those other ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense?
1404How shall we prevent a conflict between charity and conviction?
1404How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity?
1404How would it be possible to agree upon a rule of apportionment satisfactory to all?
1404How, and when, and in what proportion shall aids of men and money be afforded?
1404How, in fact, could a majority in the House of Representatives impeach themselves?
1404I ask, What are these principles?
1404If any question is depending in a State legislature respecting one of the counties, which demands a knowledge of local details, how is it acquired?
1404If it should break forth into a storm, who can insure us that in its progress a part of its fury would not be spent upon us?
1404If one was attacked, would the others fly to its succor, and spend their blood and money in its defense?
1404If the latter, in what relation will they stand to the national tribunals?
1404If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism, what need of the militia?
1404If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?
1404If this be their true interest, have they in fact pursued it?
1404If, on the contrary, we ought to exceed this point, where can we stop, short of an indefinite power of providing for emergencies as they may arise?
1404In relation to what objects?
1404In what does our security consist against usurpation from that quarter?
1404In what manner is this influence to be exerted?
1404Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?
1404Is a law proposed concerning private debts?
1404Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land a symptom of national distress?
1404Is an indefinite power to raise money dangerous in the hands of the federal government?
1404Is an indefinite power to raise troops dangerous?
1404Is another object of a bill of rights to define certain immunities and modes of proceeding, which are relative to personal and private concerns?
1404Is commerce of importance to national wealth?
1404Is it a fair comparison?
1404Is it here that suspicion rests her charge?
1404Is it improper and unsafe to intermix the different powers of government in the same body of men?
1404Is it not designed as a method of NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men?
1404Is it not( we may ask these projectors in politics) the true interest of all nations to cultivate the same benevolent and philosophic spirit?
1404Is it particularly dangerous to give the keys of the treasury, and the command of the army, into the same hands?
1404Is it possible that foreign nations can either respect or confide in such a government?
1404Is it possible that the people of America will longer consent to trust their honor, their happiness, their safety, on so precarious a foundation?
1404Is it probable that such a combination would exist at all?
1404Is it supported by REASON?
1404Is it to be presumed that any other State, at the same or any other given period, will be exempt from them?
1404Is it to be presumed, that at any future septennial epoch the same State will be free from parties?
1404Is it true that force and right are necessarily on the same side in republican governments?
1404Is not a want of co- operation the infallible consequence of such a system?
1404Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory?
1404Is not the power of the governor, in this article, on a calculation of political consequences, greater than that of the President?
1404Is not this the true light in which it ought to be regarded?
1404Is private credit the friend and patron of industry?
1404Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger?
1404Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard against foreign encroachments?
1404Is the CONSEQUENCE from this doctrine admissible?
1404Is the administration of justice between the citizens of the same State the proper department of the local governments?
1404Is the aggregate power of the general government greater than ought to have been vested in it?
1404Is the danger apprehended from the other branches of the federal government?
1404Is the doctrine warranted by FACTS?
1404Is the importation of slaves permitted by the new Constitution for twenty years?
1404Is the power of declaring war necessary?
1404Is the power of raising armies and equipping fleets necessary?
1404Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a numerous and enlightened nation?
1404Is this to be exclusive, or are those courts to possess a concurrent jurisdiction?
1404It has been asked, what is meant by"cases arising under the Constitution,"in contradiction from those"arising under the laws of the United States"?
1404It may be asked, Why, then, could not a time have been fixed in the Constitution?
1404It may be asked, perhaps, what has so long kept this disjointed machine from falling entirely to pieces?
1404Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
1404May he have no connections, no friends, for whom he may sacrifice it?
1404Must it of necessity be admitted that this power is infringed, so long as a part of the old articles remain?
1404Or are they the inflammatory ravings of incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts?
1404Or shall we say they may be continued as long as the danger which occasioned their being raised continues?
1404Or to what purpose would it be established, in reference to one branch of the legislature, if it could not be extended to the other?
1404Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?
1404Or, if such a trial of firmness between the two branches were hazarded, would not the one be as likely first to yield as the other?
1404Shall domestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures?
1404Shall it be a week, a month, a year?
1404Shall the Union be constituted the guardian of the common safety?
1404Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not the same thing happen?
1404The remaining inquiry is: Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense-- a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?
1404The same house will possess the sole right of instituting impeachments: is not this a complete counterbalance to that of determining them?
1404The true question to be decided then is, whether the smallness of the number, as a temporary regulation, be dangerous to the public liberty?
1404They must therefore depend on the information of intelligent men, in whom they confide; and how must these men obtain their information?
1404This is the form in which the comparison is usually stated to the public: but is it a just form?
1404To what purpose then require the co- operation of the Senate?
1404To what purpose would it be to authorize suits against States for the debts they owe?
1404Upon what principle, then, ought they to be taken into the federal estimate of representation?
1404What answer shall we give to those who would persuade us that things so unlike resemble each other?
1404What are the MEANS to execute a LEGISLATIVE power but LAWS?
1404What are the advantages promised to counterbalance these disadvantages?
1404What are the characters which practice has stamped upon it?
1404What are the chief sources of expense in every government?
1404What are the proper means of executing such a power, but NECESSARY and PROPER laws?
1404What are to be the objects of federal legislation?
1404What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force?
1404What difference can it make in point of expense to pay officers of the customs appointed by the State or by the United States?
1404What equitable causes can grow out of the Constitution and laws of the United States?
1404What has occasioned that enormous accumulation of debts with which several of the European nations are oppressed?
1404What is a LEGISLATIVE power, but a power of making LAWS?
1404What is a power, but the ability or faculty of doing a thing?
1404What is the ability to do a thing, but the power of employing the MEANS necessary to its execution?
1404What is the liberty of the press?
1404What is the power of laying and collecting taxes, but a LEGISLATIVE POWER, or a power of MAKING LAWS, to lay and collect taxes?
1404What is the reason on which this proverbial observation is founded?
1404What is the spirit that has in general characterized the proceedings of Congress?
1404What more could be desired by an enlightened and reasonable people?
1404What more desirable or more essential than this quality in the governors of nations?
1404What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors?
1404What relation is to subsist between the nine or more States ratifying the Constitution, and the remaining few who do not become parties to it?
1404What shall we think of the motives which could induce men of sense to reason in this manner?
1404What signifies a declaration, that"the liberty of the press shall be inviolably preserved"?
1404What then are we to understand by the objection which this paper has combated?
1404What then( it may be asked) is the use of such a provision, if it cease to operate the moment there is an inclination to disregard it?
1404What time shall be requisite to ascertain the violation?
1404What will be the conclusion?
1404What will be the consequence, if we are not able to avail ourselves of the resource in question in its full extent?
1404What would be the probable conduct of the government in such an emergency?
1404What, but that he might be unequal to the task which the Constitution assigns him?
1404What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the institution itself?
1404What, then, are the distinctive characters of the republican form?
1404When armies are once raised what shall be denominated"keeping them up,"contrary to the sense of the Constitution?
1404Whence is the dreaded augmentation of expense to spring?
1404Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent?
1404Where in the name of common- sense, are our fears to end if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbors, our fellow- citizens?
1404Where is the standard of perfection to be found?
1404Where more desirable or more essential than in the first magistrate of a nation?
1404Whether any part of the powers transferred to the general government be unnecessary or improper?
1404Whether the entire mass of them be dangerous to the portion of jurisdiction left in the several States?
1404Which the end; which the means?
1404Which was the more important, which the less important part?
1404Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives?
1404Who are to be the objects of popular choice?
1404Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or by a Cromwell?
1404Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion?
1404Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?
1404Who shall command the allied armies, and from which of them shall he receive his orders?
1404Who shall judge of the continuance of the danger?
1404Who shall settle the terms of peace, and in case of disputes what umpire shall decide between them and compel acquiescence?
1404Who would be the parties?
1404Who would be willing to stake his life and his estate upon the verdict of a jury acting under the auspices of judges who had predetermined his guilt?
1404Who would not prefer that possibility to the unceasing agitations and frequent revolutions which are the continual scourges of petty republics?
1404Why has government been instituted at all?
1404Why not amend it and make it perfect before it is irrevocably established?"
1404Why should we consent to bear more than our proper share of the common burden?
1404Why should we do more in proportion than those who are embarked with us in the same political voyage?
1404Will it be said that the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
1404Will it be said that the alterations ought not to have touched the substance of the Confederation?
1404Will it lean in favor of the landed interest, or the moneyed interest, or the mercantile interest, or the manufacturing interest?
1404Will not the landholder know and feel whatever will promote or insure the interest of landed property?
1404With what color of propriety could the force necessary for defense be limited by those who can not limit the force of offense?
1404Would Connecticut and New Jersey long submit to be taxed by New York for her exclusive benefit?
1404Would he on any occasion either have demanded or have received the like humiliation from Spain, or Britain, or any other POWERFUL nation?
1404Would it have been an improvement of the plan, to have united the Supreme Court with the Senate, in the formation of the court of impeachments?
1404Would not similar jealousies arise, and be in like manner cherished?
1404Would not the mere circumstance of freight occasion a considerable deduction?
1404Would not the principal part of its profits be intercepted by the Dutch, as a compensation for their agency and risk?
1404Would she not have been compelled to raise and to maintain a more regular force for the execution of her design?
1404Would the militia, in this supposition, be more ready or more able to support the federal authority than in the case of a general union?
1404Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error, in the first sentence, would be the parent of error in the second sentence?
1404Would they not be likely to prefer a conduct better adapted to their own immediate aggrandizement?
18After all, may not another ground be taken on which this article of the Constitution will admit of a still more ready defense? 18 Why,"say they,"should we adopt an imperfect thing?
18And how could it have happened otherwise?
18And how far does this combination characterize the plan which has been reported by the convention?
18And how far does this combination characterize the plan which has been reported by the convention?
18And it is asked by what authority this bold and radical innovation was undertaken?
18And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine?
18And what is there in all this that can not as well be performed by the national legislature as by a State legislature?
18And who is there that will either take the trouble or incur the odium, of a strict scrunity into the secret springs of the transaction?
18And who is there that will either take the trouble or incur the odium, of a strict scrunity into the secret springs of the transaction?
18And will he not, from his own interest in that species of property, be sufficiently prone to resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it?
18Are fleets and armies and revenues necessary to this purpose?
18Are not popular assemblies frequently subject to the impulses of rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and of other irregular and violent propensities?
18Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?
18Are suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people?
18Are the State governments to be stigmatized as tyrannies, because they possess this power?
18Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men?
18Are there not aversions, predilections, rivalships, and desires of unjust acquisitions, that affect nations as well as kings?
18Are they agreed, are any two of them agreed, in their objections to the remedy proposed, or in the proper one to be substituted?
18Are they not the genuine and the characteristic means by which republican government provides for the liberty and happiness of the people?
18Are they not the identical means on which every State government in the Union relies for the attainment of these important ends?
18Are they only to be met with in the towns or cities?
18Are we afraid of foreign gold?
18Are we entitled by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi?
18Are we in a condition to resent or to repel the aggression?
18Are"the wealthy and the well- born,"as they are called, confined to particular spots in the several States?
18But SUSPICION may ask, Why then was it introduced?
18But a right implies a remedy; and where else could the remedy be deposited, than where it is deposited by the Constitution?
18But are they not all that government will admit, and that human prudence can devise?
18But could an appeal be made to lie from the State courts to the subordinate federal judicatories?
18But does it follow because there is a power to lay them that they will actually be laid?
18But even in that case, may he have no object beyond his present station, to which he may sacrifice his independence?
18But have they considered whether a better form could have been substituted?
18But is it a just idea?
18But is not the fact an alarming proof of the danger resulting from a government which does not possess regular powers commensurate to its objects?
18But it may be again asked, Who is to judge of the NECESSITY and PROPRIETY of the laws to be passed for executing the powers of the Union?
18But might not his nomination be overruled?
18But ought not a more direct and explicit provision to have been made in favor of the State courts?
18But the question again recurs, upon what pretense could he be put in possession of a force of that magnitude in time of peace?
18But upon what principle is the discrimination of the places of election to be made, in order to answer the purpose of the meditated preference?
18But was it necessary to give an INDEFINITE POWER of raising TROOPS, as well as providing fleets; and of maintaining both in PEACE, as well as in war?
18But what inference can be drawn from this, or what would they amount to, if they were not to be supreme?
18But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
18But what is to be the object of this capricious partiality in the national councils?
18But what would be the contest in the case we are supposing?
18But where are the means to be found by the President, or the Senate, or both?
18But whether made by one side or the other, would each side enjoy equal advantages on the trial?
18But why is the experiment of an extended republic to be rejected, merely because it may comprise what is new?
18But why, it is asked, might not the same purpose have been accomplished by the instrumentality of the State courts?
18But will not this also be possessed in sufficient degree by a very few intelligent men, diffusively elected within the State?
18But would not her navigation be materially injured by the loss of the important advantage of being her own carrier in that trade?
18By way of answer to this, it has been triumphantly asked, Why not in the first instance omit that ambiguous power, and rely upon the latter resource?
18By what means is this object attainable?
18Can it be said that the limits of the United States exceed this distance?
18Can not the like knowledge be obtained in the national legislature from the representatives of each State?
18Could the Supreme Court have been relied upon as answering this description?
18Do the monitors deny the reality of her danger?
18Do these fundamental principles require, particularly, that no tax should be levied without the intermediate agency of the States?
18Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of their intended usurpations?
18Do they deny the necessity of some speedy and powerful remedy?
18Do they require that the members of the government should derive their appointment from the legislatures, not from the people of the States?
18Do they require that the powers of the government should act on the States, and not immediately on individuals?
18Do they require that, in the establishment of the Constitution, the States should be regarded as distinct and independent sovereigns?
18Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril for the preservation of our political existence?
18Does the American impose on the Congress appropriations for two years?
18Does the British Constitution restrain the parliamentary discretion to one year?
18For what inducement could the Senate have to concur in a preference in which itself would not be included?
18For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
18From what quarter can the danger proceed?
18Had not Congress repeatedly recommended this measure as not inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Confederation?
18Had not every State but one; had not New York herself, so far complied with the plan of Congress as to recognize the PRINCIPLE of the innovation?
18Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war?
18Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals?
18Has not the spirit of commerce, in many instances, administered new incentives to the appetite, both for the one and for the other?
18Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies?
18Have they, by some miraculous instinct or foresight, set apart in each of them a common place of residence?
18Have we not had unequivocal experience of its effects in the course of the revolution which we have just accomplished?
18Here another question occurs: What relation would subsist between the national and State courts in these instances of concurrent jurisdiction?
18How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad?
18How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?
18How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful?
18How can perfection spring from such materials?
18How can the trade between the different States be duly regulated, without some knowledge of their relative situations in these and other respects?
18How could recoveries be enforced?
18How could the Senate confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing their right of negative upon his nominations?
18How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?
18How far can they be combined with those other ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense?
18How far can they be combined with those other ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense?
18How shall we prevent a conflict between charity and judgment?
18How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity?
18How would it be possible to agree upon a rule of apportionment satisfactory to all?
18How, and when, and in what proportion shall aids of men and money be afforded?
18How, in fact, could a majority in the House of Representatives impeach themselves?
18I ask, What are these principles?
18If any question is depending in a State legislature respecting one of the counties, which demands a knowledge of local details, how is it acquired?
18If it should break forth into a storm, who can insure us that in its progress a part of its fury would not be spent upon us?
18If one was attacked, would the others fly to its succor, and spend their blood and money in its defense?
18If the latter, in what relation will they stand to the national tribunals?
18If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism, what need of the militia?
18If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?
18If this be their true interest, have they in fact pursued it?
18If, on the contrary, we ought to exceed this point, where can we stop, short of an indefinite power of providing for emergencies as they may arise?
18Immediately after this clause follows another in these words:"The President shall have power to fill up??
18Immediately after this clause follows another in these words:"The President shall have power to fill up??
18In relation to what objects?
18In what does our security consist against usurpation from that quarter?
18In what manner is this influence to be exerted?
18Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?
18Is a law proposed concerning private debts?
18Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land a symptom of national distress?
18Is an indefinite power to raise money dangerous in the hands of the federal government?
18Is an indefinite power to raise troops dangerous?
18Is another object of a bill of rights to define certain immunities and modes of proceeding, which are relative to personal and private concerns?
18Is commerce of importance to national wealth?
18Is it a fair comparison?
18Is it here that suspicion rests her charge?
18Is it improper and unsafe to intermix the different powers of government in the same body of men?
18Is it not designed as a method of NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men?
18Is it not( we may ask these projectors in politics) the true interest of all nations to cultivate the same benevolent and philosophic spirit?
18Is it particularly dangerous to give the keys of the treasury, and the command of the army, into the same hands?
18Is it possible that foreign nations can either respect or confide in such a government?
18Is it possible that the people of America will longer consent to trust their honor, their happiness, their safety, on so precarious a foundation?
18Is it probable that such a combination would exist at all?
18Is it supported by REASON?
18Is it to be presumed that any other State, at the same or any other given period, will be exempt from them?
18Is it to be presumed, that at any future septennial epoch the same State will be free from parties?
18Is it true that force and right are necessarily on the same side in republican governments?
18Is not a want of co- operation the infallible consequence of such a system?
18Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory?
18Is not the power of the governor, in this article, on a calculation of political consequences, greater than that of the President?
18Is not this the true light in which it ought to be regarded?
18Is private credit the friend and patron of industry?
18Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger?
18Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard against foreign encroachments?
18Is the CONSEQUENCE from this doctrine admissible?
18Is the administration of justice between the citizens of the same State the proper department of the local governments?
18Is the aggregate power of the general government greater than ought to have been vested in it?
18Is the danger apprehended from the other branches of the federal government?
18Is the doctrine warranted by FACTS?
18Is the importation of slaves permitted by the new Constitution for twenty years?
18Is the power of declaring war necessary?
18Is the power of raising armies and equipping fleets necessary?
18Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a numerous and enlightened nation?
18Is this to be exclusive, or are those courts to possess a concurrent jurisdiction?
18It has also been asked, what need of the word"equity What equitable causes can grow out of the Constitution and laws of the United States?
18It has been asked, what is meant by"cases arising under the Constitution,"in contradiction from those"arising under the laws of the United States"?
18It may be asked, Why, then, could not a time have been fixed in the Constitution?
18It may be asked, perhaps, what has so long kept this disjointed machine from falling entirely to pieces?
18Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
18May he have no connections, no friends, for whom he may sacrifice it?
18Must it of necessity be admitted that this power is infringed, so long as a part of the old articles remain?
18Or are they the inflammatory ravings of incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts?
18Or shall we say they may be continued as long as the danger which occasioned their being raised continues?
18Or to what purpose would it be established, in reference to one branch of the legislature, if it could not be extended to the other?
18Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?
18Or, if such a trial of firmness between the two branches were hazarded, would not the one be as likely first to yield as the other?
18Shall domestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures?
18Shall it be a week, a month, a year?
18Shall the Union be constituted the guardian of the common safety?
18Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not the same thing happen?
18The remaining inquiry is: Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?
18The same house will possess the sole right of instituting impeachments: is not this a complete counterbalance to that of determining them?
18The true question to be decided then is, whether the smallness of the number, as a temporary regulation, be dangerous to the public liberty?
18They must therefore depend on the information of intelligent men, in whom they confide; and how must these men obtain their information?
18This is the form in which the comparison is usually stated to the public: but is it a just form?
18To what purpose then require the co- operation of the Senate?
18To what purpose would it be to authorize suits against States for the debts they owe?
18Upon what principle, then, ought they to be taken into the federal estimate of representation?
18We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor government.1 Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?
18What answer shall we give to those who would persuade us that things so unlike resemble each other?
18What are the MEANS to execute a LEGISLATIVE power but LAWS?
18What are the advantages promised to counterbalance these disadvantages?
18What are the characters which practice has stamped upon it?
18What are the chief sources of expense in every government?
18What are the proper means of executing such a power, but NECESSARY and PROPER laws?
18What are to be the objects of federal legislation?
18What colorable reason could be assigned, in a country so situated, for such vast augmentations of the military force?
18What difference can it make in point of expense to pay officers of the customs appointed by the State or by the United States?
18What has occasioned that enormous accumulation of debts with which several of the European nations are oppressed?
18What is a LEGISLATIVE power, but a power of making LAWS?
18What is a power, but the ability or faculty of doing a thing?
18What is the ability to do a thing, but the power of employing the MEANS necessary to its execution?
18What is the liberty of the press?
18What is the power of laying and collecting taxes, but a LEGISLATIVE POWER, or a power of MAKING LAWS, to lay and collect taxes?
18What is the reason on which this proverbial observation is founded?
18What is the spirit that has in general characterized the proceedings of Congress?
18What more could be desired by an enlightened and reasonable people?
18What more desirable or more essential than this quality in the governors of nations?
18What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors?
18What relation is to subsist between the nine or more States ratifying the Constitution, and the remaining few who do not become parties to it?
18What shall we think of the motives which could induce men of sense to reason in this manner?
18What signifies a declaration, that"the liberty of the press shall be inviolably preserved"?
18What then are we to understand by the objection which this paper has combated?
18What then( it may be asked) is the use of such a provision, if it cease to operate the moment there is an inclination to disregard it?
18What time shall be requisite to ascertain the violation?
18What will be the conclusion?
18What will be the consequence, if we are not able to avail ourselves of the resource in question in its full extent?
18What would be the probable conduct of the government in such an emergency?
18What, but that he might be unequal to the task which the Constitution assigns him?
18What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the institution itself?
18What, then, are the distinctive characters of the republican form?
18When armies are once raised what shall be denominated"keeping them up,"contrary to the sense of the Constitution?
18Whence is the dreaded augmentation of expense to spring?
18Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent?
18Where in the name of common- sense, are our fears to end if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbors, our fellow- citizens?
18Where is the standard of perfection to be found?
18Where more desirable or more essential than in the first magistrate of a nation?
18Whether any part of the powers transferred to the general government be unnecessary or improper?
18Whether the entire mass of them be dangerous to the portion of jurisdiction left in the several States?
18Which the end; which the means?
18Which was the more important, which the less important part?
18Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives?
18Who are to be the objects of popular choice?
18Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or by a Cromwell?
18Who can give it any definition which would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion?
18Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?
18Who shall command the allied armies, and from which of them shall he receive his orders?
18Who shall judge of the continuance of the danger?
18Who shall settle the terms of peace, and in case of disputes what umpire shall decide between them and compel acquiescence?
18Who would be the parties?
18Who would be willing to stake his life and his estate upon the verdict of a jury acting under the auspices of judges who had predetermined his guilt?
18Who would not prefer that possibility to the unceasing agitations and frequent revolutions which are the continual scourges of petty republics?
18Why has government been instituted at all?
18Why not amend it and make it perfect before it is irrevocably established?"
18Why should we consent to bear more than our proper share of the common burden?
18Why should we do more in proportion than those who are embarked with us in the same political voyage?
18Will it be said that the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
18Will it be said that the alterations ought not to have touched the substance of the Confederation?
18Will it lean in favor of the landed interest, or the moneyed interest, or the mercantile interest, or the manufacturing interest?
18Will not the landholder know and feel whatever will promote or insure the interest of landed property?
18With what color of propriety could the force necessary for defense be limited by those who can not limit the force of offense?
18Would Connecticut and New Jersey long submit to be taxed by New York for her exclusive benefit?
18Would he on any occasion either have demanded or have received the like humiliation from Spain, or Britain, or any other POWERFUL nation?
18Would it have been an improvement of the plan, to have united the Supreme Court with the Senate, in the formation of the court of impeachments?
18Would not similar jealousies arise, and be in like manner cherished?
18Would not the mere circumstance of freight occasion a considerable deduction?
18Would not the principal part of its profits be intercepted by the Dutch, as a compensation for their agency and risk?
18Would she not have been compelled to raise and to maintain a more regular force for the execution of her design?
18Would the militia, in this supposition, be more ready or more able to support the federal authority than in the case of a general union?
18Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error, in the first sentence, would be the parent of error in the second sentence?
18Would they not be likely to prefer a conduct better adapted to their own immediate aggrandizement?
40613Or any part thereof?
40613Prints and pictorial illustrations?
40613There is absolutely no restriction, as you understand it, to- day?
40613A fraudulent reprint, for instance?
40613Accessible and uncovered?
40613After all, it resolves itself down to a mere question of contract?
40613All personal baggage is included also?
40613All right;"To sell, distribute, exhibit, or let for hire,"etc.?
40613And I am to have an hour after that?
40613And I would like to know, if you have given the thing any thought, if there is any suggestion you could make?
40613And he can not give that public performance unless he has paid Mr. Sousa his royalty?
40613And he would have the further protection of the copyright of the music as it goes into the phonograph, would he not?
40613And in that respect it would cut out the music- roll proposition altogether?
40613And it does not extend to any edition that may be produced and sold abroad?
40613And let it follow your remarks in the record?
40613And make it a penitentiary offense?
40613And may I ask also, Mr. Chairman, if it is your intention to continue these proceedings this afternoon?
40613And no particular association?
40613And nobody else has published any of your music in six or seven years?
40613And the cutting out of the right of the individual?
40613And the gentlemen and concerns you represent desire the law to remain in that condition?
40613And then such restrictions as may be embodied in that phraseology?
40613And whatever his brain, and his talent, and his gift has brought forward, you are entitled to use?
40613And who may secure it?
40613And why should you not be protected in yours?
40613And would it cover and prevent a case of covering it up?
40613And you want it passed just as it is?
40613And your petition?
40613Any public performance is prohibited, is it not, by that law?
40613Are there any other gentlemen to be heard now?
40613Are there people that can read that roll-- that is, the same as Mr. Sousa can pick up that piece of music there[ indicating] and read that music?
40613Are these contracts for royalty made to include a possible extension of the copyright?
40613Are you reading from the printed form of the bill?
40613Are you satisfied with the bill?
40613As applied to everybody else?
40613As to the privilege of importation without the consent of the American copyright proprietor, etc.?
40613Because it will not let you reproduce works published and copyrighted in the future?
40613Before 1891?
40613But any public performance is prohibited by the law of 1897?
40613But by somebody?
40613But can anybody tell me, if you please, sir, or will anybody tell us, what those notes are?
40613But can you think of any other instance where publication would mean something else than those things?
40613But is it not in the same nature?
40613But they could not be copyrighted until they were reduced to writing, could they?
40613But what subjects that he takes in San Francisco can we include as a series and have protected?
40613But what would be a"series?"
40613But you do not advertise it as being played by Sousa''s band?
40613But you think you state their views on the subject?
40613By how much?
40613By whom?
40613Can I say a word, sir, on that point?
40613Can not the publisher provide against all that by the contract he makes?
40613Can you call attention to that section?
40613Can you do that to- day?
40613Can you finish what you desire to say regarding the provisions of this bill in five minutes additional?
40613Can you give the citation of the decision that you have mentioned?
40613Can you give us an illustration of the respect in which the mere copyrighting of the music roll will do all that?
40613Can you import two copies of an unauthorized edition?
40613Can you suggest an amendment to carry out your idea in the matter?
40613Can you tell us whether in case the word"lithograph"is put in there, it might be necessary to put in the words"etching"and"engraving?"
40613Could it not be on the back and be still uncovered on the back?
40613Could not a competing talking machine company immediately reproduce those records?
40613Could not that be said to be a plate within the meaning of this act?
40613Could you not go right on and publish and sell that book?
40613Could you not obtain that information at the office of the Librarian?
40613Did any of you ever inquire of us whether they were doing so?
40613Did you ask even as to the character of the provisions?
40613Did you ask us for it?
40613Did you communicate with the Copyright Office in any way in the matter?
40613Did you even ask whether such a bill would be likely to include any such provisions?
40613Did you get any other permission than the purchase of the sheets?
40613Did you get any special permission to perform?
40613Did you hear any opposition to this bill from the attorney of the Victor Talking Machine Company?
40613Did you notice that, Mr. O''Connell?
40613Did you publish the English book?
40613Did you suggest"visible"?
40613Did you then ask leave to come to the next conference?
40613Do I understand that all the opponents of the provisions of this law relative to talking- machine devices can be heard within one hour?
40613Do I understand you to contend that the Librarian should be charged with any special duty in that regard, for the registry of the copyright?
40613Do I understand you to say that that book trust is still in operation?
40613Do I understand you to say that you have no connection with that band?
40613Do you appear for the importers?
40613Do you approve in all respects the bill as introduced in the Senate and House?
40613Do you contend that it is beyond the power of Congress to make that roll copyrightable?
40613Do you contend that this provision would apply where the publisher had no interest in the publication beyond the ordinary time of copyright?
40613Do you desire to be heard by the committee?
40613Do you feel that you are authorized to speak for the others?
40613Do you feel that you represent the other importing firms?
40613Do you imagine that a book would ever be imported by an individual under that provision?
40613Do you know what the practice of the Treasury Department is now?
40613Do you mean lately?
40613Do you mean subsection E?
40613Do you mean to say that this contract is an improper one to make?
40613Do you not argue unfairly when you undertake to bring in the Library as against the proposition?
40613Do you not publish those in series for selling purposes sometimes?
40613Do you not thereby exclude everything else?
40613Do you not think, then, if you want that sort of an amendment to section 18 that you should also amend section 4?
40613Do you object to the word"accessible"here, on line 10?
40613Do you pay him for it?
40613Do you play for anyone else besides the Victor Talking Machine Company?
40613Do you regard anything back behind that as ancient history?
40613Do you represent the Æolian Company?
40613Do you think a hundred years is a limited time within the meaning of the Constitution?
40613Do you think that is necessary to the efficiency of a public library?
40613Do you think they ought to be printed in the record of the meeting?
40613Do you think you should do that without compensating him for the genius he displayed?
40613Do you think, though, that"accessible and uncovered"means putting it on the front of the painting or photograph?
40613Do you understand that he is not obliged to give notice during the intervening period?
40613Do you understand that this bill proposes to interfere with existing patent rights?
40613Do you want to deny any statement that he has made?
40613Do you wish to deny that you are a musical colossus?
40613Does any gentleman here think we ought to legislate along that line?
40613Does each want one hour?
40613Does he desire to be heard if the committee is in favor of them?
40613Does not section 13 provide that the man who makes the affidavit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor?
40613Does the law provide for the registration of the title in advance of the deposit of copies as at present-- a valuable privilege?
40613Does the new law specifically require all titles to be also in English?
40613Does this affect records already made?
40613Does"similar work"include dramatic composition?
40613Excuse me just a minute, Mr. Ogilvie; will you permit, Mr. Chairman, the register to say a word?
40613Fifty years?
40613For instance, Who is an author?
40613For whom do you appear, Mr. Ogilvie?
40613From the present interpretation of the law there is not any doubt in the world, then, but what this is a restriction?
40613Had you no notice that there was going to be a conference?
40613Has anybody else published any of your music?
40613Has it the right to change a situation which has existed since 1789?
40613Has that been settled by the courts?
40613Have they any credentials to this effect?
40613Have you any idea?
40613Have you heard any opposition from the National Phonograph Works-- the Edison Company-- in regard to this bill?
40613Have you suggested your amendment to this section 14 that some word instead of"accessible"should be used?
40613Have you the form of an amendment which you propose?
40613He already has the protection of the copyright on his sheet music, has he not?
40613He is protected on his writings as you are on your discovery?
40613He raised the question of jurisdiction in his reply, did he not?
40613His reply?
40613How about copyright?
40613How about engravings?
40613How about the word"visible?"
40613How can law prevent Mr. Sousa from making a contract with the Æolian people or any other concern that he may desire to deal with?
40613How could the licensee have any interest in the copyright beyond the life of it?
40613How does that effect us?
40613How far do you wish that protection to extend?
40613How have the public any means of determining whether"the bulk"of the books has contained a notice of copyright?
40613How long ago?
40613How long have you been with him?
40613How long would you want?
40613How many can we get into a series and have the court protect us when we come to try a case?
40613How many desire a hearing?
40613How many times have you gotten certificates now?
40613How may the exclusive right to do them be secured?
40613How much time do you wish, Mr. Davis?
40613How much time do you wish, Mr. Walker?
40613How much time do you wish?
40613How will you describe it in your entry upon the book?
40613How will you describe the 365 views?
40613How?
40613I asked, then,"A fraudulent reprint, for instance?"
40613I asked,"Can you do that to- day?"
40613I know that; but the point is, What does the word"publication"here mean?
40613I mean to say, that can be read by persons understanding the same language?
40613I suppose the other amendments are simply to follow if the first amendment is approved?
40613I understand that you think that it ought to be on all authorized editions of books?
40613I understood your objection on that page 4 and this last one is that the word"print"does not cover a lithograph?
40613I was going to ask, How do you get Mr. Sousa''s pieces?
40613I would like to ask you if you understand the practice to be as Mr. Cutter states?
40613If it could be worked out along the lines suggested, you would not object to that?
40613If the contract for the copyright does not provide as between the author and the publisher for any renewal, what position would you be in then?
40613If the copyright had been assigned, the original proprietor would have lost all interest in the copyright; would he not?
40613If the words"only in pose or composition"were stricken out, would there be a material reduction in your fees?
40613If this law is passed, could you not do that?
40613If you introduce that who will decide what is the same general subject, except the courts?
40613Importations solely by the proprietor of the copyright-- not by individuals?
40613In a general way, what is your idea?
40613In all cases?
40613In both cases?
40613In other words, it decided that in that case special acts constituted a publication?
40613In regard to libraries?
40613In subsection 3 there is still another new restriction, is there not?
40613In the application for the renewal of the copyright?
40613In the first place, it seems to me that it would be convenient for us to know-- how many copyright entries do you make in the course of a year?
40613In what respect?
40613Is Mr. Davis here?
40613Is it impossible to suppose that some publishers would do that when they carefully provide against going to the penitentiary for committing perjury?
40613Is it not ordinarily understood to be the putting on sale of the object?
40613Is it not time Uncle Sam should arouse?
40613Is it the criminal remedy that is provided by this bill that would give the protection you need?
40613Is not that so?
40613Is not that the purpose of it?
40613Is not the real reason that if it protects you and other composers, there is an incentive to you to compose?
40613Is that a matter of printed record?
40613Is that in this bill or the present law?
40613Is that question addressed to me?
40613Is that right?
40613Is that the reason, now, why you say it will destroy your invention?
40613Is that your argument?
40613Is that your point, now?
40613Is that your understanding-- that it can not be, and that this is an extension of the privilege?
40613Is the bill as it is drawn at present satisfactory to you?
40613Is the proposed notice to be given orally, or by publication on a programme, if there is a programme?
40613Is there a disadvantage in putting it three years?
40613Is there any definite suggestion that you could make, any definite change, so as to convey your idea?
40613Is there any doubt that he will await his opportunity for finding a large stock in the hands of the alleged infringer?
40613Is there any doubt which remedy he will elect?
40613Is there any government that grants a patent or copyright for more than fifty years that you know of?
40613Is there any opinion in conflict with that?
40613Is there not danger in making such definition?
40613Is there objection to that?
40613Is your idea of expressing and defining"publication"for the purpose of limiting the word"publication?"
40613It did not define what publication was any more than that?
40613It does not affect anything at all that you have done before?
40613It does not apply to pieces that you play on those machines now, though, even if they are now copyrighted, does it?
40613It does so in more than two respects, does it not?
40613It held that that constituted publication?
40613It is a notation of tone, then?
40613It is a sufficient injury, so that you think it ought to be restricted?
40613It is on the sheet, is it?
40613It is right as it is, as we understand?
40613It would be the Librarian, so far as your fees were concerned?
40613It would be the Librarian, would it not?
40613Just an incident: The talking machine company that pays a singer gets no protection on that record under the law, either, does it?
40613Just what do you want to strike out?
40613Just what was that amendment?
40613Let me ask you this: Do you not do any series work, or is it only that you do not do work in a series under this limitation as to pose or composition?
40613Mark Twain, for instance, instead of Samuel L. Clemens?
40613May I ask you your opinion as to whether or not the word"writings,"referred to in article 8 of the Constitution covers these rolls?
40613May I correct the statement of the Librarian, Mr. Chairman?
40613May I deny that?
40613May I have just one moment?
40613May Mr. Bostwick state as to that, Mr. Chairman?
40613Might not the courts construe that definition as covering all classes of publications?
40613Mr. Bonynge said:"Would you prevent the man who sang into your phonograph, or talked into it, from singing or talking into any other?"
40613Mr. Chairman, I wish to inquire whether the committee is willing to sit also on Saturday to continue the hearings?
40613Mr. Chairman, may I ask Mr. Bethune to state whether, under the present law, the notice can be put on the mount of a photograph?
40613Mr. Chairman, may I interrupt one moment?
40613Mr. Davis, of course you mean that that would happen if you published something after the passage of this act that was copyrighted?
40613Mr. Putnam, is Mr. Davis here now?
40613Mr. Register, to what extent is that done?
40613Mr. Solberg, yesterday, when Mr. Cutter was testifying, I asked him this question:"Can you import two copies of an unauthorized edition?"
40613Mr. Walker, had you intended to speak specifically about the provisions of this bill?
40613Mr. Walker, have you in mind the exact language of the Constitution?
40613My best- known compositions are''Doris,''''Ambolena Snow,''''Douglas Club Two- step,''''Who Will Buy My Roses Red?''
40613My great song,''Who Will Buy My Roses Red?''
40613Naturally, I have a perfect right to go around to my friends and get the best offer I can, have I not?
40613No particular establishment?
40613No; but suppose the person injured lives in the Philippine Islands?
40613Not by anybody connected with the Congress?
40613Not the exclusion of the entire fee?
40613Now, if it is on the back, is the word"visible"descriptive?
40613Now, is Mr. Sousa present?
40613Now, right there, without any intention to be facetious, do you not think that fifty years is sufficient?
40613Now, you are a lawyer?
40613Of the entire paragraph?
40613Of what character?
40613On page 16?
40613On page 2?
40613On what page?
40613Or of the Sandwich Islands, or Porto Rico?
40613P.S.--Will you please send me an extra copy of the bill, or two if you have them to spare?
40613Page 16 of the library print?
40613Protection in what way?
40613Section 21?
40613Section 25, sir?
40613So that if you strike out"under permission given by the proprietor of the American copyright"it satisfies them?
40613So that it would read"his violation?"
40613So that that paragraph of that section as it stands is satisfactory to you?
40613So that we will get"El Capitan"from the phonographs in various places?
40613Subdivision(_ g_) on page 2?
40613Suppose in the case you have referred to you began to publish this book without any knowledge that it was protected by copyright?
40613Suppose the bill should provide for the life of the contract, together with any extension thereof?
40613Suppose the church bought it?
40613Suppose we define publication in the manner you suggest, would there not be difficulty in cases not covered by that definition?
40613Suppose we except those views?
40613Thank you; and may I submit later the evidences and proofs to which I have referred?
40613That book had two different titles, you say?
40613That is a restriction, then?
40613That is page 12, line 18, is it not, Mr. Chaney?
40613That is so as to that particular thing, but if there is someone who wishes to be heard on some other point, why not hear him now?
40613That is still another restriction?
40613That is the decision that has already been put in the record?
40613That is your position, is it not?
40613That is, there was an English publication under one title and an American publication under a different title?
40613That is,"To make, sell, distribute, or let for hire any device, contrivance,"etc.?
40613That machine engraves lines corresponding to what?
40613That minority is a very strong one, is it not?
40613That starts in on page 4 and concludes on page 14?
40613That was prior to 1891?
40613That was the decision that was distributed yesterday?
40613That would protect the artists?
40613That you should get those books immediately?
40613The English book was copyrighted in the United States?
40613The effect of your argument is, then, to limit the word to something that can be read by anybody?
40613The fundamental provisions of the copyright law are therefore these four: What is the subject- matter?
40613The individuals are cut out, are they not?
40613The life is fourteen years?
40613The musician may memorize that music, and may entertain an audience with it, but he can not sing it into a phonograph; is that it?
40613The number of books is reduced from two to one?
40613The publisher replies:"Very well; you want me to join in the securing of that extension, do you?"
40613The statement is that you have a band that plays into these instruments, and you, I understand, have denied that?
40613The works that are issued carry a notice, do they not?
40613The Æolian Company, as the law stood, did not have to pay to musical publishers a cent?
40613Then it is paid for when you get these records?
40613Then what concern is it to us, who are engaged in framing this bill, about that contract?
40613Then why change the penalty in this law?
40613Then would the competing concerns be able to use their instruments at all?
40613Then you understand that Mr. Cutter is right in what he says?
40613Then you would favor the defendant rather than the complainant in such a case?
40613Then you would insert, after the word"prints,"in line 4, on page 4, the word"lithographs?"
40613Then you would strike out all of section 15?
40613Then your suggested amendment,"uncovered,"does not meet this objection, which you now state, at all?
40613Then, in the interest of the working people of the United States, you would prefer to have the law left just as it is now?
40613Then, is it not high time that we were giving it a little wider construction than that?
40613Then, is it understood that I am to speak first to- morrow morning?
40613Then, it is simply a question of your receiving the royalty that you think you are entitled to?
40613There is absolutely no restriction, as you understand it to- day?
40613They are protected in their inventions?
40613They ask us"just what entries did we make in May last?"
40613This is not a case of ignorance of the law; you think it is a case of ignorance of fact?
40613This would allow you to import, however, but one book, whereas you have had the privilege of importing two?
40613To what extent do you now issue certificates?
40613To what section of this bill do you now refer?
40613Under existing law is the proprietor of the American copyright seriously injured by these importations?
40613Under existing law, is it necessary for the manufacturer to do more than I have stated?
40613Under that word"writing"you want to exclude such people as Mr. Sousa entirely from its operation in respect to self- playing musical instruments?
40613Under the old law, I mean?
40613Under what section of this law?
40613Upon the third point,"How may the right be secured?"
40613Vested rights?
40613Was that the proposition that is now a part of the bill?
40613Was that your idea?
40613Was the exhibition given for hire, for profit?
40613Was the subject- matter different?
40613Was there anything inherently wrong in that?
40613Was this matter taken up at the conferences?
40613We would understand, would we not, that that was a practical prohibition of importations by individuals?
40613Well, why should you object to the word"uncovered"--"accessible and uncovered?"
40613Well, will you tell me what this means--"shall not invalidate the copyright?"
40613Well,"this bill affects the future,"but has it the right to affect the future?
40613Were there any importations before 1881?
40613Were there any importations of such books?
40613Were they identically the same book?
40613Were you present at the hearing yesterday?
40613What are the acts?
40613What are the expenses of the office?
40613What are the new remedies given to the artists by the provisions of this bill?
40613What are you referring to; what term?
40613What change would you suggest in subsection G?
40613What changes in this bill do you suggest?
40613What do you say about the case of the gentleman who just preceded you-- the lawsuit into which he got himself?
40613What do you say to that suggestion, Mr. Putnam and Mr. Solberg?
40613What do you say to the amendment suggested by the gentleman who last spoke?
40613What do you understand that to mean?
40613What do you understand the word"works"to mean in section 4?
40613What effect does this section have?
40613What happens?
40613What is fair use?
40613What is it that makes that graphophonic record valuable?
40613What is publication in the case of works not reproduced in copies for sale?
40613What is the length of your contract that you usually make?
40613What is the longest period granted by any government, that you recall, for a copyright?
40613What is the meaning of it?
40613What is the necessity for three years?
40613What is the necessity of an advance in the fee?
40613What is the object of your having those certificates?
40613What is the protection by the terms of this bill that is given you?
40613What is the reason assigned for uniting these two fees in one; do you know?
40613What is the section?
40613What is this monopoly?
40613What is written on the sheet?
40613What is your first subheading there that you are going to talk from?
40613What is your position, then, if that is not your position?
40613What is your suggestion on that?
40613What is your suggestion?
40613What is your suggestion?
40613What makes the difference?
40613What page is that?
40613What provision is there in this law to reimburse me for having innocently done that which, under the law, apparently I had a perfect right to do?
40613What reason is given for that request?
40613What section has that effect?
40613What section is that, Mr. Remich?
40613What section?
40613What section?
40613What value would these various records have if my march was not on them-- if I had never written that march?
40613What was his reply, if you remember?
40613What was his reply-- raising questions of law?
40613What was the answer that he got from the office of copyright?
40613What was the argument or the reasoning of the court in the latter decision?
40613What was their object in getting a decision of the court which would force them to pay large sums to the musical publishers?
40613What we would like to know is, would it enable you to enter a great many of these articles under one fee that you now enter separately?
40613What were the gross receipts of the Copyright Office for the last fiscal year?
40613What will be the result if these features of the bill are put through?
40613What would you file in the copyright office?
40613When it says that it shall only apply to works published and copyrighted in the future?
40613When you say,"To any book published abroad,"beginning on page 16,"with the authorization of the author or copyright proprietor,"what does that mean?
40613Where is that in section 18, that you may copyright under an assumed name?
40613Where is the section that prescribes the form?
40613Where is your next point?
40613Where should it be?
40613Where the copyright has run out?
40613Where would you put it?
40613Whereabouts?
40613Which title did you publish under?
40613Who does?
40613Who is the gentleman that desires to be heard further?
40613Who is the next witness?
40613Who is your publisher?
40613Whom do you represent?
40613Whom do you represent?
40613Whom do you represent?
40613Whom do you represent?
40613Whom do you represent?
40613Whose consent should be required?
40613Why does the Victor Talking Machine Company come here with such a virtuous show of regard for the author, and say they have no objection to this?
40613Why is not the representative of the Edison Company-- the National Phonograph Works-- here opposing this bill?
40613Why is that so?
40613Why not leave that the old two- year limit?
40613Why not, Mr. Davis?
40613Why should he?
40613Why should it be extended to three years?
40613Why should less be required of the claimant to copyright than is required of the claimant to patent right?
40613Why should less proof be required of one claiming copyright as proprietor?
40613Why should not the author claiming copyright be subject to a similar requirement?
40613Why should this new provision be inserted?
40613Why should we leave it out?
40613Why should you put a music roll into the category of paintings, statues, or sculptures at$ 10, rather than into the other category?
40613Why that exception?
40613Why, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, should you impose a penalty of$ 10?
40613Will you describe them as 365 views of the churches of Rome, or will you specify them under one head?
40613Will you gentlemen give them that opportunity?
40613Will you not put it on the record at this point?
40613Will you not state your name and who you represent?
40613Will you please state your name, Mr. Bowker, your residence, and whom you represent?
40613Will you send that to the committee?
40613Will you state where you find that in that section?
40613Will you suggest an amendment that will meet your idea?
40613Will you tell us, briefly, how you would strengthen the present law?
40613With that stricken out, the people you represent would not object to sections 26, 27, 28, and 29?
40613With the consent of the copyright proprietor?
40613Without any consideration whatever?
40613Would it cover the back?
40613Would it not be a considerable inconvenience to secure the permission of the proprietor of the copyright?
40613Would it run up into thousands?
40613Would not the copyrighting of this phonograph record give the musician, say Mr. Sousa, double protection?
40613Would that apply to a magazine picture-- a picture in a magazine that had the notice on the back of the original?
40613Would that be satisfactory to the people whom you represent?
40613Would that preclude any part of that edition being imported?
40613Would you like to amend that?
40613Would you not think that would give the publisher an undue advantage over the author?
40613Would you object to Mr. Sousa taking your invention and combining it with his composition and putting it upon the market?
40613Would you think the terms of this bill, then, are right?
40613Yes; but that very clause gives the same incentive and protection to the musical author, does it not, as to the inventor?
40613Yes; but there are various other restrictions embodied in the bill, are there not?
40613You accept that as an addition to your amendment?
40613You advertise it as a march by Sousa as a composer, but played by somebody else as the executant?
40613You allow your name to be used all over the country?
40613You are a publisher, are you?
40613You are aware of the fact that if you undertake to define"publication"you do limit it to whatever you say it is?
40613You are going to file a copy of it, are you not?
40613You are really talking against your own interests as a publisher just now?
40613You are referring simply to section 13?
40613You are satisfied with the bill as it stands?
40613You can file the proof, can you not, Mr. Walker?
40613You could hardly set the right up at auction, could you?
40613You could not put it on the back, where it would be uncovered?
40613You did not understand that it was supposed that the works issued were to be exempt from the notice upon them of copyright, did you?
40613You do not mean that?
40613You do not object to the 50 cents for the fee and 50 cents more for the certificate?
40613You do not understand, though, Mr. Davis, that this act will destroy any of your vested rights at present, do you?
40613You have an interest in the band and receive profit from it?
40613You have how many minutes?
40613You have no idea of being protected any more than any other concern?
40613You make an entire distinction, as I understand it?
40613You mean also to include, I suppose, a brief expression from these people as to their objections, and to what their objections related?
40613You mean, then, that section 3 is the section that interferes with them?
40613You object to that entire part of the bill, do you?
40613You refer to section 13?
40613You suggest inserting after"original""before publication, exhibition, or offering for sale?"
40613You suggest that we leave out this last proviso absolutely?
40613You think it ought to be against the law for some people to attempt to do it, do you not, Mr. Sousa?
40613You think it should be inserted there after the word"print,"again?
40613You think that includes it?
40613You think the language of the bill as it is is too broad?
40613You turn to any book, and what do you find on the page immediately following?
40613You wait three years instead of fifty, and where would we be?
40613You want it to read"accessible and uncovered"?
40613You want the word"accessible"kept in just as it is now?
40613You would be satisfied without its amendment?
40613You would confine that to some other official, then; would you?
40613You would not object to paying a reasonable royalty if that right was given to all upon the same terms?
40613You would put in the word"uncovered?"
40613You would strike out"recoveries"and insert"suits?"
40613Your suggestion, then, is to reduce the fee prescribed in section 60 from$ 1 to 50 cents?
40851Is there any alternative,says this printer,"between an abandonment of the constitution and resistance?"
40851What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? 40851 relying with perfect confidence in the Executive"--is this the language of the constitution, as it respects any man?
40851218; amendment will defeat the bill, 218; shall the territory remain defenceless?
40851453; all the evidence necessary should be obtained, 453; extraordinary resolution-- was the President clerk of the court?
40851679; what evidence that the Intendant is not authorized by the Spanish or French Government?
40851681; what is the state of things?
4085169; this country not equal to support a navy, 69; how can such a navy, be manned?
40851A question was then taken in the following words: Does the matter so communicated require secrecy?
40851Admitting it, I asked then, and I ask now, with what propriety it could be used, even in that sense, in the resolution referred to?
40851Admitting there was such a law, what could the House do?
40851Admitting they could hold it, what security would they have for their commerce?
40851After knowing these facts, will gentlemen have the hardihood to call this a hasty measure?
40851Again, if such a Navy were created, how was it to be manned?
40851Against whom they were to be employed?
40851Against whom, then, are we to arm?
40851Although they may differ in political opinion, as many of us do, is that any reason we should attempt to destroy their reputation?
40851Although this all might be mere matter of opinion, would it not come within the meaning of the law in question?
40851Am I so to consider it?
40851And are gentlemen to be here accused for exercising the constitutional right of election according to the conviction of their own judgments?
40851And are not the emigrations composed of such as require the prompt assistance of the law, to preserve among them regularity?
40851And are not these men property?
40851And are the maxims of experience to become false, when applied to our fate?
40851And are the people to be told that this is a trifling question?
40851And are they pledged for the payment of the public debt?
40851And are they, therefore, in this House to be confounded with each other?
40851And are we not in war?
40851And are we to be told from the house- tops, that the only use of elections is to promote, not public good, but public mischief?
40851And can it be justifiable in the eyes of men, who believe there is nothing so precious or important as national honor?
40851And can there be a greater, a more patriotic purpose than this?
40851And could a potent State be alarmed by the unfounded claim of a single person?
40851And do the citizens of the United States, he asked, wish their First Magistrate to be placed in this situation?
40851And does not the doctrine of our opponents prove that, at every change of administration, the number of your judges are probably to be doubled?
40851And during the time that Holland was separated from the dominion of Spain, was war declared in consequence of any nation trading with Holland?
40851And has England gained nothing by the war?
40851And here, sir, let it be asked, why should a Government that means well, or is confident in its uprightness and ability, ever fear the press?
40851And here, sir, let me ask, are not these privileges all that are necessary?
40851And how can the truth of things which can not be proved by evidence, be determined by evidence?
40851And how has he proved this?
40851And how is it to be effected?
40851And if granted, why not grant it without assigning reasons, as well as with assigning them?
40851And if so, could any thing afford a more lasting cause for war than an act of this kind?
40851And if the money is to be raised by taxes, to what objects can we turn our attention?
40851And if they are, does that committee mean to impose upon this House, as upon the people of some parts of the Union?
40851And if they can hear in them, can not the stenographers also?
40851And if they could delegate the power of raising an army to the PRESIDENT, why not do the same with respect to the power of raising taxes?
40851And if they have no objection, why go into a Committee of the Whole; which, if gone into, must be with closed doors?
40851And if they violate the law, where can we apply for redress but to our courts of justice?
40851And if this be important in the general course of things, is it not, under present circumstances, indispensable?
40851And if to either sum, can we with propriety dispense with the internal taxes?
40851And in these circumstances, said he, are the people of the United States to be led on from step to step, until they are irrevocably involved in war?
40851And is not the tenure as completely impaired thereby, as if the other had been taken away also?
40851And is not this most proper?
40851And is the irritation consequent upon the laying of taxes worn off?
40851And may they not, instead of giving their judges two thousand dollars a year, give them two hundred thousand?
40851And must the Executive in every such case make a new appointment?
40851And now that we have gained it, shall we fall from our honor?
40851And on the question on the second division, to wit: Whether so much as provides that the third article shall be expunged, shall stand?
40851And ought a man to be permitted to slander the Government and not an individual?
40851And ought his descendants to be more hardly dealt with because their father had the generosity and magnanimity not to make the demand?
40851And shall not we, as a nation, thank him for keeping us from a state of war?
40851And shall not we, with our great and increasing resources, and the peculiar advantages of our situation, be able to effect still more?
40851And shall we hesitate?
40851And shall we now, when there is no right reason for it, lay hold of the public Treasury, and lavish away$ 14,000?
40851And shall we, for this reason, monopolize a revenue upon it?
40851And then, Is there a Seminary so near the spot contemplated, as to make it hostile in this House to encourage this University?
40851And though we were a commercial Republic, was it not necessary to take care of the agricultural interest?
40851And upon what terms are we to cope with the powers of Europe with respect to any navy?
40851And was Rigaud punished by France for thus exercising his power or not?
40851And was it to be considered, he asked, that they enjoyed the powers committed to them in their own right, as barons of empire, as sovereign despots?
40851And was that salary, he asked, near so valuable now as it was when fixed?
40851And was this, he asked, a subject of regret?
40851And what are these cases?
40851And what courts?
40851And what have they got to do?
40851And what have they said?
40851And what object or consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind?
40851And what objection could there be to the inquiry?
40851And what was all this power that so much alarmed the gentleman from Massachusetts?
40851And what was the object?
40851And what will be the result of this?
40851And what would be the remedy if he should refuse to comply?
40851And what, he asked, did these expenses amount to?
40851And what, in either case, would become of this boasted protection of the people against themselves?
40851And when we all agree in this, whence the necessity of calling up the animosities of party?
40851And whether help can be extended by law to the one, and consistently refused to the other?
40851And whether it had not been in the contemplation of that gentleman, as well as others, to pay as much as they could yearly?
40851And whether none of them in the Legislature never voted for the resolutions about the western land, nor about post- offices and post- roads?
40851And whether the Executive is not hastening it?
40851And who are the judges?
40851And why is all this to be done?
40851And why shall our judges not ride the circuits?
40851And why were they told this?
40851And will gentlemen act upon this as a sufficient reason for their conduct?
40851And would any gentleman say it was not right to defend our vessels against pirates?
40851And would any one say that it would be proper to rise without providing a military defence for the country?
40851And would it not be extraordinary, he asked, if, before they received these statements, they were to appoint a committee of inquiry?
40851And would not the opening of intercourse with such a place, by relieving the distresses of France, defeat the original intention of the law?
40851And would this, he asked, be doing honor to the Republican Government?
40851And would you take up arms with a millstone hanging around your neck?
40851And yet, after being told of these designs, shall we sit with our arms folded, and make no defence?
40851And, because Congress had a right to enact such a law, would gentlemen say it was for the benefit of trade?
40851And, if Mr. Gerry had powers to treat, how could it be criminal to say that he might treat?
40851And, on motion to agree thereto, a motion was made for the previous question, to wit:"Shall the main question be now put?"
40851And, on the question on the first division, to wit: Whether so much as provides that the second article shall be expunged, shall stand?
40851And, on the question on the fourth division, to wit: Whether that part shall stand which provides a limitation of time to its duration?
40851And, on the question on the third division, to wit: Whether that part shall stand which restrains it from operating against former treaties?
40851And, on the question,"Shall these words stand?"
40851And, on the question,"Will the Senate advise and consent to the adoption of this article?"
40851And, said Mr. G., do we really rely upon this?
40851And, whether to deny it, in this instance, would not be to interfere with that provision of the constitution?
40851Any thing to ruin the country?
40851Are a majority of this House so degraded, so mean, so destitute of honor or morality, as to act at the nod of a President?
40851Are gentlemen disposed to wage war in support of this principle?
40851Are gentlemen then afraid to trust to the discretion of the President?
40851Are gentlemen unwilling to indemnify for such losses?
40851Are gentlemen unwilling to trust themselves, lest their own consciences should compel them to an act of justice?
40851Are gentlemen''s opinions and language thus to be circumscribed?
40851Are honorable gentlemen prepared to accept peace on such terms?
40851Are not its members acting under a responsibility to public opinion, which can and will check their aberrations from duty?
40851Are not the jurisdictions of those courts separate and distinct?
40851Are not those who voted against it fairly to be considered as enemies to the law?
40851Are not, said Mr. G., these papers important to the House?
40851Are not, said Mr. O., the galleries constructed for the express purpose of hearing?
40851Are our arguments to fly from the mouths of our cannon?
40851Are our means equal to hers?
40851Are there any words in that instrument which give the President expressly the power of removing any officer at pleasure?
40851Are there words in the English language more explicit?
40851Are these approaches to revolution and Jacobinic domination, to be observed with the eye of meek submission?
40851Are they apprehensive lest he should communicate that which is improper?
40851Are they not intended for the good people of the United States?
40851Are they paid exclusively by the wealthy and the luxurious part of the community?
40851Are they prepared to repeal the act to which I now refer?
40851Are they willing to let it rest, and lose it?
40851Are we bound hand and foot that we must be witnesses of these deadly thrusts at our liberty?
40851Are we never to be clear of these alarms?
40851Are we then to resort to the ultimate reason of kings?
40851Are we to be the unresisting spectators of these exertions to destroy all that we hold dear?
40851Are we to be told by the gentleman from Virginia, there is no occasion for this call; that we have information enough?
40851Are we to form an exception to the general principles of nature, and to all the examples of history?
40851Are we to legislate for succeeding ages?
40851Are we to see all these acts practised against the repose of our country, and remain passive?
40851Are we to suppose he is unwilling to inform us what they are?
40851Are we to suppose the Executive has not been vigilant in ascertaining the circumstances attending this event?
40851Are we valiant?
40851Are we wise?
40851Are you certain that they will wait the end of negotiation?
40851As to the State which he represented, he would ask if the first blood that had been spilled after that shed at Boston was not in North Carolina?
40851At a time when the enemy''s vessels are within our own jurisdiction, are we to withhold the necessary instructions to the commanders of our vessels?
40851At that day, did we hastily go to war?
40851Attacked and insulted as we had been, do we now, asked Mr. D., call for war?
40851Because they have been once injured with impunity, shall we turn our backs upon them for ever?
40851Because, as our opponents would fain have it believed, we are insensible to the vast interest affected by the obstruction of the Mississippi?
40851Besides, has he the power to do so, in the manner then suggested by the gentleman from Virginia by taking possession of New Orleans?
40851Besides, said Mr. B., were the rates of compensation, when first established, established upon this principle?
40851Besides, said Mr. G., could it be expected that six or ten frigates could convoy all our vessels?
40851Besides, what is the population of the Southern States?
40851Bound to obey what law?
40851Brought to this dilemma, said he, which side will you take?
40851But I ask gentlemen to be candid, and tell me whether they are at this time equally divided?
40851But an extreme case is put; a bill of attainder is passed; are the judges to support the constitution or the law?
40851But are printers at liberty to tell lies about our transactions?
40851But are we always to act by precedent?
40851But are you not the guardians of the public treasure?
40851But by what energy is the constitution to be destroyed?
40851But can it be necessary to give this Senate any other assurance than my word?
40851But can liberty, such as we understand and enjoy, exist in societies where the few only have property, and the many are both ignorant and licentious?
40851But can you examine each distinct case?
40851But could America lay up her ships, and say she would open her ports to all nations?
40851But did the framers of the constitution stop here?
40851But did the gentleman suppose that a war with France could be flattering to pride or ambition?
40851But does this bill, said Mr. S., contemplate any such thing?
40851But gentlemen say, where are your expenses?
40851But had Spain a right to make this cession without our consent?
40851But he would ask if this were the case, if it would not lead directly to war?
40851But how are these objects effected?
40851But how did the case really stand?
40851But how did we vote on the motion for agreeing to the following clause?
40851But how is that gentleman to have foundation for his reflections until a bill is drawn?
40851But how shall we account for the exception which is now exhibited to this hitherto received maxim?
40851But how was this law adopted?
40851But how?
40851But how?
40851But if the evidence was not reported, how could he say that all the witnesses might not again be called before the House?
40851But if the gentleman insisted opinions could not be false, how would he get rid of the conclusion?
40851But if, on the contrary, they coolly looked into the petition, and reported thereon, would it not stop the mouths of these people?
40851But if, sir, they have offended against the constitution or laws of the country, why are they not impeached?
40851But is it unconstitutional to assign new duties to officers already existing?
40851But is this Legislative power in Great Britain usurped by construction?
40851But is this the peace which we ought to seek?
40851But no, said the gentlemen,"We will not have it examined into, because it will make us out to be as_ black_ as the petitioners themselves?"
40851But of what avail will this be, when Congress may take it away at any moment?
40851But ought this to be said of the subject under consideration?
40851But should we persist under such a possibility of mistake, what do we risk?
40851But suppose it was now in possession of a foreign power, would Georgia attempt to drive them from it?
40851But suppose, said Mr. S., this independence were to take place, would all the danger to this country actually take place which has been stated?
40851But suppose, sir, you agree to divide these States, where is the boundary to be?
40851But supposing there are yet a number of them, what better use can our public armed vessels be put to than to go after them?
40851But the gentleman from South Carolina says, this is the cheapest mode of defence; but does the gentleman prove this?
40851But the question arises, whether a violation of the treaties on the part of France is, of itself, sufficient for setting them aside?
40851But this settlement is now objected to, and what is to be done?
40851But was it necessary these persons should at once become entitled to take a part in the concerns of our Government?
40851But was this the sense of the country?
40851But were they always to expect to have a PRESIDENT who would give his services to his country?
40851But what have we to do with their domestic broils?
40851But what inducement will there be to moneyed men to lend money, except a permanent revenue be made the security?
40851But what is the fact?
40851But what security have we for the truth of the declaration?
40851But what was all this to the United States?
40851But what was now to be done?
40851But what was the issue of this negotiation?
40851But what was the issue of this proposition?
40851But what was the result of experience?
40851But what were the terms upon which they proposed to cede it?
40851But what, said Mr. G., is the language of this section?
40851But what, sir, did the gentleman mean by his X, Y, Z?
40851But when?
40851But where did that gentleman learn that Holland has no navy?
40851But where is the evil complained of?
40851But where was the blame, if any could attach?
40851But where was the crime, the offence, or the impropriety, of the conduct ascribed to the Executive, if it had been adopted?
40851But wherefore this exhibition of a zeal so inordinate as to arrogate to itself all sensibility to the national welfare?
40851But who will say that the crew of a British frigate on the high seas, are within the peace of the United States?
40851But why have they trusted to the imaginary collision of sentiment between the Governor and Intendant of New Orleans?
40851But why is she in that situation?
40851But why speak of British inhumanity, if not to embarrass this bill?
40851But why was the army mentioned on this occasion, unless to fore- warn us of the fate which awaits them, and to tell us that their days are numbered?
40851But why, he asked, do these men come here in a body?
40851But why, say gentlemen, fix precisely one Supreme Court, and leave the rest to Legislative discretion?
40851But why?
40851But will it be pretended that a person can commit misprision of treason who can not commit treason itself?
40851But will the House thus be acted upon?
40851But will the gentleman say, that whenever we ask information, we conclude upon measures?
40851But will this alter the justness of my position?
40851But would this have been right?
40851But would this have done?
40851But, as this is not the case, as we are only asked to permit its encouragement, by allowing these people to receive benefactions, how can we refuse?
40851But, he asked if the gentleman from Virginia knew the reason why this amount to France appeared so large?
40851But, he asked if the loss we sustained for the want of a naval power could be estimated?
40851But, he would ask them, if, independent of land with its improvements, they possessed any other species of property which could not be eluded?
40851But, in any view, are the sins of the former judges to be fastened upon the new Judicial system?
40851But, it is said, will you suffer a printer to abuse his fellow- citizens with impunity, ascribing his conduct to the very worst of motives?
40851But, said he, shall we fear that we shall be called upon to pay a few more just debts?
40851But, say gentlemen, where will you find revenue?
40851But, sir, are the Secretaries unworthy of confidence?
40851But, sir, are we not as deeply interested in the true exposition of the constitution, as the judges can be?
40851But, supposing the law constitutional, is the crime an infamous one?
40851But, taking things as they are, what course, on this point, is most fair and tolerant?
40851But, to return, was there any thing criminal in that paragraph?
40851But, upon what ground, said Mr. G., do the advocates of this report prove that 11 is not three- fourths of 14?
40851But, what was the fact?
40851But, why had it been so?
40851But, why two, Mr. B. queried, rather than three?
40851By the laws of what nation would the contract be governed?
40851By what are those armies to be opposed?
40851By what authority can any court render such a judgment?
40851By what inspiration could the gentleman form a judgment now?
40851By what law then would such a contract be governed?
40851By what means was this to be accomplished?
40851By whom has this outrage been offered?
40851Can I, said Mr. J., represent as effectually Massachusetts, or Vermont, as Pennsylvania?
40851Can any other meaning be applied to the words"from time to time?"
40851Can any thing essential, any thing more than mere ornament and decoration, be added to this by robes and diamonds?
40851Can gentlemen hear these things and lie quietly on their pillows?
40851Can he commit and imprison without a trial?
40851Can he prove that £10,000,000 sterling is only the third part of the expense of defence, as he says?
40851Can he then be trusted with the government of others?
40851Can it be any thing more than the right of uttering and doing what is not injurious to others?
40851Can it be done without power?
40851Can it be expected that any country will be peopled as fast, from a nation at the distance of three thousand miles, as our Western country has been?
40851Can it be possible, sir, that the gentleman was really serious when he talked about an injury to women and children?
40851Can it be shown, or even said, that the judgment of the court was a false construction of the constitution?
40851Can it be, that an act, which, if perpetrated by an individual, would be robbery, can be justifiable in a nation?
40851Can it have this effect?
40851Can it mean that an office may exist, although its duties are extinct?
40851Can it mean, in short, that the shadow, to wit, the judge, can remain, when the substance, to wit, the office, is removed?
40851Can it mean, that his tenure should be limited by behaving well in an office which did not exist?
40851Can not the logical talents of the gentleman from Massachusetts( Mr. BACON) distinguish between information and measures?
40851Can stones show gratitude?
40851Can the honorable gentleman be serious in all this?
40851Can the usefulness or convenience of any acquisition justify us in taking from another by force what we have no sort of right to?
40851Can this admission make us responsible for the conduct of men we do not know, and over whom we have no control?
40851Can we expect any thing from their justice, or, rather, have we not every thing to expect from their vengeance, if not prepared to meet it?
40851Can we expect this, said Mr. N.?
40851Can you impair its force by impeaching the motives of any member who voted for it?
40851Could any gentleman conceive that these were not too great powers to be intrusted to any State whatever?
40851Could any gentleman pretend to say that no inference might be drawn from this source and the concomitant facts?
40851Could any man desire to place the citizens of the District in such a state?
40851Could any office be at the same time in the possession of two persons?
40851Could any possible inconvenience accrue from allowing him to obtain the information he desired?
40851Could gentlemen be serious in making this objection?
40851Could gentlemen hear it and not shudder?
40851Could he say we were at peace with them now?
40851Could he use the public force to redress our wrongs?
40851Could his successor, on the receipt of his commission, exercise the functions of judge, prior to the resignation of the former incumbent?
40851Could it be necessary then to_ increase_ courts when suits were_ decreasing_?
40851Could it be necessary to multiply judges, when their duties were diminishing?
40851Could it then be supposed these gentlemen could, in this instance, so change their opinion?
40851Could it, then, with any reason be called premature to act upon such information?
40851Could the President proceed further, even if he thought more vigorous measures proper and expedient?
40851Could the Speaker desire this?
40851Could the framers of the constitution intend to guarantee, as a sacred principle, the liberty of lying against the Government?
40851Could they alone go to war with France and Spain?
40851Could they declare a law of North Carolina null and void?
40851Could they fear injustice when opposed to a feeble individual?
40851Could they hold Orleans, were they to take possession of it, without the aid of the United States?
40851Could this be correct?
40851Could this be liberty?
40851Could this give offence, because we feel pleasure in being at peace?
40851Could we refuse a tribute of respect to a man who had served his country so much?
40851Could, then, gentlemen talk of moral obligation, and say that this was a just debt?
40851Dangerous to Europe and to the world, what will be the effect of a great increase of that power?
40851Did a nation ever make a declaration that it was not at war?
40851Did any thing appear in the conduct of the French Directory to show that our Ministers were not possessed of ample powers?
40851Did gentlemen mean that if we should make use of force against lawless violence, it is war?
40851Did gentlemen want an age to express an opinion which every member feels-- which the whole nation feels?
40851Did he carry his purpose into effect?
40851Did he mean to set all slaves at liberty, or receive petitions from all?
40851Did he not embark his all for this country?
40851Did he then ask any thing which was unreasonable or improper?
40851Did his constituents, he asked, wish this?
40851Did not he know that the doctrine applied to the Senate as well as to that House?
40851Did not our situation, and the circumstances in which we stand, compel us to turn our attention to this object?
40851Did not the United States trade with all the nations of the earth?
40851Did not the gentleman know that the most solemn decision had taken place last session on this subject, by a large majority?
40851Did not the gentleman''s friends immediately state the impropriety of passing those resolutions?
40851Did not the insolvent laws of the Southern States hold out the same allurements to fraud as the general bankrupt law?
40851Did not the members of the convention know that a great quantity of public treasure would be drawn together into this place?
40851Did not the silence of the bill on this point show the ignorance of gentlemen?
40851Did not this go to sanction a report which was as false and malignant as even jacobinism could invent?
40851Did the acts of cession by the States, and of acceptance by Congress, take away the jurisdiction of those States, and vest it in Congress?
40851Did the city afford the Government a defence?
40851Did the gentleman mean to insinuate, that this war was invited by the United States?
40851Did the gentleman suppose that the number would be so great as to make a demand on their seats?
40851Did the military send its aid?
40851Did the people of America vest all power in the Legislature?
40851Did the people?
40851Did the petition go any farther than this?
40851Did they attempt to counteract the Executive?
40851Did they imagine that, without the expression of a murmur by them, the mover would himself rise and oppose his own motion?
40851Did they know how far we would reduce the Army, the Navy, or the Judiciary?
40851Did they not consider the number of persons attached to the Government worthy of the special regard of the national Legislature?
40851Did they not hold them under the Spanish Government?
40851Did they rest here the most important branch of our Government?
40851Did they risk on these grammatical niceties the fate of America?
40851Did those gentlemen consider what it was to deprive the country of a rich mine of ship timber?
40851Did we drive them to the measures that made such immense expenditures of the public money necessary?
40851Did we object to a syllable contained in this part of the resolution?
40851Did we refuse our assent?
40851Did we then hesitate?
40851Did we then make war?
40851Did we then wait for foreign alliance?
40851Do gentlemen appeal to our fears, rather than to our understanding?
40851Do gentlemen mean to decide at once thus precipitately against all indemnity whatever?
40851Do gentlemen say opinions can be false which do not contain matter of fact?
40851Do gentlemen themselves think that the persons, whom I see around me, ought to be trusted with such powers?
40851Do not gentlemen know that our Government is in possession of testimony, demonstrating beyond all kind of doubt, that this is not the fact?
40851Do not gentlemen know that peace or war is not in our power?
40851Do not the people in this territory hold them as such?
40851Do not we know that we may safely rely upon them?
40851Do they imagine that any particular place can be assigned to which they can ensure a profound silence, and from which every person can be withheld?
40851Do they mean to prevent the publication of their sentiments to their constituents and to the world?
40851Do we not every day call upon particular officers to perform duties not previously assigned to, or required of them?
40851Do we not hear of depredatory threats, and the mischiefs she has the power of doing us, urged as reasons why we should submit to her?
40851Do we not know, said Mr. B., that he is among the persons proscribed by France?
40851Do we not see the nation with whom we are at variance find quarrels with every country who is not strong enough to resist her?
40851Do you not tremble when you look at it?
40851Do you prefer peace to independence?
40851Does any body expect any thing from the terrible generosity of the Great Nation?
40851Does any gentleman on this floor know who confined him, or by order of what government?
40851Does he mean to say that Congress did wrong in funding the public debt?
40851Does he mean to say that the price of our liberty and independence ought not to have been paid?
40851Does he remember when we passed this law?
40851Does he wish unreasonable concessions to be made?
40851Does it affect the case?
40851Does it alter the fact?
40851Does it embrace any point of fact on which a committee is to make inquiry?
40851Does it follow, that a law is bad because all those who concurred in it can not give good reasons for their votes?
40851Does it not rather appear as if they intended to alienate the affections of the people from their Government, in order to effect their own views?
40851Does it not say that the agents must be under the Government of France?
40851Does it result that we have a right to pass a law beforehand to contemplate such an event?
40851Does not the President refer to them as important to enlighten us?
40851Does not the power that cedes give up all right whatever to that which accepts?
40851Does not the selection of the best objects to which to appropriate it devolve on you?
40851Does not this look as though the United States are to patronize and support the establishment?
40851Does not this manifest precipitation?
40851Does not this show that the gentlemen themselves have not confided in the estimate of the artist?
40851Does she not injure us on every side?
40851Does such a commission empower one to exercise the functions of the whole in opposition to the opinions of his colleagues?
40851Does the gentleman by this mean to give the lie to the Executive?
40851Does the gentleman from Connecticut recollect the words of that decree?
40851Does the gentleman say opinions can not be false?
40851Does the gentleman wish to suppress the history of the political events of 1776?
40851Does this mean, said he, that there are a majority of members in this House who must always be in the right, and a minority always in the wrong?
40851Does this question involve an inquiry either into matter of expediency or of fact?
40851Else why was the provision for exclusive jurisdiction made?
40851Establish thus the dependence of the Judiciary Department, who will resort to them for protection against you?
40851For by what rule of evidence could he discover and know what was really the writer''s belief?
40851For fear of_ offending_ foreign nations we are not to ask or know what is our relative situation with such nations?
40851For what do we ask?
40851For what purpose was this great mass to be raised?
40851For what purpose, said he, should they be finished, unless it were intended to man them?
40851For what, sir, are elections held, if it be not that the people should change their representatives when they do not like them?
40851For what?
40851For when the powers and duties are taken away, what, let me ask, is left but a salary?
40851From whence do they derive their authority?
40851From whence, said Mr. V., is this reasoning drawn?
40851From whom is a corrupt decision most to be feared?
40851Gentlemen asked whether war is not approaching?
40851Gentlemen catch at this; but what is it but an attempt to arrest the arm of the Government of this country, just when it was about to strike a blow?
40851Gentlemen say, we are happier than though we were at war; are we at peace?
40851Had Congress, then, a right to do any thing to bind the sovereignties of the independent States?
40851Had any objection been made to the old Congress under the Confederation, that was federally organized, for the want of talents or integrity?
40851Had not the citizens lived happily for a hundred years under the State Governments?
40851Had she no navy in the American war, when with great gallantry, though with unequal success, she fought the English at sea?
40851Had the public affairs been conducted with less ability than they are at present?
40851Had they not an equal right to be heard with other petitioners?
40851Has a great man reason to fear from a poor one?
40851Has a nation a right to put these States in a dangerous situation?
40851Has he any documents or proof to render the suspicion colorable?
40851Has he heard of no commercial distresses, when violations so unprecedented have of late occurred?
40851Has it been passed in a manner which wounded your pride, or aroused your resentment?
40851Has it been the practice of this Government heretofore to break lances on the spot with any nation who injured or insulted her?
40851Has the King of Spain, has the First Consul of France, no means of making such communication to the President of the United States?
40851Have not the judges, in the same manner, been deprived of one of their offices?
40851Have the French Government expressed any inclination to settle the differences subsisting between them and us?
40851Have the Senate any authority to advise him as to the faithful execution of the laws?
40851Have they not been wholly maritime?
40851Have they not seen the letter of the Governor of New Orleans to the Governor of the Mississippi Territory?
40851Have we a better prospect than that nation?
40851Have we given our vote that we would not defend the free navigation of the Mississippi?
40851Have we heretofore been considered as responsible?
40851Have we not been ready to unite in adopting those measures which the infraction of treaties and our violated rights demand?
40851Have we not heard this doctrine supported in the memorable case of the mandamus, lately before the Supreme Court?
40851Have we not passed a variety of bills which gentlemen have declared amount to war?
40851Have we not seen sedition laws?
40851Have we not uniformly adhered to the principle that those who exercise power_ de facto_ are the only persons that we are bound to recognize?
40851Have we not within these few days passed a law to prevent the importation of certain dangerous characters?
40851Have we one common language, and are we united under one head?
40851Have we such evidence as should incline us to rely upon it?
40851Have you a judiciary system extending over this immense country, matured by the wisdom of your ablest and best men?
40851Have you any thing to say in excuse or extenuation for said publication?
40851Have you here the opportunities for valuable information which might be had elsewhere?
40851Have you not done more?
40851Have you not then established a new office by the destruction of the old one?
40851Have you taxes which have been laid since the commencement of the Government?
40851Have you, said Mr. L., no greater objects to engage your attention than whether this man or that man shall go out of your bar, or remain within it?
40851He again asked, have we the means?
40851He asked if our Government did not know that nothing was to be obtained here without money?
40851He asked the decision of the question, whether, previously to offering his resolutions, the doors ought not to be closed?
40851He asked those gentlemen whether the PRESIDENT had not a right to man the frigates, and if so, whether they should not be_ obliged_ to find the money?
40851He asked whether any gentlemen in this House, who are so frequently called disorganizers, had ever broached a doctrine like this?
40851He asked whether gentlemen did not believe the Executive had taken measures which would lead to war?
40851He asked whether the United States might not as well lose revenue in the first instance, as put money into the people''s pockets to pay it with?
40851He asked whether this was consonant to the principles of the constitution?
40851He asked whether, where men wanted every thing, and were in proportion of 29 to 1, it was possible they could be trusted with power?
40851He asked, what necessity for the exercise of power by Congress?
40851He called upon gentlemen to say whether a temper of revolt was not more perceptible in that quarter?
40851He himself saw it with concern; but where was the difference in crime between the French Republic and the Emperor?
40851He should be glad to know where he saw the signature to know it?
40851He then asked if this was not the very state in which we now were?
40851He wished also to know whether it was intended that the Senate should declare that the publication was a breach of privilege?
40851He wished he could see the breasts of gentlemen now glow with the patriotism which then animated them; but, instead of this, what do we see?
40851He wished to know how a distinction was to be made on this subject?
40851He wished to know what difficulty there would have been in defining the time here referred to in this bill?
40851He wished to know what was meant?
40851He wished to know whence he derived his information?
40851He wished to know whether the House had not jurisdiction over this matter?
40851He wished to know whether the people have not a right to say, if they choose, that the administration of justice is corrupt?
40851He wished, therefore, to know what these unusual severities were which, upon our own ideas of Government, we could retaliate?
40851He would appeal to the gentleman whether it was more honorable to desert his duty and fly a vote, than to act as he had done?
40851He would ask the gentleman just up whether he knew any thing about the expense of a mausoleum?
40851He would ask the gentleman whether that act of ours should have any influence on our situation with France?
40851He would ask whether, in countries over which the Government had complete jurisdiction, worse things had not happened?
40851He would ask, Was there any thing in the name of Government, if it operated in this manner?
40851He would ask, could not an appropriation be made for the use of the Military Establishment in general terms?
40851He would ask, how, under these circumstances, a jury could be struck in a federal court in that State agreeably to law?
40851He would not deny that frauds were committed, but for this should the honest debtor be eternally fettered with his debts?
40851He would wish to know what advantage there could be in giving this legislative agency to those States?
40851Hence arises the advantages from public contributions; and would that House, he asked, refuse their assistance?
40851Here Mr. C. was called to order by Mr. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania, who inquired what the liberty of the press had to do on a question of postponement?
40851How can the retrocession be made?
40851How could any thing, then, be due to them?
40851How could he know what part would awaken that idea of disrespect?
40851How could it be fairly argued, because gentlemen desired to limit the duration of this law, that they were unwilling to defend their country?
40851How could that little island( England) command such influence in foreign dominions?
40851How could that share be estimated?
40851How could the motion be necessary-- how be useful?
40851How could they be collected?
40851How could this be, when they had no right to be deprived of?
40851How could this be?
40851How could we say what our relation is, except we determine what is our relation with respect to the treaties subsisting between the two countries?
40851How did the bankrupt law operate upon the planter?
40851How did the gentleman mean to go, and how take peaceable possession?
40851How did the matter stand?
40851How does that honorable gentleman get his information?
40851How does the gentleman from Virginia know what light this information may throw on the subject?
40851How does the matter now stand?
40851How is a naval force to guard us, which Great Britain can destroy, whenever she pleases, even in time of war?
40851How is it to operate?
40851How is that to be formed?
40851How is the independence of the judge more affected by the one act than by the other?
40851How is this question to be decided?
40851How is this to be done?
40851How long can we expect to maintain the other distinctive qualities of the magistracy of the two countries, when this sameness is established?
40851How long is it since we have discovered the malignant qualities which are now ascribed to this law?
40851How must they, then, get support?
40851How progressing?
40851How so?
40851How then can this House meddle with that part of our property?
40851How then can we commiserate with it as an unfortunate country?
40851How then can we deliberate on this subject, unless we know the degree of probability there is, that it will be carried into effect?
40851How then could it be expected that, at such a period, even the semblance of justice could be done to the subject?
40851How then could the gentleman from Pennsylvania say that Holland has no navy?
40851How was it terminated?
40851How was this to be ascertained but by inquiry?
40851How was this to be done?
40851How was this to be done?
40851How would this resolution then stand?
40851How would you bear up, not only against the force of the enemy, but against the irresistible current of public opinion?
40851How, he asked, would this operate?
40851How, he would ask gentlemen, could this be granted, and yet retained?
40851How, then, can the gentleman with truth say that we have deviated from the law of nations?
40851How, then, could the respective States of Virginia and Maryland a moment longer possess the jurisdiction?
40851How, then, he asked, could they make their observations on it as they had done?
40851How, then, he asks, can we expect to protect our commerce by a navy?
40851How, then, is the nomination of a Minister to be understood?
40851How, then, was it possible to do without accredited agents to attend to our concerns in foreign countries?
40851I ask gentlemen, what is there in the constitution to prove their signification to this end alone?
40851I ask him how he would remedy this evil as he calls it?
40851I ask you, Mr. Chairman, if any system could be devised more likely to produce vexation and delay?
40851I ask, gentlemen, is it not unfriendly and wrongful?
40851I ask, if you do not, by such treatment, put the Government entirely into their hands?
40851I ask, was this a public treaty?
40851I say, sir, these were her motives in agreeing to that measure; and did she not evince a magnanimous spirit by doing it?
40851I wish to know if the establishment of this principle requires facts?
40851If Congress can derive no solid benefit from the exercise of this power, why keep the people in this degraded situation?
40851If Congress exercise exclusive legislation, does it not follow that no other body can exercise any legislation whatever?
40851If Congress had not power to legislate on the African trade, then why did they say it was with a committee?
40851If a man is to be subject to a prosecution for his opinions, what will be the consequence?
40851If all these parties are agreed to revoke their act, I wish to know who is to dissent to it, or what obstacle can prevent its being rescinded?
40851If an opinion upon a fact be expressed, and that opinion is false, scandalous, and malicious, ought it not to be subject to prosecution?
40851If as a constitutional organ of the Government, where is the power given to the Senate?
40851If from the cabinet, are we, the representatives of the people, to obtain it from him?
40851If gentlemen are against finishing these frigates, why do they not come forward and declare it?
40851If gentlemen were then wrong, is that a reason why they should continue to act wrong?
40851If it was desirable, who could undertake it, who encourage it, like this House?
40851If it were, why pass such a bill at this time, when it could not go into operation?
40851If not, how could it be improper for us to seize the only moment which was left for the then majority to do what they deemed a necessary act?
40851If not, what did all that had been said amount to?
40851If nothing was intended but a mere incorporation, why not apply to the State that could incorporate such a body?
40851If one person in particular has the sale of his debates to this House, will it not destroy the advantages any other can derive from it?
40851If receded, what would be the situation of the Territory?
40851If the House decide that the Government is bound to relieve in one case, are they not bound to afford relief in all similar cases?
40851If the Intendant is to be controlled by the Minister, would he have taken a step so important without his advice?
40851If the United States were to become underwriters to the whole Union, where must the line be drawn when their assistance might be claimed?
40851If the debtor States were not to pay their balances, why settle the accounts?
40851If the doors shall be closed, can not we still agree to the resolution?
40851If the expense is to be provided for, how is it to be done?
40851If the gentleman from Delaware, or other gentlemen thought so, why not combat a decision at the time?
40851If the permission were once granted to one, would it not be necessary to extend it to all?
40851If the sentiments were agreeable to the minds of the House, why waste our time to alter mere expressions while the sentiment is preserved?
40851If the spirit which last session gave existence to sixteen new judges continued, who could say by what number they would be limited?
40851If there was nothing improper, why should they fear to trust the Senate with it?
40851If these expenses were to be incurred for five thousand men, what would be the expense of an Army of thirty thousand men?
40851If these sentiments were true, why not express them?
40851If they had not a right to permit it, whether they are not bound to prohibit it?
40851If they had power, where was the impropriety of referring, at least that part which could be considered?
40851If they have the right to punish libels, or false, or malicious attacks, why include them in this act?
40851If they were to pay at this rate for overlooking the timber for one ship, what might they expect would be the expense of a navy yard?
40851If they were, the only difference between us now is, what are the proper means to obtain this great end?
40851If they will not say this, must they not allow that the constitution is positive in prohibiting any change in this respect?
40851If they, then, were compelled to protect commerce, he asked if there was any other way of doing it than by a Navy?
40851If this diversity of sentiment exists, ought not the evils under the judiciary law to be very great before we touch it?
40851If this exercise were to be allowed in any case, why could it not be allowed in the present?
40851If this is the case, and the House knew it, why not say so, and make preparations accordingly?
40851If this reasoning is correct, can you repeal a law establishing an inferior court, under the constitution?
40851If this were not the intention, why resist the amendment?
40851If we agree to the resolution, do we not pledge ourselves to increase this force?
40851If we are bound by the acts of the old Congress, are we not equally bound by those of the last session?
40851If we thus give away the people''s money, said he, shall we not be charged with rapaciously putting our hands into their pockets?
40851If you destroy all law and government, can the few oppress the many, or will the many oppress the few?
40851If, said he, you incorporate men to build a University, are you not pledging yourselves to make up any deficiency?
40851In a Republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important?
40851In a court from which no one had an appeal and to whom it belonged to establish the leading principles of national jurisprudence?
40851In a court, the judges of which are appointed by the PRESIDENT, by a jury selected by an officer holding his office at the will of the PRESIDENT?
40851In making treaties he wished to know what was meant by two- thirds of the members of the Senate present?
40851In short, does it appear that even Spain herself thought it an object of any importance?
40851In what part of the constitution is it declared to be adopted?
40851In what part of the constitution is such power delegated to this House?
40851Indeed, can it, in the nature of things, be one of the rights of freemen to do injury?
40851Instead of inducing them to behave better to us, had it not been with a knowledge of this that they have offered us fresh insult and indignity?
40851Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety?
40851Is America, said he, arrived at this melancholy state?
40851Is American character worth nothing, that we should thus, in my judgment, improperly, attempt to destroy it on this floor?
40851Is a law that has received the varied assent required by the constitution, and is clothed with all the needful formalities, thereby invalidated?
40851Is he a strict common lawyer, or a special pleader?
40851Is he acquainted with chancery law?
40851Is he bold enough to denounce this measure as one of the Federal victims marked for destruction?
40851Is he prepared to say it will throw no light on this subject?
40851Is it a license to injure others or the Government, by calumnies, with impunity?
40851Is it a strange thing, I would ask gentlemen, for a State to grant charters?
40851Is it at present for the public convenience?
40851Is it because the Legislature may, at pleasure, set aside a treaty?
40851Is it less expensive for individuals, or for the public, than it would be in some of your commercial cities?
40851Is it necessary, when the whole nation is alive, to be moderate in the expression of our ideas?
40851Is it not because popular opinion was called on to decide every thing, until those who wore bayonets decided for all the rest?
40851Is it not before us?
40851Is it not natural for the people to ask why Congress do not call for this information?
40851Is it not rather a degraded state?
40851Is it not reasonable, then, that an institution of this kind should be established in that place?
40851Is it not time to gain information?
40851Is it not well known that those debts were part of the price of our Revolution?
40851Is it not your great duty to promote the public good; and can that be more completely promoted in any other way?
40851Is it possible for any man to read the constitution with attention, and then suppose that such could have been its design?
40851Is it possible that twelve thousand dollars can be necessary for the two Houses?
40851Is it proper, Mr. N. asked, for legislators to be placed on this ground?
40851Is it safe?
40851Is it the design to tell us that its day has not yet come, but is approaching; and that the funding system is to add to the pile of Federal ruins?
40851Is it the law of England, at any particular period, which is adopted?
40851Is it then for this House to say they will not attend to the petitions of our citizens?
40851Is it to be a river, or a line of marked trees?
40851Is it too much to say of such a calculation, that it is a paltry calculation, unworthy of a statesman, and befitting only a schoolboy?
40851Is murder prohibited, and may you shut a man up, and deprive him of sustenance, till he dies, and this not be denominated murder?
40851Is no punishment to be inflicted on such a person?
40851Is not this a strange situation?
40851Is not this, said Mr. N., an acknowledgment of the effect which this law will have?
40851Is our present situation calculated to produce this effect?
40851Is such a thing possible?
40851Is that a Government of laws which leaves us no security but in the confidence we have in the moderation and patriotism of one man?
40851Is that a measure of general defence which has diminished confidence in the Government and produced disunion among the States and among the people?
40851Is that formed by the constitution?
40851Is that wonderful man who presides over the destinies of France, ignorant or unmindful of these forms?
40851Is the creation of judicial officers the only thing committed to their discretion?
40851Is the gentleman really in earnest in his inquiries at this time?
40851Is the idea of a separation of these States so light and trifling an affair, as to be uttered with calmness in this deliberate assembly?
40851Is the power claimed proper for Congress to possess?
40851Is there a State in the Union which has not adopted it, and in which it is not in force?
40851Is there an offensive sentence either to the Court of Spain or the Republic of France?
40851Is there any condition annexed to the judge''s tenure of office, other than good behavior?
40851Is there any doubt that we shall not stand in need of information when we come to discuss points connected with this subject?
40851Is there no instance of a similar situation to be found in history?
40851Is there not reason to believe gentlemen hope to conceal the full extent of their principles, by bringing them into operation only by degrees?
40851Is there then nothing more?
40851Is there, then, I ask you, any other mode for perpetuating the memory of such transcendent virtues so strong, so impressive as that which we propose?
40851Is this House free from it?
40851Is this a desirable state of things?
40851Is this all our boasted acquisition, in return for the struggle we have made for our country?
40851Is this an Address or an insult?
40851Is this conciliation?
40851Is this equitable?
40851Is this fair, sir?
40851Is this not calumny of the darkest hue?
40851Is this not war?
40851Is this system so very vicious, that it deserves nothing but abhorrence and destruction?
40851Is this the case?
40851Is this the language of irritation?
40851Is this the mark of respect we ought to show to the first man in the nation?
40851Is this the way in which six hundred thousand men are to be stigmatized?
40851Is this to control succeeding rulers in their wild, their mad career?
40851Is this wise?
40851Is this, said he, a desirable state for the Legislature to be placed in?
40851It is not want of respect that should prevent us, but are we provided to go into all the consequences attending a new negotiation?
40851It is true, this place may be settled by foreigners; but can we suppose that any native citizen, who values his political rights, will come here?
40851It may be said that you print your journals; but who reads them?
40851It was a Judicial question, and the House ought not to pretend to determine the point; why, then, should they take up time upon it?
40851Let me ask if this was not a vicious construction of a court of the highest authority and greatest importance in the nation?
40851Let me ask, is there any thing in this calculated to gratify the courtly delicacy of a Castilian?
40851Let me ask, sir, what could the judges do?
40851Let me now ask, if the compensation allowed to these judges is extravagant?
40851Let the gentleman from New York classify the claims as he pleases, can he tell the extent of the demands?
40851Let the inquiry be made, of whom do the judges hold?
40851May not equal oppression be imposed upon the people by giving your judges exorbitant salaries as by increasing their numbers?
40851May not the same corrupt and unprincipled motive which would lead men to the raising of an army of judges lead them to squander the public money?
40851May they not amount to five million or ten million of dollars?
40851Might not sixty as well as sixteen, with salaries of twenty thousand, instead of two thousand dollars, be provided for in this way?
40851Might there not be other applications?
40851Mr. B. asked, would these gentlemen admit that Nash was guilty of the dreadful murders committed on board the British frigate?
40851Mr. B. said, he would inquire whether the present salaries were a reasonable and just compensation for the services performed?
40851Mr. B. wished to know to whom they are to be attached?
40851Mr. BAYARD asked for information whether it was in order for him to state that he withdrew his resolution?
40851Mr. BUCK asked if, when on the question on the resolution,( if, adopted,) a separate vote could be given?
40851Mr. COIT wished to know whether it was necessary for the United States to intermeddle with this?
40851Mr. DANA thought this a most extraordinary resolution indeed?
40851Mr. DAWSON asked if these resolutions were not necessarily connected with a subject which the House had determined should be discussed in private?
40851Mr. DAWSON inquired if the same rules that applied to the House, did not also apply to Committees of the Whole?
40851Mr. GALLATIN asked whether he understood the SPEAKER rightly, that a motion for a reference to a committee superseded a motion for postponement?
40851Mr. GALLATIN inquired from what document Mr. SMITH took his calculations?
40851Mr. GORDON wished to know what part of the resolution the gentleman from Virginia was not ready to act upon?
40851Mr. H. asked on which branch of this rule could the arguments of gentlemen be predicated?
40851Mr. HARPER asked, if the report of the committee should not be agreed to, whether the resolution might not then be agreed to?
40851Mr. HARPER had yesterday said that the impressments were few; but how were we to be certain of that?
40851Mr. HARPER inquired of the SPEAKER whether that was the usual mode of proceeding?
40851Mr. LIVINGSTON desired to know wherein he had attempted to ridicule the resources of this country?
40851Mr. MURRAY inquired when the fire happened at Lexington?
40851Mr. N. asked whether this bill did not go to the abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press?
40851Mr. N. asked whether we could ever hope to succeed in a plan of this kind?
40851Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it had heretofore been usual, in the case of a new House, to swear the members before the choice of a Speaker?
40851Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it was in order to abuse any class of citizens in this manner, and particularly since no motion was before the committee?
40851Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it would not then be in order to postpone the consideration of the subject?
40851Mr. O. inquired if the House was ready to do the first?
40851Mr. President, are we then to understand that opposition to the majority in the two Houses of Congress, is improper, is indecent?
40851Mr. R. WILLIAMS wished to know whether the new census proposed to be taken was to affect the representation as well as the tax?
40851Mr. R. said, if he had not, how was he to know whether it was good or bad?
40851Mr. RANDOLPH said he would ask the gentleman from Delaware, whether he had seen any indisposition in that House to discuss the subject?
40851Mr. S. SMITH asked if this were not the precise motion decided yesterday by the House?
40851Mr. S. asked if this mode was not perfectly just and fair?
40851Mr. SMILIE would ask whether the Supreme Court in such a case as this could be denominated an impartial tribunal?
40851Mr. SPRIGGS said it had been inquired why the Legislature of Maryland could not have granted the commissioners what they now pray for?
40851Mr. SWANWICK asked the gentleman what security there was in a peace with Algiers?
40851Mr. SWANWICK considered the question to be to this effect: whether the debates be under the sanction of the House or not?
40851Mr. W. LYMAN said, the question was, whether the House would incur the expense of$ 1,600 to supply the members with copies or not?
40851Must it be acknowledged as the prerogative of that State to impose a Chief Magistrate on the Union?
40851Must they hire a man for this purpose?
40851Must we not judge of it by its intrinsic merit?
40851Must you resort to Maryland for protection, and wait on her measures?
40851No, said he, you have not: what is your answer?
40851Now of what do courts consist?
40851Now the question is whether, if the offices are abolished, those who filled them before they were abolished are entitled to salaries?
40851Now what has the information desired by gentlemen to do with any such negotiation?
40851Now when there were no services to be performed, what salary could there be allowed, or what retribution demanded?
40851Now, sir, is it not our duty to consult our country''s interest, before we take this rash step, which we can not recall?
40851Now, suppose in the French Treaty there were the same provisions as in the British Treaty, would this have produced payment?
40851Now, what could possibly be in possession of that Department?
40851Of any resignations of the office of judge of the circuit court, in order"that a salutary system might take effect?"
40851Of what nature should these be?
40851Of what use, Mr. G. asked, had been the reference of a set of resolutions made some days ago by Mr. SITGREAVES?
40851Of whom shall your judges be independent?
40851On the other hand, what do you see?
40851On the passage of the law of last session, did we hear any protest against its unconstitutionality from the Supreme or district courts?
40851On the question whether the Senate would advise and consent to the ratification of the third article of the convention?
40851On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
40851On the question, Shall this bill pass?
40851On the question, whether the Senate would advise and consent to the ratification of the third article?
40851On the question, whether the Senate would advise and consent to the said additional article, as amended?
40851On the question,"Will the Senate advise and consent to the adoption of this article?"
40851Once take that step, and what obligation was there in Congress to remain here?
40851Or could they say that no part of the 80,000 militia, ordered to be held in readiness, would not be called into service?
40851Or does he believe that these events will be handed down in association with the bloody buoy, and Porcupine''s works?
40851Or had the PRESIDENT set a bad example, by living in a style of extravagance and splendor?
40851Or has he had time to examine whether that decree is really in force, or not?
40851Or has not the invariable course been to seek reparation in the first place by negotiation?
40851Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
40851Or is it abridged by a law to restrain lying?
40851Or is the judgment of this House so feeble, that it may not be trusted?
40851Or was he the very leader of the band that broke down these constitutional ramparts?
40851Or was the power placed in them to be exercised like other duties, according to justice and propriety?
40851Or was there a difference of right, because Virginia, with its extent and population, could make more clamor than any other State?
40851Or would it be proper to sit down, satisfied that our enemy will not invade us, though they see we are not prepared to meet them?
40851Or would they be ready to forfeit the revenue arising from it?
40851Or would you be bound to retain them, lest it should infringe a private right?
40851Or, if they could, can they find time to hear and decide causes?
40851Or, that there were in that case no measures adopted?
40851Or, will gentlemen say it was their intention to place themselves in this situation?
40851Ought it to be rejected on the ground of jurisdiction?
40851Ought not the House to be possessed of all the important information in the power of the Executive to give?
40851Ought not this person to perform the object, although the particular mode of using the means has not been prescribed?
40851Ought our country to remain in such cases dependent on foreign supply, precarious, because liable to be interrupted?
40851Ought they not, then, he asked, to devise some species of tax by which to draw some part of the revenue from the inhabitants of the back country?
40851Ought they, then, to support the doctrine which hereafter may be practised on to the full extent?
40851Ought we not to aim at harmonizing, instead of dividing our citizens?
40851Ought we not, therefore, on such a subject, to take immediate means to gain information?
40851Our trade became so insecure, that it was necessary to do-- what?
40851Patriotism could not be purchased, and should they despair of getting a man to fill the office of PRESIDENT without they increased the salary?
40851Perhaps he has formed from his own mind a proper selection for our children, and is against the press handing down any thing else?
40851Perhaps he might be asked, if we were, then, to be left without protection?
40851Put the case to its consequences, and what becomes of the check?
40851Questions arise whether both descriptions of sufferers ought not to be provided for?
40851Returning to the question of foreign political intercourse: Was it proper to bring it back to what it was eighteen months ago?
40851Shall he, and he only, have the public ear?
40851Shall it be confided to men immediately responsible to the people, or to those who are irresponsible?
40851Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
40851Shall the Speaker have the discretion of saying what debates shall be taken and what shall not?
40851Shall then a mistaken spirit of economy, and a still more mistaken jealousy arrest us?
40851Shall they obey God or Mammon?
40851Shall we abandon our duty?
40851Shall we repress truth?
40851Shall we sacrifice the interests of our constituents to a sense of politeness to these gentlemen?
40851Shall we send a Minister hampered by such a resolution?
40851Shall we shut the door against individual benevolence?
40851Shall we sit down contented under the imputation of lukewarmness in this cause?
40851Shall we thereby invite her aggressions?
40851Shall we, said Mr. D., because our seamen have been first injured by Great Britain, when France uses them still worse, abandon them?
40851Shall we, said he, treat the citizens of Savannah with more disrespect than the people of St. Domingo?
40851Should I be doing right, said Mr. G., to say that I believe that this section of the bill is an effect of that negotiation?
40851Should he, from unavoidable accidents, be cast into prison, and his family reduced to misery and distress?
40851Should we now say they should be at our direction, and that we would not grant money without?
40851Since our treaties were always made by special Envoys, what advantage could it be to have numerous Ministers Plenipotentiary in Europe?
40851Sir, after a declaration of this kind, can you retract?
40851Sir, said Mr. R., whom does this infraction of the treaty and the natural rights of this country most intimately affect?
40851So we are told!--But if there be blame, on whom does it fall?
40851Still, if the gentlemen would not agree with him as to the unconstitutionality of the measure proposed, he would ask, was it expedient?
40851Suppose Georgia had a title to this territory, had not the United States the power of depriving Georgia of it?
40851Suppose a libel were written against the PRESIDENT, where is it most probable that such an offence would receive an impartial trial?
40851Suppose a majority of_ one_ was obtained on the report, what end would be produced?
40851Suppose such an alliance was formed, would it not be said that Congress are bound to carry it into effect?
40851Suppose the PRESIDENT should, after this, appoint officers to enlist men for the frigates, how could the House refuse to pay them?
40851Suppose the persons deny your power-- how are your committee to enforce their mandates?
40851Suppose these taxes are removed, are not the products of the country increasing?
40851Suppose this power is doubted?
40851Suppose we go into a Committee of the Whole, what light can we expect from their deliberation?
40851Suppose we pass a law which calls upon the PRESIDENT to act, what ought the PRESIDENT to do?
40851Suppose you had no law at all, could the rich oppress the poor?
40851Suppose your courts of law claim cognizance as a case of libel, are you to have two prosecutions and two trials for the same offence?
40851Suppose your reliance had been altogether on this broken staff, and not on the elective principle?
40851Suppose, as the gentlemen wish, we say we will indemnify, does that pay the claims?
40851Suppose, said Mr. H., we were to give thirty thousand dollars towards this loss, what would it be when divided among the whole Union?
40851Suppose, said he, persons should claim to be Electors, who had never been_ properly_ appointed, should their vote be received?
40851Surely it would not; and is it not the duty of every good citizen to heal, as far as possible, the wounds of society?
40851That he would be punishable for concealing a treason who could not be punished for plotting it?
40851That the moment they throw off the French yoke, they will receive all the assistance from this country which a free commerce can give them?
40851The CHAIRMAN asked what Message?
40851The SPEAKER asked, whether it was the pleasure of the House that the Sergeant- at- arms should be sent for Mr. LYON?
40851The SPEAKER said the question was, whether it should be committed or not?
40851The SPEAKER said, then you do accordingly agree to this proposition?
40851The United States intend to exercise jurisdiction over that Territory, and was there any more reason for excepting this jurisdiction than any other?
40851The bill having been determined to be read a third time, the usual question was put by the SPEAKER,"For what day shall it be made the order?"
40851The charge is easily made, but has the gentleman the means of supporting it?
40851The fires at New York, Baltimore, and Charleston, had been mentioned; but what were the means of Savannah when compared with New York?
40851The first inquiry was, whether the law of nations permitted the merchant vessels of neutral nations to arm?
40851The first question was, then, whether that Administration had been marked with wisdom, firmness, and patriotism?
40851The first thing he should ask was, Is such a thing desirable?
40851The following question was then put,"Shall this bill pass?"
40851The gentleman from Connecticut had said, why send a Minister Plenipotentiary to London or Paris, any more than the other Courts?
40851The gentleman from Georgia had objected to the reference because the petition contained a system of facts which_ he said_ was not true?
40851The gentleman from New York has asked, triumphantly asked, what power exists in our courts to deliver up an individual to a foreign Government?
40851The law for authorizing the building of the three frigates?
40851The only question is, How it shall be performed?
40851The only question is, whether it will promote the taking of French privateers?
40851The only question, said he, is, if your property is unjustly attacked, will you defend it?
40851The previous question was then put in this form:"Shall the main question( viz: the resolution for reprimanding the offending members) now be put?"
40851The previous question was then put,"Shall the main question be now put?"
40851The question arises, by what tenure?
40851The question before the House was not, Will we resent it?
40851The question being,"Shall this bill pass?"
40851The question is, what power is thus to be limited and checked?
40851The question was put,"Is the decision of the Chair right?"
40851The question was then put, shall the bill pass?
40851The question was, whether the papers before them afforded reason to believe that legal evidence of the title did exist?
40851The question was, whether they were to go over the same ground every four or eight years of furnishing the house of a new PRESIDENT?
40851The second is, if further provisions are necessary, must they be made by amendment to the constitution?
40851The simple question was, which of the two grounds the House would take?
40851The true question is, were there courts enough under the old system, to do the business of the nation?
40851The truth of these despatches admitted, what was your Government to do?
40851The words are general,"all treasons, felonies,& c."Why are they confined in construction to British subjects?
40851The yeas and nays were taken on the question,"Shall this bill be postponed till the first Monday in December next?"
40851Then gentlemen get up and ask what we are to do with three frigates?
40851Then why postpone it?
40851Then, how could any gentleman say this was a trifling question, and one with which the House had nothing at all to do?
40851These are my objects; do they not entitle us to the information asked?
40851They certainly will not; for who would consent to sit here, or of what use would it be, under such conditions?
40851They could appoint Commissioners to settle the accounts, but could they impose the debts upon the States?
40851They might do, sir, for a tribe of starving Indians; but is this the rank that we are to hold among the nations of the world?
40851This being established, the inquiry was, to what department was the power in question allotted?
40851This being the case, he asked gentlemen which they would choose?
40851This is, Shall the amendment be received or not?
40851This was novel, and what result did it lead to?
40851To calm those irritations which disturb its repose?
40851To deprive them of the common right of participating in the passage of laws which all the citizens enjoyed?
40851To remove all things which may alarm, torment, or exacerbate?
40851To take a fair view of the resolutions, what did they amount to?
40851To the Judiciary: What is the language applied to them?
40851To what point, therefore, could these discussions lead?
40851To what source, then, shall we resort for a knowledge of what constitutes this thing, called misbehavior in office?
40851To what will not this dangerous doctrine lead?
40851To whom are these appearances to be made?
40851To whom are these services to be rendered?
40851To whom were they pledged, and for what?
40851Under all these grievances, what, said he, are we called upon to do?
40851Under these circumstances, Mr. S. wished to know why their petitions should not be taken into consideration?
40851Upon this subject, so very important, are they to be kept in the dark?
40851Upon what ground could he found such charges?
40851Upon what ground does the member from Vermont stand?
40851Wanting wisdom and morals, how would they use it?
40851Was a loan of money accomplished?
40851Was any gentleman in the House bound to be satisfied, with the gentleman from New York, that all the facts necessary to be known were furnished?
40851Was any gentleman prepared to say how many would be made?
40851Was contempt the way to recommend attachment to the Government?
40851Was every gentleman in the House bound to confine himself solely to the resolutions before the House?
40851Was he forgetful of his duty?
40851Was he to determine the point whether France has authorized hostilities against the United States?
40851Was he to send forward to the seat of Government to be instructed what to do?
40851Was he to stand still without making any attempt to avert the danger?
40851Was it a circumstance which must ever be remembered with mortification, and which therefore will never be forgiven?
40851Was it a desirable object to do away a great evil?
40851Was it adopted by the courts?
40851Was it announced to the President of the United States, in the usual forms of civility between nations who duly respect each other?
40851Was it by the constitution?
40851Was it conceivable that to her the place could be of any importance?
40851Was it criminal to say that the Executive is supported by a party?
40851Was it erroneous or criminal to say that debts and taxes were the ruinous consequences of war?
40851Was it in his power to repel and punish the indignity put upon the nation?
40851Was it intended by this resolution to charge the committee with inquiring into a breach of privilege as it respected the majority of this body?
40851Was it not an order to bring France to terms by distressing her islands?
40851Was it not as well to decide on this resolution in this committee as in any other committee?
40851Was it not clear to every one that the country was going fast into a state of war, and( in the words of Mr. SITGREAVES) was it not to be expected?
40851Was it not probable then, he would ask, that the PRESIDENT would proceed to complete those frigates, according to the power given him?
40851Was it not to be supposed that contracts were entered into for that purpose?
40851Was it not true?
40851Was it not, therefore, prudent to keep a watchful eye in this respect?
40851Was it possible, he asked, for a Government to exist, when this confidence was refused to one of its branches?
40851Was it proper for this country, he asked, to turn its attention towards marine strength?
40851Was it that the members of Congress were assembled on the banks of the Potomac, with Virginia in view on the other side?
40851Was it the opinion of those gentlemen that the record was to be found in the charge of murder against that illustrious character?
40851Was it the sense of that House?
40851Was it warranted by any act of Congress, or by the practice of the State?
40851Was it when three- fourths or four- fifths of a town was destroyed, or what other proportion?
40851Was it, that one of the candidates was a Virginian?
40851Was not every advance, on our part, for an adjustment of differences, met with new injuries and new insults?
40851Was not such an opinion of things, he asked, calculated to induce France to believe that she might make her own terms with us?
40851Was not this, he said, encouragement to put a period to that man''s existence?
40851Was not, then, this spot become the permanent seat of the Government of the Union?
40851Was official notice of it given to the Government of this country?
40851Was that opinion then correct, and now false, in the estimation of gentlemen?
40851Was the President of the United States the clerk of the court, to keep the records of it?
40851Was the argument not in point; or was it the declaration of his own opinion, as he went along, that was out of order?
40851Was the gentleman serious when he made this remark?
40851Was the gentleman, sir, acquainted with the fact when he made this statement?
40851Was the intention of the committee to have reference to the taking of free negroes and selling them as slaves, or the taking slaves to make them free?
40851Was the memory of that great man to be perpetuated by a heap of large inanimate objects?
40851Was then, he asked, a question of war a card of politeness?
40851Was there any reason since to alter our opinion?
40851Was there any thing in these men, he asked, that should prevent every kind of assistance being bestowed on them?
40851Was there not cause for anxiety, when a nation, contending for the right of self- government, was thus attacked?
40851Was there nothing, Mr. R. asked, to admonish us to take a measure of this kind?
40851Was there nothing, he asked, which called for a declaration of the kind proposed?
40851Was this decent or indecent?
40851Was this defensive?
40851Was this indecent in them?
40851Was this indecent?
40851Was this, he asked, the state of society?
40851We are asked by the gentleman from Virginia if the people want judges to protect them?
40851We are asked, why relinquish these balances before we are solicited by the States?
40851We are averse to take up the motion of the gentleman from Connecticut, and wherefore?
40851We asked if cards of hospitality were in the mean time necessary?
40851We asked what had led to our present conversation?
40851We have been asked, if we are afraid of having an army of judges?
40851We may tell him of his wisdom and his firmness, but what of all that unless we connect it with his Administration?
40851Were his nerves unstrung?
40851Were not gentlemen any longer to express their difference of opinion?
40851Were not the Detroit, and several other forts within our territory, held ten or a dozen years by Great Britain, in direct violation of a treaty?
40851Were not the different departments, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, assembled, according to the constitution, in this District?
40851Were there none of these judges ready to plunge their swords in the American heart?
40851Were there not great doubts existing throughout the United States?
40851Were they asleep on their post?
40851Were they not, then, to be called upon for money to man the frigates?
40851Were they so at present?
40851Were they then to act as if the law had been repealed?
40851Were they to go to war to avenge this partition?
40851Were troops ever raised in a different manner?
40851Were we to give up our commerce?
40851Were we to suppose that the President had already taken measures to_ revenge_ the injuries of the United States?
40851What advantage, he asked, was derived to this country from giving aliens eligibility to office?
40851What an affecting spectacle had we the other day of sixty of these unfortunate men returning from Algerine slavery?
40851What an influence can she command over our commerce?
40851What are the reasons urged by the gentlemen to induce a different proceeding, an immediate appeal to arms?
40851What are their duties?
40851What are they given for?
40851What are we to understand by this remark of the gentleman?
40851What are we to understand by this right, given by God and nature?
40851What avail our toasts-- our boasted recollections of him, and regret at his fate-- if we take not every opportunity to alleviate that distress?
40851What but this compact-- what but this specific part of it, can save us from ruin?
40851What circle would gentlemen fix the committee in to amend this Address, if they are not to give scope to these sentiments?
40851What connection had we with the French Government?
40851What could be more easy?
40851What could have been the reason why Congress was to assume this exclusive legislation?
40851What did the gentleman mean by avoiding the general principle?
40851What disguise?
40851What do gentlemen understand by"the freedom of speech and of the press?"
40851What do the gentlemen tell us?
40851What do we know respecting the cession?
40851What does all this mean, sir?
40851What does the constitution say?
40851What does the resolution call for?
40851What effect could a discussion have, but to show the world that there were_ parties_ in the House, and to raise a rancorous disposition?
40851What fact?
40851What had the President to do with the proceedings of that court?
40851What had the States to dread?
40851What has been our progress since the year 1763, in settling our Western country?
40851What has the fact been?
40851What have we to fear, suppose we interfere with that sensibility?
40851What is his character as a lawyer?
40851What is his offer to our Government?
40851What is it that has drained the wealth of Europe itself into the coffers of two or three of its principal commercial powers, but a marine?
40851What is it, that has drawn to Europe the superfluous riches of the three other quarters of the globe, but a marine?
40851What is its nature?
40851What is its purport?
40851What is liberty of conscience?
40851What is that crime?
40851What is the abstract question?
40851What is the ancient system?
40851What is the consequence of one sovereign transferring all jurisdiction to another sovereign?
40851What is the consequence?
40851What is the fact?
40851What is the implication of this doctrine?
40851What is the inevitable deduction to be drawn from this fact?
40851What is the inference?
40851What is the internal and external state of this country?
40851What is the object of the gentleman from Delaware?
40851What is the practice?
40851What is the present system?
40851What is the probable result?
40851What is the situation of the powers that remain?
40851What is the state of things?
40851What is the true and undisguised state of facts?
40851What is there here that implicates the character of Spain?
40851What is there then exhibited from the earliest period of our history?
40851What is this encouragement?
40851What is this population?
40851What manifestation was there of the public will relative to the late election of a President of the United States?
40851What may we then expect?
40851What might be the consequence?
40851What more does the gentleman wish?
40851What more, then, can you do, than decide the principle which shall be applied to them?
40851What objections could there be to this?
40851What ought the government to have done?
40851What power does a court possess to seize any individual and determine that he shall be adjudged by a foreign tribunal?
40851What provision have they made to fulfil that intention?
40851What right had they to exclusive seats?
40851What saving, then, does he mean to make by opposing the establishment of this office?
40851What should be thought of this, as taken in connection with the fate of the act and pendency of the Presidential election?
40851What temper accompanied the progress of the bill in the other House I know not, or, if I did know, would it be proper for me here to say?
40851What then was the difference of right between them?
40851What then was to be done with them?
40851What then, I ask, is the amount of this savage conduct?
40851What then?
40851What use can it be to take a step from which no benefit can be derived?
40851What was meant here?
40851What was more easy than for letters and instructions to be sent by post?
40851What was the General to do?
40851What was the consequence of this spirited conduct?
40851What was the effect of this provision in the constitution?
40851What was the engine now brought out against this freedom-- an engine possessed of all the powers necessary to ensure its success?
40851What was the fact at Philadelphia?
40851What was the fact?
40851What was the language of the amendment?
40851What was the language of the present appropriation?
40851What was the object of the bill?
40851What was the objection to this mode of proceeding?
40851What was then the conduct of the French Government?
40851What was to be done?
40851What was to be the course of their proceeding?
40851What were the arguments in favor of the warm tone?
40851What were the committee to do?
40851What were the consequences of our late negotiation?
40851What were the embarrassments likely to arise therein?
40851What were the people of the United States, and abroad, to think of this?
40851What were they about to ask?
40851What were we to substitute as complimentary to him in its place?
40851What will be the effect if we have it told at our wharves that we object to man them, because we have peace with Algiers?
40851What will be the effect of the desired repeal?
40851What will be the effect on the Southern States?
40851What will be the good of this?
40851What will hinder them from arriving in the Floridas, and what can guard the approach from thence to our Southern frontier?
40851What will you say to this?
40851What would be the effect of this law on the inhabitants of the Territory?
40851What would be the language, what would be the feelings of gentlemen in this House, were such an indignity offered on the Atlantic coast?
40851What would become, in such a state of things, of the national debt, and all the banks in the United States?
40851What would gentlemen have had the Government to do?
40851What would they say if the Chesapeake, the Delaware, or the Bay of New York were shut up, and all egress prohibited by a foreign power?
40851What, Mr. S. asked, would be the consequence of refusing this appropriation?
40851What, asked Mr. P., was the ground taken at the last session, and acted upon at this?
40851What, he asked, could be obtained by a vote on this subject?
40851What, he asked, is the situation of the West Indies?
40851What, he asked, was intended to be done with these armed vessels?
40851What, he asked, was the letter which the gentleman read from his book?
40851What, he asked, were to be the instructions given to the commanders of these vessels?
40851What, he asked, would the world think of such a versatility of conduct?
40851What, indeed, could such committee report?
40851What, said Mr. B., is this present?
40851What, said Mr. C., is the nature of the injuries which we have received from France?
40851What, said Mr. G., are the inconveniences which would arise from a measure of this kind?
40851What, said Mr. G., would be the degree of proof necessary to carry into effect this law?
40851What, said Mr. R., would be the conduct of France, if in our situation?
40851What, said Mr. S., is to be feared from the residence of aliens amongst us?
40851What, said he, have they said to our Minister-- or rather to the person who was formerly our Minister, but who then had no power?
40851What, said he, is most prudent to do?
40851What, said he, is our external situation?
40851What, said he, is the nature of the crime now proposed to be punished by the expulsion of the member from Vermont?
40851What, said he, is the situation of the North- western Territory at this time?
40851What, said he, is the situation of those countries which have gone into the establishment of large navies?
40851What, said he, is to prevent Victor Hugues sending over two or three frigates?
40851What, sir, has been done?
40851What, sir, was the policy of America, from the commencement of the Revolution?
40851What, then, Mr. Chairman, is the instruction which we may draw from this example?
40851What, then, is substantially the nature of this appellate jurisdiction?
40851What, then, is the nature of the amendment?
40851What, then, is the rational, the honest, the constitutional idea of freedom of language or of conduct?
40851What, then, is their aim?
40851What, then, said Mr. D., are our hopes relative to France?
40851When did the right of the President to recommend modifications of the Judiciary system cease?
40851When gentlemen ask, What is the question?
40851When it goes up to the Senate, may they not say they will not vote to finish, except it be to man them?
40851When that very power from which we had detached ourselves, refused to carry her treaty into execution, did we then go to war?
40851When the Indians were upon them, what could the Governor do?
40851When the subject is sent to the committee with that instruction, can it be conceived that committee is forced to report a bill?
40851When the term approached, the inquiry was, what judge are we to have?
40851When was this jurisdiction to commence but at the period when the General Government should occupy it?
40851When we reflect on a Treaty entered into on this principle with Great Britain, should France complain?
40851When, too, the opinions of other gentlemen on fundamental points coincided with your own?
40851When?
40851Whence did he collect this information?
40851Whence is it that the United States may abrogate the treaties with France?
40851Whence now this change of spirit?
40851Whence, then, the necessity of such appointment?
40851Whenever we supposed the constitution violated, did we talk of civil war?
40851Where could they be carried?
40851Where is Italy, Switzerland, Flanders, and all Germany west of the Rhine?
40851Where is the liberty of the press, which is secured to the citizens of the Union against Federal usurpation?
40851Where is the man, exclaimed he, who will not defend his country and his fellow- citizens against such a decree?
40851Where is the nation that will respect another that is passive under such humiliating degradation and disgrace?
40851Where is the nation, ancient or modern, that has borne such treatment without resentment of resistance?
40851Where was Hercules, that he did not crush this den of robbers that broke into the sanctuary of the constitution?
40851Where was the gentleman from New York, who has, on this debate, made such a noble stand in favor of a violated constitution?
40851Where was the_ Ajax Telamon_ of his party, or, to use his own more correct expression, the_ faction_ to which he belonged?
40851Where was their security if the acts of these Representatives of the people could be to- morrow revoked by a power deriving authority from elsewhere?
40851Where were these guardians of the constitution-- these vigilant sentinels of our rights and liberties, when this law passed?
40851Where will you find men of nerve that will risk certain ruin?
40851Where, he asked, is the difference between depending upon the French or British nation?
40851Where, said he, are your sailors?
40851Wherein have we differed from the compact made with France by our treaty made with that country?
40851Whether he is in any way connected with the British Government, or not?
40851Whether his ideas go to independence or not?
40851Whether it is consistent with the nature of our Government, that a single branch, without check or control, should become judges in their own case?
40851Whether so much as provides that the second article shall be expunged, shall stand?
40851Whether so much as provides that the third article be expunged, shall stand?
40851Whether that part shall stand which provides a limitation of time to its duration?
40851Whether that part shall stand which restrains it from operating against former treaties?
40851Whether the abilities of Government would be competent to meet all possible claims of this nature?
40851Whether the constitution had not delegated the power of making treaties to other branches of the Government?
40851Whether they would suffer themselves to come under the power of the French nation, or repel force by force?
40851Which situation is it most for the interest of the United States that they should be in?
40851Who are its enemies?
40851Who are to decide between the constitution and the acts of Congress?
40851Who are to judge?
40851Who are to pronounce on the laws?
40851Who can prevent that?
40851Who can say that Mr. Gerry has power to treat alone, or that the French Government is willing to treat with him on fair and honorable terms?
40851Who can show me in what other manner the same good can be effected by so small a sum?
40851Who gave them the power to vest in any other authority than in Congress the right of declaring war?
40851Who is so ignorant as not to know, that the imposition of a tax would create a hundred enemies for one friend?
40851Who is to judge of the necessity or utility of these services?
40851Who knows but the power in whose custody he is may expect America to interest herself in his favor?
40851Who said this?
40851Who shall fix the boundaries of these new empires, when the fatal separation shall take place?
40851Who was it, that, in England, destroyed the Representative Government, and concentrated all its powers in his own hands?
40851Who will confide in, who will be bound by their decrees?
40851Who will declare whether they be unconstitutional?
40851Who will venture on it; because, where will you draw the line?
40851Who would withhold a few dollars from his purse to facilitate it?
40851Who, said he, is the man who has this proof?
40851Who, sir, I would ask the gentleman, are my coadjutors?
40851Who, sir, proved fatal to the liberties of Rome?
40851Who, then, are, in reality, the advocates of a limited authority, and who are the champions of a dangerous and uncontrollable power?
40851Why are we told of the inconsistency of our means?
40851Why can not they obtain this power which is asked of us of the State where it is wanted?
40851Why combine it with considerations connected with negotiation?
40851Why did they commit spoliations upon our commerce long before the British Treaty was ever dreamt of?
40851Why do gentlemen tell the House of the danger of irritating France?
40851Why do not gentlemen give away that which they have some authority or right to bestow?
40851Why do not these"express acts of Parliament"change the law as to others than"British subjects?"
40851Why do we hear of such things on this floor?
40851Why do we want information, but that we may have a more clear view of the general subject?
40851Why does the PRESIDENT communicate these things to us, if we are not allowed to express any sentiments about them?
40851Why give one a privilege more than another?
40851Why has he first learnt this offensive act from those who suffer by it?
40851Why has this document been so sedulously kept from the public eye?
40851Why insinuate that the Government had been wrong?
40851Why is he thus held up to contempt and derision?
40851Why is it now deemed requisite to abrogate the treaties by which this country has been connected with France?
40851Why is it refused to the Federal Constitution?
40851Why is the gentleman from Pennsylvania so very anxious on the subject?
40851Why is this practice, hitherto unopposed, now to be broken in upon?
40851Why lock him up there?
40851Why not decide its other proportions?
40851Why not furnish the American people at once with the real and the whole project of himself and his friends?
40851Why not seize then what is so essential to us as a nation?
40851Why not then restore the people to their former condition?
40851Why object then, in a case where there was a difference of opinion, to refer the decision to an impartial tribunal?
40851Why pass acts fitted for a state of war, without declaring that that is the state of the country?
40851Why postpone it?
40851Why prevent his being able to support his family?
40851Why send him to jail?
40851Why should a heavy fine and imprisonment be made the penalty for carrying on a trade so advantageous?
40851Why should it not be sent there, and a profitable return be made?
40851Why should the House trouble itself to sanction any particular work?
40851Why should the individual members of either branch, or either branch itself, have more privileges than him?
40851Why silent on the Legislature?
40851Why such declamation?
40851Why take it to a select committee?
40851Why then divide it into little detached parts?
40851Why then do gentlemen, who on those occasions approved of these measures, now despair of negotiation?
40851Why then go into a committee?
40851Why then put off the decision of a claim in his opinion just, and to which the House ought not to shut their ears?
40851Why this provision?
40851Why was that State to be selected out from all others?
40851Why was the boundary of the United States always fixed at 31?
40851Why were they silent till within a few weeks before the election of our President?
40851Why, asked Mr. N., was this law originally passed?
40851Why, he asked, did foreigners seek a residence in this country?
40851Why, is there any crime in printing a minute of our transactions?
40851Why, said he, shall we, who are a Confederacy of the Democratic Republicans, everlastingly keep our eyes upon the pageantry of Eastern Courts?
40851Why, then, ask for it?
40851Why, then, do gentlemen complain?
40851Why, then, endeavor to stir up the feelings of the public against it by alleging it to be just cause of complaint?
40851Why, then, mask his proposition?
40851Why, then, refer this resolution calling for information to a committee?
40851Why, then, rise for the purpose of referring it to a secret committee?
40851Why, then, shall we proceed to measures which must inevitably involve the country in war?
40851Why, then, should we hazard the being involved in European broils?
40851Why?
40851Why?
40851Why?
40851Will any gentleman say it is for our personal convenience that the seat of Government is now at this place?
40851Will any man undertake to say, that the privilege of the Parliament of Great Britain ought to be that of the Congress of this country?
40851Will any one say that a man who does not keep the laws ought to be allowed to make them?
40851Will gentlemen look back to the histories of other countries, and then tell us the people here have nothing to apprehend from themselves?
40851Will gentlemen say it is to be found in the force of this wise precedent?
40851Will gentlemen say that the same liberty of writing and speaking did not exist then that now exists?
40851Will gentlemen say they will pay all demands before they know any thing of their nature or amount?
40851Will gentlemen sit here and shut their eyes to the state and condition of their country?
40851Will he deny that this was a measure to which we had been urged for years by our adversaries, because they foresaw in it the ruin of Federal power?
40851Will he say that premises and conclusions are the same thing?
40851Will it be contended that such great trusts ought to be reposed in feeble or incapable hands?
40851Will it be expected, that I should quote Sidney, De Lolme, Montesquieu, and a host of elementary writers, to prove this assertion?
40851Will it be made a question whether it is proper to ask for information?
40851Will it be said that there is a security to the freedom of mankind from the moderation with which this enormous power is to be exercised?
40851Will it be said, that although you can not remove the judge from office, yet you can remove his office from him?
40851Will it not be a declaration to the remaining judges that they hold their offices subject to your will and pleasure?
40851Will it not manifest more magnanimity, more rationality, to abide by it until we try it; instead of taking up a pen and dashing it out of existence?
40851Will the adoption of these resolutions give us a single ship or gun?
40851Will the gentleman say, that the direct tax was laid in order to enlarge the bounds of patronage?
40851Will the gentlemen say that these judges are ambassadors, other public ministers or consuls, or that they are a state?
40851Will the judges rudely declare that you have violated the constitution, unmindful of your duty, and regardless of your oath?
40851Will the present repeal of the internal taxes interfere with the doing substantial justice to our merchants?
40851Will the same navy be more efficacious in our case, than in the case of Holland, or Spain, or Portugal?
40851Will these resolutions, then, said he, if adopted, tend to this point?
40851Will they not say the President has done his duty in stating the fact?
40851Will they remedy the evil by excluding the stenographers from places within the bar?
40851Will this Government not be chargeable with having assisted in detaching such a colony from its Government?
40851Will this satisfy the just expectation of our country?
40851Will we not be classed with the robbers and destroyers of mankind?
40851Will you call the militia from the North to assist their Southern brethren?
40851Will you give up commerce, or build a Navy to protect it?
40851Will you not, then, be obliged to make a general provision that all claims, so circumstanced, shall be allowed?
40851Will you remember, sir, that they held the power of life and death, without appeal?
40851Will you secure their seasonable aid, bring them early to the fields they are ordered to defend?
40851Will you then confine the President, in relation to these powers, to a Peace Establishment?
40851Will, then, Mr. Chairman, any gentleman hesitate a moment to pronounce the rule of apportionment which was adopted unjust, unequal, and erroneous?
40851With all the deference to their talents, is not Congress as capable of forming a correct opinion as they are?
40851With respect to the motion, Mr. L. asked, to whom was application to be made?
40851With respect to the price of salt at Fort Pitt, as a gentleman had observed, it might be high, but was this occasioned by a duty?
40851With that meek and peaceful spirit now so strongly recommended, we submitted to this insult, and what followed?
40851With this knowledge, so plainly derivable from the policy pursued by the Legislature, what was the Secretary of the Navy to do?
40851Without meeting?
40851Wonderful indeed is this sudden disposition to confidence?
40851Would any gentleman say that it was policy not to legislate about 700,000 enemies in the very body of the United States?
40851Would any man, said Mr. H., who shall read this passage, say that the system of these gentlemen is a peace system?
40851Would any person deny that, through the agency of the Executive, constitutionally exercised, the injury was redressed?
40851Would calmness be consistent if entering wedges were prepared to ruin the property of whole estates?
40851Would conduct like this comport with the gentleman''s ideas of national honor, about which we have heard so much in the course of this debate?
40851Would gentlemen feel calm if measures were taken to destroy most of their property?
40851Would gentlemen say that the Executive ought to appoint persons to office who professed an opinion contrary to its own?
40851Would he have had the people of the United States relinquish without a struggle those liberties which had cost so much blood and treasure?
40851Would he march at the head of the_ posse comitatus_?
40851Would he place the memory of WASHINGTON on a footing with that of a rich man''s mistress?
40851Would it be more respectful that an answer should be sent by this House, which, for want of time, had not been sufficiently considered?
40851Would it have been a proper return for the unanimity with which your committee was chosen?
40851Would it have tended to conciliate?
40851Would it not be absurd still to say, that the removed judge held his office during good behavior?
40851Would it not involve an inconsistency, that ought not certainly to be chargeable upon the framers of the constitution?
40851Would it not place the Territory in the situation of a conquered country?
40851Would not public opinion be as ready to sanction the one as the other of these detestable acts?
40851Would not such a procedure subject us to the just censure of the world, and to the strongest jealousy of those who have possessions near to us?
40851Would not the French say, if they were applied to for redress,"You knew these were pirates; why did you not defend yourselves against them?"
40851Would not the House have contravened the constitution, by taking from the President the power which by it is placed in him?
40851Would not the people of this country think it their duty to destroy a power which could not be trusted; and would not foreigners despise it?
40851Would not these two give to the legislature a majority?
40851Would not this be a most extraordinary doctrine?
40851Would not this be to acknowledge that there our regulation pinched her?
40851Would not this be to impair the tenure of the office which was abolished, or to which another officer might have been appointed by a new regulation?
40851Would such a procedure meet the approbation of even our own citizens, whose lives and fortunes would be risked in the conflict?
40851Would the civil jurisdiction of the town have repelled the bayonet?
40851Would the committee be willing that Savannah should be erased from the revenue?
40851Would the decree stop the importation of British goods?
40851Would the gentleman yet wish to leave the District without laws, and merely lest it should take away their suffrage?
40851Would the gentleman, then, inform the House what point he wished to ascertain, or in what he expected additional proof?
40851Would there be a power in Virginia and Maryland, if receded, to prevent a resumption?
40851Would they admit that he falsely made the claim?
40851Would they discard the property of that class of citizens who depended upon it for their support and their wealth?
40851Would they not laugh at you when you told them their term of office was out?
40851Would they not say, in the language of the gentleman from New York, though the law that creates us is temporary, we are in by the constitution?
40851Would they not say, we belong to inferior courts?
40851Would this be the way to keep the Government together, or to preserve harmony in the country?
40851Would you annihilate a system because some men under part of it had acted wrong?
40851Would you know the sentiment of England?
40851Would your national honor be free from imputation by a conduct of such inconsistency and duplicity?
40851Yes, he would answer; else how could an appropriation in general terms have been made for the intercourse with foreign nations?
40851Yes, sir, we wish for peace; but how is that blessing to be preserved?
40851Yet, what superior advantage have they in the Government generally?
40851You are to inquire how he became possessed of a certain bill which he published; what kind of an inquiry is this?
40851Your press might have been enchained till doomsday, your citizens incarcerated for life, and where is your remedy?
40851[ Mr. ALLEN exclaimed, who said it?]
40851[ Mr. HARPER asked if there was any question before the committee?]
40851[ Mr. OTIS asked who were to be the judges?]
40851[ Mr. RUTLEDGE asked whether this had been done?
40851and are not our resources increasing with our population?
40851and asking those whose duty it was to inquire, is there no sedition here?
40851and did he not see that that would be a check upon the abuse of it in either House, since it was a weapon which both could use?
40851and have we not done all we can conveniently do for the defence of our commerce?
40851and if the effect of his resolution should be to show that the stipulations are injurious to our rights, would he know how to act?
40851and in what cases they were to defend themselves?
40851and of course are we not prohibited from establishing one system in one place, and a different system in another?
40851and that however flagrant that abuse of power, it is remediless, and must be submitted to?
40851and whether, if they do say so, the fact ought not to be inquired into?
40851and will you punish every man who shall repeat, print, or publish what is made public on this floor?
40851and, if Congress had that cognizance before that time, have those amendments taken it away?
40851asked, could be placed in a nation which one day makes a treaty, and the next violates it?
40851but I do not think it is any evil; would he have these people turned out in the United States to ravage, murder, and commit every species of crime?
40851conquer France?
40851did the Government say it?
40851for money from the poor without law?
40851is it no crime to publish a bill while before this House?
40851is it possible that I have heard such a sentiment in this body?
40851on the duties which he now pays?
40851on what did this claim rest?
40851or a murder committed on board such a frigate, against the peace of any other than the British Government?
40851or in a court independent of any influence whatever?
40851or what connection had we with, any other, besides commercial?
40851or, Thirdly, whether they can be made by law?
40851said Mr. S., would it be to carry humility in his front to say,"I come to place you on the same footing with the most favored nation?"
40851said he, can it be supposed that three frigates would give us that ridiculous kind of spirit which would induce us at any rate to go to war?
40851to collect it; but what was twenty- five compared with three hundred per cent.?
40851was it not enough to submit to injury; shall we not only receive the stripes, but kiss the rod that inflicts them?
40851with restrictions, perhaps, to guard against the fraudulent usurpation of our flag?
40499If it should be the judgment of Congress that it would be most expedient--what can be more explicit than this language?
40499In this case, shall a secure port be stipulated, and the pecuniary and honorary considerations granted?
40499--The question, I apprehend, is whether we will take the petition up for a second reading, and not whether it shall be committed?
40499112; difficult to see where the danger lies, 112; what is meant by responsibility?
40499116; is five thousand dollars in proportion to the services of the Vice President?
40499197; can two parties exist in a well organized government to dispute about property and have no judge?
40499197; is not the want of consideration a good plea?
40499230; plans of the friends of emancipation, 231; negroes are inferior race, 231; slavery is no new thing, 231; does slavery weaken the Southern States?
40499231; is public opinion against slavery?
40499232; this squeamishness is very extraordinary, 232; consequences of emancipation, 233; if importation prohibited, will that species become extinct?
40499233; does slavery vitiate and debase the mind of the owner?
40499233; does toleration of slavery bring reproach on America?
40499233; will the abolition strengthen South Carolina?
40499234; was South Carolina wanting in patriotism?
40499318; peace concluded April, 1783, 318; what was the intention of the parties in this contract?
40499318; what does the law of nations say?
40499318; when did the war end?
40499324; is it expedient to do it?
4049959; what are the objects of Government-- revenue one of the first?
40499647; view of legislative and treaty- making powers, 648; how is the will of the people expressed in the constitution to be understood?
40499676; is it paramount to a law, and can it repeal law, although itself can not be acted upon by the legislative power?
4049989; the power of removal exists somewhere, and where?
40499A Treaty is a bargain between nations binding in good faith; and what makes a bargain?
40499A gentleman has asked, what is meant by responsibility?
40499A gentleman has said, that Parliament interfered, not to violate, but to perfect the contract: but what did Parliament do?
40499A sufficient force must be raised for their defence; and the only question now to be considered is, what that force shall be?
40499AMES.--I wish the committee may consider, with the attention the subject demands, whether the duties are too high or not?
40499AMES.--If we are to go to war, will it not be a prodigious saving of expense to have all matters ready beforehand?
40499After a silence of some minutes, Mr. LIVERMORE asked, what part of the report it was expected that gentlemen should speak to?
40499After all, however, should the unlimited powers he had mentioned( and such powers must always be unlimited) be wantonly abused, was there no remedy?
40499After having thus formed his opinion relative to the Treaty, his next inquiry was, is the Treaty constitutional?
40499After these preliminary observations, Mr. H. proceeded to inquire, not what ought to be, but what was the Constitution of the United States?
40499Again, what may be the result of the precedent relating to the session of Congress?
40499Also, gentlemen declared they would not recede from their former determinations; did they expect that the majority would recede?
40499And On the previous question,"Shall the said main question be now put?"
40499And although the excise may be somewhat unpopular, although money may still be wanted; what is the excise?
40499And are we( said Mr. S.) to stand up here, and tell the world that we dare not perform an act of benevolence?
40499And are we, meanwhile, to remain inactive and irresolute, and make no efforts to repel their intended attacks?
40499And between the Vice President and the Senate?
40499And can an act possibly meet the disapprobation of a single person which does not infringe his rights, and which puts money into his pocket?
40499And can not he infuse his dangerous and specious arguments and information into them as well in the closet, as by a public and official communication?
40499And can we be so unreasonable as to suppose that they would ever consent to a Treaty that had not such terms of reciprocity?
40499And demanded, if, by the purchase, they were divested of that quality?
40499And did the United States pass laws to punish the counterfeiting the notes of that bank?
40499And do not all those nations, as well as every other, come into our ports on the same terms with the British?
40499And do we, in the last case, say to these unfortunate sufferers, commence suits against those who have injured you?
40499And does not the constitution expressly declare that the House solely shall exercise the power of originating revenue bills?
40499And had all their professions been only a veil to hide their love of power?
40499And had the prosecution succeeded, would the Secretary have had an appeal to the public?
40499And have we not the volunteers, sir, in this country to protect our rights?
40499And here he would inquire if the Codorus Creek, which runs through Yorktown into the Susquehanna, was, or could be made navigable?
40499And how can you discriminate such claims from those rising from savage depredations on your frontier settlers?
40499And how would it be relished by them?
40499And if they are given up, how are we to form seamen to man our future navy?
40499And if war had been the consequence, how were we to have recovered the amount of the spoliations committed on the property of our merchants?
40499And if, of right, they can carry these into effect, will they regard the means, though they be expressly pointed out?
40499And if, under these circumstances, abused, would the injury be more tolerable?
40499And is it not a principle that taxation and representation ought to go hand and hand?
40499And is it not strange?
40499And is not the sum now proposed more than either the first or last holder, till within these few days, supposed would be paid him?
40499And is not the sum now proposed, more than either the first or last assignee ever contemplated, till within a few days past, would ever be paid him?
40499And is this indiscriminate charge, without the least respect to characters, a decent or a just return for a conduct like this?
40499And on the previous question,"Shall the main question be now put?"
40499And on the previous question,"Shall the said main question be now put?"
40499And on the question, Shall the main question be now put?
40499And on the question, shall the main question be now put?
40499And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?
40499And shall we now hesitate, and tamely suffer them to dictate to us?
40499And the question was then put, Shall this bill be rejected?
40499And then the main question being put, Do the House agree to the said third resolution, as reported by the Committee of the whole House?
40499And then the main question,"That the House do agree to the said resolution?"
40499And to guard herself against such measures, may we not expect she will lay her hand upon all our property on the ocean?
40499And were they not partial ministers of their own acknowledged principles?
40499And were they to judge for the whole Continent?
40499And what might not be the consequence of their awakening from their lethargy?
40499And what must be their astonishment when they hear that some people amongst us think that Great Britain has conferred no favor upon us by doing it?
40499And what was the slender basis on which the presumption was built?
40499And what, sir, would otherwise be the result?
40499And whether certain tracts of land should be reserved by Congress for certain purposes?
40499And whom, sir, do we mean to gratify?
40499And why depend on Portugal?
40499And why, let me ask, shall we go and fix upon the banks of a rapid river, when we can have a more healthful situation?
40499And will the enemy wait till they can be collected?
40499And would gentlemen say that the negotiation had not been attended with beneficial consequences to this country?
40499And would not this be a greater advantage to the United States than if they went up the rivers St. Lawrence or Mississippi, and paid no duty?
40499And, after he had employed an agent to make a contract, with full discretion, and he had in pursuance of his authority made it, was it not binding?
40499And, if we have, are we not to make use of it in judging of the expediency or inexpediency of the Treaty?
40499And, secondly, Were there 60,000 inhabitants in the Territory?
40499And, secondly, will such a construction warrant the establishment of the Bank?
40499Are Republicans irresponsible?
40499Are crimes more frequent in that country than in the other States?
40499Are crimes more frequently committed there?
40499Are despots alone to be reproached for unfeeling indifference to the tears and blood of their subjects?
40499Are gentlemen afraid to leave them to their own unbiased judgment?
40499Are gentlemen apprehensive we shall be led by this officer to adopt plans we should otherwise reject?
40499Are not the annual revenues sufficient?
40499Are not their capitals for trade larger than ours?
40499Are our debts ascertained?
40499Are taxes to be paid exclusively by the rich?
40499Are the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate Congress?
40499Are the eastern members to dictate in this business, and fix the seat of Government of the United States?
40499Are the posts to remain for ever in the possession of Great Britain?
40499Are the services of the Senate of more importance than those of the Representatives?
40499Are the truths in it applicable to the great object we are about to decide?
40499Are the very clods where we tread entitled to this ardent preference because they are greener?
40499Are there more executions?
40499Are these the men, asked Mr. C., who ought to have all this mass of Congressional odium cast upon them?
40499Are they amenable to the people for their conduct?
40499Are they not a polished people, sensible of the rights of mankind, and actuated by proper sentiments of humanity?
40499Are they not continuing to do so, and is it not in contemplation to sell large quantities of lands in that country, that have never been purchased?
40499Are they the men to swallow their resentments, who so lately were choking with them?
40499Are they the only people whose feelings are to be consulted on this occasion?
40499Are they the only persons who possess religion and morality?
40499Are they to look into another bill for that purpose?
40499Are they, for the stealing of a horse, or some such thing, to cross the line in armed bodies, and act just as they please?
40499Are we afraid that the President and Senate are not sufficiently informed to know their respective duties?
40499Are we never to stand upon a certain and solid foundation?
40499Are we not now sitting, in our sober discretion, a General Government, without the semblance of restraint?
40499Are we not so deeply in debt as to give us reason to believe that it will require many years to emancipate ourselves?
40499Are we not the sole judges; have we not a right to determine for ourselves?
40499Are we sure that it will come back into our possession again?
40499Are we to apply to foreign banks or individuals?
40499Are we to apply to the banks already established in the States for loans?
40499Are we to depend, then, on taxes for commanding money in cases of urgent necessity?
40499Are we to say, we will not be bound by your transfer, we will not treat with your representative, but insist upon a resettlement with you alone?
40499Are we to send a special committee to inform them?
40499Are we to take the circuitous route of impeachment?
40499Are you prepared to do so just now?
40499Are you ready to answer?
40499Are you ready to speak in your defence?
40499As to the flag, how can it require an answer from the Senate?
40499As to the third point, should not his estate be indemnified?
40499BOUDINOT.--The question seems to turn merely on this point, whether the Vice President shall receive a per diem allowance, or an annual salary?
40499Be it so-- what follows?
40499Besides, where will this business of censorship end?
40499But I ask gentlemen, whether Great Britain ever laid such a high duty in the first instance, as we are about to impose?
40499But I would ask if there is any power under heaven which could not be exercised within the extensive limits of this preamble?
40499But a distrust of the States is shown in every movement of Congress-- will not this implant distrust also in the States?
40499But admitting that they would not fight, to what would the argument lead?
40499But am I reduced to the necessity of proving this point?
40499But are not gentlemen who come from the most distant parts of the Union, compelled to relinquish every thing to attend here?
40499But are, he asked, gentlemen serious in these observations?
40499But can public necessity be urged in the present case to justify this kind of political robbery?
40499But did all this put an end to the war?
40499But did they want to bring forward an impeachment?
40499But do gentlemen consider the consequences of throwing all internal defence and distant expeditions upon the militia?
40499But from which of these measures is danger to be apprehended?
40499But gentlemen say,"Have we not as much power as the House of Commons in Great Britain?"
40499But he asked, if such would not be a vain attempt?
40499But he would ask those gentlemen, by whom the Government was to be dissolved?
40499But how do gentlemen handle this question?
40499But how does Congress get this power?
40499But how does it interpose and compel?
40499But how is it they are more concerned in this business than others?
40499But how will you prevent them?
40499But if it be partial or oppressive, are there not many instances in which we have laid taxes of this nature?
40499But if it was politic to lay an impost on cordage, would it not be the same with regard to hemp?
40499But if this were doubtful, where should they look for information?
40499But if you have two hands, both in the fire at once, will you pull out one before the other?
40499But is Congress going to legislate by strength of arm?
40499But is not the Secretary of the Treasury subject to blame?
40499But is there occasion for amendments to the Treaty- making power?
40499But is this the case of the domestic creditor of the United States?
40499But it is asked, if this Treaty be so unfavorable to commerce, why are the merchants so much in favor of it?
40499But it may be demanded, how are the frontiers to be protected, if the army was disbanded?
40499But it might be objected that a power so enormous, and comprehending such essential interests, might be abused, and thence asked, where is the remedy?
40499But let me ask, will not this as effectually destroy some parts, as if the correction had been made by way of incorporation?
40499But on what are a committee to confer?
40499But suppose they decline doing what you require, what is next to be done?
40499But supposing it to be done away, how do the constitutions of the different States stand on this head?
40499But the question is, what is that will, as expressed in the constitution?
40499But was South Carolina, at the commencement of the war, with all her slaves, backward in her resistance to Great Britain?
40499But was there no justice also due to the people of the United States?
40499But was this done by striking out and inserting other words in the great charter?
40499But were there no other ways of cancelling a Treaty?
40499But what are their immediate representatives to do, in case the bill be made perpetual?
40499But what did he do?
40499But what did the gentlemen who have delivered their sentiments say?
40499But what does this signify?
40499But what effect do these men suppose will arise from their exertions?
40499But what funds are to defray the increased expense of maintaining such a force as is now contemplated?
40499But what has been the practice?
40499But what has been the result of the system which has been pursued ever since?
40499But what has the House to do with this; or why should it become the censor and promulgator of the speeches of its own members?
40499But what have been the fruits of it?
40499But what have the citizens of the other States to do with our slaves?
40499But what is a law?
40499But what is the necessity of having a numerous representation?
40499But what is the object of the motion?
40499But what is the objection?
40499But what is this general welfare?
40499But what is this liberty which some appear to be so fond of?
40499But what is to prevent the greatest imposition in this business?
40499But what more can we do than pass a law for the purpose?
40499But what occasion is there for adopting such a resolution?
40499But what was the case?
40499But what would become of the acts of Congress?
40499But what, in this state of things, would restrain their piratical cruisers in the West Indies?
40499But where is the necessity of raising the impost to this degree?
40499But where was the government that had funded its debts under the circumstances of the American debt?
40499But who started this question?
40499But why did the creditors part with their acknowledgment of the debt?
40499But why do these men set themselves up in such a particular manner against slavery?
40499But why is this degree of caution necessary?
40499But why is this desirable?
40499But why should we lose time to examine the theory when it is in our power to resort to experience?
40499But why will gentlemen contend for incorporating amendments into the constitution?
40499But why, Mr. Chairman, should we hasten on this business of funding?
40499But would gentlemen infer from hence, that no alteration ought to take place if the manufactures were well established?
40499But, asked he, are precedents in war to justify violations of private and State rights in a time of peace?
40499But, if the sum voted was too small, what would be the consequence?
40499But, in taking the principle of territory, are the House to calculate on the uninhabited wilderness?
40499But, instead of this, what is proposed?
40499But, let me ask, if the Treaty should not be carried into effect, will that relieve that deserving class of our citizens?
40499But, said Mr. W., let us waive this subject, and inquire if negotiation had failed, whether war would not have been the consequence?
40499But, say those who hide the absurdity under the cover of ambiguous phrases, have we no discretion?
40499But, sir, is the whole morality of the United States confined to the Quakers?
40499But, sir, what is the situation of the people who hold these bills?
40499By applying proper rules of interpretation?
40499By emissions of bills of credit?
40499By loans at home?
40499By taxes?
40499By what magic can it be made to appear it will be more proper at the end of ten years?
40499By what provision of the constitution is the Treaty- making power, agreeably to the construction of the gentlemen, limited?
40499By whom, then, he would ask again, was the Government to be dissolved?
40499Can a market be obtained without the merchant?
40499Can any body of men to be raised in this country tread down the substantial yeomanry?
40499Can any of the Secretary''s plans be called bills?
40499Can any person, who has read our constitution, believe that it is in our power to pass a law without limitation?
40499Can any reason be assigned for making this distinction?
40499Can any solid argument against the resolution on the table arise from a conduct of this kind?
40499Can any thing show more friendly to the Union than adopting the constitution, and sending us here to administer it?
40499Can any thing tend more to make men think themselves mean, or degrade to a lower point their estimation of virtue and their standard of action?
40499Can gentlemen state more serious apprehensions in the former than the latter case?
40499Can it be supposed it would be necessary, said he, to give any member of this House double pay to accept of the office?
40499Can it be supposed that a part will be more desirous of promoting the good of the whole than the whole will of the part?
40499Can it be supposed that such a character as this is influenced by such a motive?
40499Can it be supposed that the name of Senators will render those members superior to their fellow- citizens?
40499Can not his friends introduce it as their own, by making and seconding a motion for that purpose?
40499Can the House listen seriously to such a proposition?
40499Can the advocates of the amendment even affect apprehensions that there is any intention to introduce a foreign nobility as a privileged order?
40499Can the human mind retain, with any great degree of decision, objects so extensive and multifarious upon a mere oral communication?
40499Can there be any foundation for alarm, when Congress expressly declare, that they have no power of interference prior to the year 1808?
40499Can they expect the planters to come in a body, and take off their goods upon their arrival?
40499Can things certain be balanced by things uncertain?
40499Can this Government, said he, protect its officers from the resentment of any one State in the Union?
40499Can this be the inference of common sense?
40499Can this possibly be a true construction of the Treaty- making power?
40499Can this, then, he would ask, be a bill proper to perpetuate, or fit for the restoration of the credit of the United States?
40499Can two parties exist in a well organized Government to dispute about property, and have no judge?
40499Can we desire any thing more ardently than a termination of the Indian war?
40499Can we find that she ever imposed a duty of six cents per gallon on molasses?
40499Can we retribute the sufferings which have been caused by the depreciation of our currency?
40499Can you then recover the money back again?
40499Certainly gentlemen would not pretend to bestow a privilege upon a man which he is incapable of using?
40499Congress having no money to give them, offered something; what?
40499Constituents made no scruple to tell Representatives of their faults, and he saw no reason why Representatives might not tell constituents of theirs?
40499Could any man tell?
40499Could any possible wrong be done to those who hold the domestic debt, by estimating it at its current value?
40499Could he look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent?
40499Could it be pretended there was a shadow of authority given to the House of Representatives?
40499Could the House, in this case, exercise its discretion, whether or no a Convention should be called?
40499Could this be the fair construction of our so much boasted constitution?
40499Could we say, in such a case, that the tax had been uniform?
40499Did France before this war give us free trade to her colonies?
40499Did Holland, before the present war, open to us all her rich possessions in the East Indies?
40499Did any gentleman think there was sufficient evil in the late Treaty with Great Britain to authorize them in refusing to carry it into effect?
40499Did any member wish at this period to attempt this inquiry?
40499Did gentlemen wish to re- establish a temporary Territorial Government there?
40499Did he imagine that, as it is, they are not kept in a perpetual state of alarm, of exertion, and of danger?
40499Did it authorize a perpetual tax, irrepealable by the whole Legislature, without a breach of faith, according to received doctrine?
40499Did it authorize a plan for supplying former deficiencies, which it is admitted do not exist?
40499Did it authorize an entire provision for the public debt, past, present, and to come?
40499Did it bear a proportion to his services, or was it in proportion to what the members of the Senate and this House were to be allowed?
40499Did it condemn the doctrine of the majority?
40499Did it encourage the hopes of those who wished the establishment of Government upon the principle of equal rights?
40499Did it lead to a discovery of truth?
40499Did it not rivet the chains upon the people of England?
40499Did it render the people of Ireland more respectable in the eyes of the people of the United States?
40499Did not New York dispose of lands within her chartered limits, and from the sales become wealthy, as she has large sums in the funds?
40499Did not duty require a provision for the defence and safety of the United States by_ internal_ resources?
40499Did not this mean something more than the bare discharge of their expenses?
40499Did the General enter into these engagements out of personal regard to individuals, without a view to the public interest?
40499Did the House imagine that their censure, like the wand of a magician, would lay a spell on these people?
40499Did the Secretary apply the money borrowed in Europe agreeably to the legal appropriations and the instructions of the PRESIDENT?
40499Did the Secretary of the Treasury apply the money to other uses than the law directed?
40499Did the soldier accept of this offer?
40499Did these acts originate with the Executive?
40499Did they consider this House as the only branch from which any danger was to be apprehended?
40499Did they contribute to strengthen the country against invasion by staying at home and joining the invader as soon as he was successful?
40499Did they mean to rob the Almighty of what they call his prerogative?
40499Did they mean, that the first event which would put an end to their own authority should be the last act of Government?
40499Did they not refuse to correspond with any society that aided, or in any manner abetted, the insurrection?
40499Did they not, in the most pointed manner, discountenance any such proceeding?
40499Did they suspect the Legislature of doing wrong?
40499Did they turn themselves to industry and useful pursuits?
40499Did they, by their arms or contributions, establish our independence?
40499Did this act of submission render them more respectable in the eyes of the people of England?
40499Did this passage show that the PRESIDENT wanted them to intermeddle?
40499Did we go to the Emperor of Morocco, or to the Dey of Algiers, and challenge a passage for our ships up the Mediterranean?
40499Did we intend to rival the military establishments in Europe?
40499Did we judiciously examine whether the spirit of the law accords with the habits and manners of the people?
40499Do gentlemen conceive that on any occasion instructions would be so general as to proceed from all our constituents?
40499Do gentlemen contemplate to what issue these principles would lead?
40499Do gentlemen foresee the extent of these words?
40499Do gentlemen imagine that State will join the Union?
40499Do gentlemen mean that he shall give it piecemeal, by way of question and answer?
40499Do gentlemen suppose our laws, like those of the Medes and Persians, unchangeable?
40499Do gentlemen, said he, consider the importance of the power they give the officer by the clause?
40499Do the United States avenge these murders?
40499Do these gentlemen require any thing more respecting the powers of Congress, than a description of the ends of government?
40499Do these men expect a general emancipation of slaves by law?
40499Do they believe the capitals of those banks adequate to the exigencies of the nation?
40499Do they demand back the property carried off?
40499Do they leave their State and relinquish their occupations?
40499Do they mean to purchase their freedom?
40499Do they not admit that He is the source of all good, and can they refuse to acknowledge it?
40499Do they not observe that the fate of the Government is deeply involved in the decision?
40499Do they understand the rights of mankind, and the disposition of Providence, better than others?
40499Do we charge bribery or corruption?
40499Do we ever originate any money bill?
40499Do we impeach the Executive?
40499Do you know one Robert Randall?
40499Do you mean to pay the principal and interest now due?
40499Do you think we should pay the tax?
40499Does Portugal open the Brazils?
40499Does Spain open her rich islands in the East and West Indies, and her immense possessions in South America?
40499Does any gentleman expect, while we have a public debt, to prevent speculation in our funds?
40499Does any gentleman imagine that an officer is entitled to his office as to an estate?
40499Does experience sanction such an opinion?
40499Does he infer that the people can, in detached bodies, contravene an act established by the whole people?
40499Does he mean that it shall lie dormant and never be exercised?
40499Does it consist in the exaltation of one man, and the humiliation of the rest?
40499Does it contain any thing which is not true?
40499Does not that new order prohibit, as much as ever, American vessels from carrying provisions to the West India Islands?
40499Does not the British Government wish to deprive us of this branch also?
40499Does she not receive every thing which she could have demanded in relation to that Treaty?
40499Does she, in the Treaty lately made, open even Florida, as Great Britain has Canada?
40499Does the House believe this?
40499Does the dignity of a nation consist in the distance between the first magistrate and his citizens?
40499Does the gentleman conceive that such only are delegated as are expressed?
40499Does the lawyer neglect his client?
40499Does the merchant forego his commerce, or the farmer his agriculture?
40499Does this look like a democracy, when one of the first acts of the two branches of the Legislature is to confer titles?
40499Does this mean a part of the people in a township or district, or does it mean the representatives in the State Legislatures?
40499First, what article shall be the subject of a particular tax, and what shall remain in the common mass liable to an impost_ ad valorem_?
40499For what is the tendency of this counterfeit alarm?
40499For what purpose, then, shall it be committed?
40499For what reason have we made a difference between the President and Vice President?
40499For what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a State renounces the principles that constitute their security?
40499From whence, he asked, do we acquire the authority to exercise this power?
40499Gentlemen had said, Shall this House not have as much power respecting Treaties as the House of Commons in Great Britain?
40499Gentlemen on the other side had spoken of their feelings; did they suppose, he asked, that those who were in the majority had not feelings?
40499Gentlemen say it will work injustice; but are we not as much bound to repair the injustice done by the United States?
40499Gentlemen say the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for the information he gives the House-- in what manner does this responsibility act?
40499Gentlemen say-- why provide the money if it be not wanted?
40499Gentlemen talked about impeachment?
40499Government, in the most solemn manner, pledged itself to make compensation to the soldiers, have they done it?
40499Grant it; but can they say that we shall never have a war with any European power?
40499Great Britain obtained no soldiers from her East and West India settlements, were they therefore useless?
40499Had experience proved that the negroes would not make good soldiers?
40499Had it a concurrent right with the States?
40499Had not our neutrality been the occasion of our wealth and prosperity?
40499Had not the managers of our Government kept a watchful eye on our affairs?
40499Had she a claim under the Treaty of 1783, which is forgotten?
40499Had the Executive avowed the plan of the Secretary of War, or his reasoning?
40499Had the public mind been less disturbed on the late Treaty than in 1793?
40499Had they a right to assist in the formation of Treaties in such a manner as that a Treaty would be incomplete without their sanction officially given?
40499Had they done so?
40499Had they not a claim on the House to adopt such means as would enable the citizens in every State to judge of the propriety of public measures?
40499Had this done any good to the cause?
40499Has not the Legislature done so before?
40499Has that been altered since by the incorporation of amendments?
40499Has the constitution made this House a diplomatic body, invested with the powers of negotiation?
40499Have any nations in the present European war, premised their operations by a declaration?
40499Have not express charges, as well as vague rumors, been brought against him at the bar of the public?
40499Have not the public a right to know the sentiments of the House on every question?
40499Have the newspapers reprobated it?
40499Have the principles on which you ground the reproach upon Cabinets and Kings no practical influence-- no binding force?
40499Have there not bills originated in this House which have caused the expenditure of much money to very little purpose?
40499Have these people here( the Democratic societies) any such opportunity?
40499Have they any right to interfere with our internal policy?
40499Have they not pushed conquests into the Indian country north- west of the Ohio?
40499Have they precedent for this assertion?
40499Have we heard any complaints against it?
40499Have we not laid extra duties on various articles, expressly for the purpose of encouraging various branches of our own manufactures?
40499Have we not, said he, been one of the happiest nations upon earth?
40499Have we received a power to exercise in wantonly oppressing those who gave it?
40499Have we, in truth, originated this money bill?
40499Have you any proof to cite that you are not guilty?
40499Have you got any new associates in this city?
40499Having stated these preliminaries, Mr. B. proceeded to inquire what were the powers attempted to be exercised by this bill?
40499Having this advantage, can it be doubted that we have not industry and enterprise to improve it?
40499He adverted to the idea of direct taxation, and inquired, on what principle will gentlemen consent to this mode of raising the necessary supplies?
40499He appealed to the feelings of every honorable man in the committee, whether demands for justice and reparation for injuries were enforced by threats?
40499He asked if any of the States had ever established various rates for their lands?
40499He asked if the Creeks performed a single tittle of the treaty of New York, about which there had been so much parade?
40499He asked if, before the purchase, the certificates were debts due from the United States?
40499He asked if, in the present situation of the country, all dependence was to be placed on commerce?
40499He asked what better time there was than the present for settling the amount of these claims?
40499He asked what would this countervail be?
40499He asked whether this Government was intended for a temporary or a lasting one?
40499He asked whether words could be devised that would place the new Government more precisely in the same relation to the real creditors with the old?
40499He asked, if, in such a case, it was competent to the House rightfully to withhold the means necessary for the performance of the public engagement?
40499He asked, upon parallel principles, what might Congress not do?
40499He asked, what was the authority of the United States?
40499He asked, who would lend us money, if there was such a difficulty in establishing funds to pay the interest of it?
40499He had asked, why, since the PRESIDENT had proclaimed a Treaty as the law of the land, which was not the law of the land, why he was not impeached?
40499He had said, how could they determine whether the Treaty was constitutional or not, or whether an impeachment was necessary, without information?
40499He inquired how the gentleman proposed to get information?
40499He inquired of him whether the House itself went into an investigation of facts in the first instance?
40499He inquired whether the House were to sanction and authorize the reports of the proposed stenographer?
40499He noticed the objection from banks banishing the specie; he said the surplus only would be sent out of the country; but is it given away?
40499He only wanted to ask whether the call for yeas and nays was withdrawn or not?
40499He proceeded to inquire whether this clause gives them the right to make Treaties the supreme law of the land?
40499He said, gentlemen asked who would be offended or hurt by this plan?
40499He then inquired what better time there could be for learning the number and extent of the losses than the present?
40499He then inquired whether, under the existing state of things, the Treaty ought to be rejected?
40499He then inquired, of what right does this incorporation deprive a single citizen?
40499He thought it advisable to guard against abuses; but has this abuse not already taken place?
40499He was next interrogated by the SPEAKER, as follows: Are you guilty, or not guilty?
40499He was then asked, whether the call of yesterday was valid to- day, or if it was necessary for the members to rise over again?
40499He would inquire how they became so?
40499He would inquire what Treaties could be entered into by the PRESIDENT and Senate, without infringing upon the powers placed in Congress?
40499His first inquiry, he said, should be, whether negroes were to be considered as property?
40499How are the judges to determine in the case; are they to be guided in their decisions by the rules of expediency?
40499How are those sentiments reconcilable to the oath we have taken?
40499How are we to form one?
40499How can gentlemen answer for this, who call themselves representatives, on the broad basis of national interest?
40499How can it be such an_ ex post facto_ law as is prescribed by the constitution, when that expression is conjunctive with a bill of attainder?
40499How can the business originate in this House, if we have it reported to us by the Minister of Finance?
40499How can they reconcile their conduct?
40499How can we help it?
40499How could certain members reconcile this proceeding with their former votes and language?
40499How could it then bear a comparison with that House, who were chosen by the whole people every two years?
40499How could they annul a State law, when the State would be able to plead a precedent on the part of Congress?
40499How could they be called freemen, if they were, against their consent, to be expelled from the country?
40499How could they delegate a power to others which they did not possess themselves?
40499How did that appear?
40499How is this to be done?
40499How long could an enlightened people remain in such a state of insensibility and torpor?
40499How many of them are springing up in the Northern States?
40499How many ways of proceeding lie open before us?
40499How retaliate?
40499How then can gentlemen assert that the powers of appointment and removal are incident to the Executive Department of Government?
40499How then do you propose to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury?
40499How then was he to find evidence of his behavior during such a length of time?
40499How was that money applied, and what will now be necessary?
40499How was this done?
40499How was this to settle the principle of excise?
40499How were they to regulate commerce?
40499How were we to act?
40499How will he please both?
40499How will they know the laws, if we do not understand the constitution after it has been in operation for nearly eight years?
40499How will this doctrine operate upon the power of appropriation?
40499How would he embarrass his family and property in such engagements?
40499How, then, can gentlemen from those States contend that the proposed duty is so much too high as to occasion the fatal consequences they foretell?
40499How, then, can gentlemen reconcile their conduct of this day to the liberality they have hitherto shown?
40499How, then, can gentlemen suppose the revenue ought to be perpetual, in order to be commensurate with the object?
40499How, then, is it possible they can continue their trade, when you lop off another part of their capital?
40499I am sensible this Treaty presents itself with an unfavorable aspect, and what is the reason?
40499I ask again, Mr. Chairman, if the people of this country possess less power than the people of that despotic Government?
40499I ask gentlemen, can there be a greater evil than this in any Government?
40499I ask, further, when such attempts have been made, have they not failed of success?
40499I asked those, as I might ask my colleague now, who of our constituents could calculate what he would save by any proposed reduction of our pay?
40499I asked, is not the assignment of certificates confirmed by the motion?
40499I asked, of what is the assignee deprived but of his late sanguine expectations?
40499I asked, where is the injustice of the State''s complying with its engagements made to the first holders of certificates as far as the case admits?
40499I asked, whether the proposition before us does not rather establish confidence in Government than the contrary?
40499I can not, for my part, conceive how any person can be said to acquire a property in another; is it by virtue of conquest?
40499I fear war as much as any man, when a pretext is given; but can it be seriously said a rejection of this Treaty is a cause of war?
40499I resort especially to the convictions of the Western gentlemen, whether, supposing no posts and no Treaty, the settlers will remain in security?
40499I say, would not such reflections, with ruin before our eyes, produce a degree of irritation in the most calm amongst us?
40499I trust it is neither too presumptuous, nor too late to ask, can you put the dearest interest of society at risk without guilt, and without remorse?
40499I will ask the gentleman by what precise authority he borrowed the money in Amsterdam and Antwerp, and paid it in Paris?
40499I will ask, are they more?
40499I will ask, though, is this country ever to be in a settled and quiet state?
40499I will ask, was it ever known in a Treaty, that a stipulation was made to give up property plundered after the peace?
40499I wish, therefore, to be ascertained of one fact, do the army wish a measure of this kind to take place?
40499I wonder where they are going so cheerfully?"
40499I would ask what state we were in then?
40499I would ask, if the other members of the Union are not also to be consulted?
40499I would beg to ask those, then, who are desirous of freeing the negroes, if they have funds sufficient to pay for them?
40499If I receive a favor, what but the sentiment of gratitude ought to direct me in my acknowledgments?
40499If a cargo of nails were to be sent to Carolina, I would be glad to know how we are to purchase it?
40499If a law is the expression of the will, must not an appropriation law be equally so?
40499If a permanent seat is established, why not go to it immediately?
40499If a war should suddenly break out, how is Congress to provide for it?
40499If a wish of Congress can bring them into the Union, why should we decline to express such a wish?
40499If any article is warranted on this account, how much more are we authorized to proceed on this occasion?
40499If authority beyond this is assumed, however trifling the encroachment at first, where will it stop?
40499If by the ill- timed promulgation of this report, we have laid the foundation for the calamity, ought we not to counteract it?
40499If every member is to be bound by instructions how to vote, what are gentlemen from the extremities of the continent to do?
40499If future difficulties should involve that nation still further, what must be the consequence?
40499If he can not be removed, I should suppose he can not be suspended; and what security have the people against the machinations of a bad man in office?
40499If his father had lived a few years longer, would there have arisen any question on this subject?
40499If it be true, then, can the PRESIDENT repeal, as he has by the Treaty, the laws of Congress, although by the constitution he can not negative them?
40499If it is inquired where we are to draw the line of a liberal construction, I will also inquire where the line of restriction is to be drawn?
40499If it is, is the conclusion not obvious, that Congress have power to pass laws for carrying these powers into effect?
40499If merchants can not get insurance, will they send their vessels out?
40499If not, then, 2dly, Whether both, or either, and which of them, ought to be ratified?
40499If our Senate should take any unwarrantable stride towards aristocracy, have we not the power to check them?
40499If sequestration is hostility, as he had heard it called, what, he asked, is condemnation?
40499If so, to what an extent must they go?
40499If so, what was that expense, or what will be the probable increase?
40499If so, will there be any economy in this mode of procedure?
40499If suspicion had so long existed against the integrity of the Secretary, why was not information called for at the beginning of the session?
40499If that was done, the Government would be removed to the Potomac; if not, we should stop short of it; and what would be the consequence?
40499If the House undertake to censure particular classes of men, who can tell where they will stop?
40499If the Indians are to be kept in peace by bribes, why not, in this, as in other similar cases, by presents and pecuniary rewards?
40499If the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate have a right to make a law, do Congress make all laws?
40499If the Potomac is struck out, are you sure of getting Baltimore?
40499If the Secretary has paid what was due, what then is the complaint?
40499If the Treaty had been the most complete and satisfactory, would it not be necessary to leave something to enforce its execution?
40499If the controlling influence of this House was added, would the power be less?
40499If the country had been plunged into a war, would it be as flourishing as it is?
40499If the member from Virginia( Mr. GILES) had been opposed to the Treaty going into operation, why did he not take the proper mode to prevent it?
40499If the next Legislature were disposed to violate the public honor, would the law now under consideration stand in their way?
40499If the officer misbehaves, he can be removed by impeachment; but in this case is impeachment the only mode of removal?
40499If the power flows from the nature and necessity of the case, it may be demanded, is the renot equal authority for the Bank?
40499If the thing is in itself right, why refuse to vote directly for it?
40499If then the fishermen ask you to restore only their own money, will you deny them?
40499If these facts are established by the committee, would it give equal satisfaction as if they were established by the House?
40499If these were really their sentiments, why did they not abide by them?
40499If they are, will they take them by force?
40499If they come here with badges at their button- holes, can you forbid them?
40499If they do, what is the injury arising from the adoption of the resolution intended to be submitted to the committee?
40499If they had such an abhorrence for slavery, why, said Mr. S., did they not cast us off and reject our alliance?
40499If they intermeddle in the business of sailors, why not in that of manufacturers and farmers?
40499If they will not be content with that, shall it be committed to investigate facts?
40499If this argument was founded in fact, it would put an end to all debates on all the new taxes; but what was this notable discovery?
40499If this doctrine prevails, to what a situation would the Representatives of a free people be reduced?
40499If this is the case, does it not imply a censure by the House on certain characters?
40499If this is the case, is there any person of humanity that would not wish to prevent them?
40499If this is the case, will a revenue law for one or two years bring that relief which is expected?
40499If this is to be adduced as a proof of the popularity of a measure, what are we to say with respect to a tax on tea?
40499If this right was denied them, where would the principle stop?
40499If this system should prevail, were we to receive British productions through other countries?
40499If to continue in session be an evil, why are we here?
40499If we are parties, what would be the decision before a court of justice?
40499If we do not mean to deceive, why not make the provision commensurate to the occasion?
40499If we pay this attention to them, in one instance, what good reason is there for contemning them in another?
40499If we refuse to say that the act itself is a crime, how can we condemn Randall as criminal?
40499If we relinquish this branch of the cod fishery, what is left us?
40499If we should go as far South as Baltimore, why not an equal distance south- west to the Potomac?
40499If what he said was not sufficient to disprove it, he asked where is the evidence to support it?
40499If you do not mean to indemnify, why inquire at all?
40499If, then, they chose to yield one species of property, might they not another?
40499If, therefore, some interpretation of the constitution must be indulged, by what rules is it to be governed?
40499If, therefore, we are forewarned, ought we not to be forearmed?
40499In addition to the loss of this Government, would not every member of the Legislature, he asked, lose his character, credit, and reputation?
40499In case of an army establishment, for example, suppose the PRESIDENT or Senate were to refuse their assent to the repeal of a law establishing it?
40499In cases of a more serious kind, is not sentiment the only prompt and enlightened guide of our conduct?
40499In discussing the question, he inquired, What has Congress already done?
40499In favor of the militia, it may be asked, who fought the battle of Bunker''s Hill?
40499In many cases the Executives are not in particular vested with the power of appointment; and do they exercise that power by virtue of their office?
40499In short, was not this a kind of argument infinitely more tending to the production of prejudice than to the discovery of truth?
40499In spite of this mock solemnity, I demand, if the House will not concur in the measure to execute the Treaty, what other course shall we take?
40499In such case, may not titles do an injury to the Union?
40499In this case a question arises: What is, upon the whole, most just and expedient?
40499In what does the case differ between the depreciated paper and the certificates?
40499In what manner had this trust been carried into execution?
40499In what mode are the memorialists to be informed of our humane dispositions?
40499Instead of Baltimore, is it not probable we may have Susquehanna inserted, perhaps the Delaware?
40499Is Congress vested with power to grant privileges contained in the bill?
40499Is he absolutely bound to perform what he is instructed to do?
40499Is his maxim supported by precedent drawn from the practice of the individual States?
40499Is it a narrow affection for the spot where a man was born?
40499Is it among the archives?
40499Is it because the feelings of the Friends will be hurt to have their affair conducted in the usual course of business?
40499Is it contended to be out of order?
40499Is it expected that a Senator shall eat more, or drink more costly liquors, than a member of the House of Representatives?
40499Is it expected, said Mr. N., that I am to abandon my independence for the sake of the PRESIDENT?
40499Is it for the_ undaunted_ and_ energetic_ countenance of the cause of France, in her struggle for freeing herself from despotic shackles?
40499Is it from such a nation( he asked) that we are to hope for justice?
40499Is it limited by any law past?
40499Is it limited by the provisions with respect to appropriations?
40499Is it necessary to add, that a powerful body of seamen, at some future day, may save us from the vast expense and danger of a standing army?
40499Is it necessary, or was it ever thought so, to make it a stipulation by Treaty?
40499Is it not an established principle amongst all civilized nations, that plundered property shall be given up?
40499Is it not because we have entertained too exalted ideas of our own national importance?
40499Is it not implied by all of them, that certain oaths, residence, and property, make the requisites to form citizenship?
40499Is it not on account of his superior station and his dignity?
40499Is it not our business to inquire into the cause of this strange conduct?
40499Is it not part of our legislative authority?
40499Is it not sufficient that their time and talents are given to the public?
40499Is it not the duty of the House to check this spirit of devastation?
40499Is it our present President?
40499Is it polite, is it generous, to force him to renounce it?
40499Is it politic and wise, then, Mr. Chairman, to exert the power contended for, even if it be authorized by the constitution?
40499Is it possible that any man can be hardy enough to avow them, and their ridiculous consequences?
40499Is it possible that these societies can exist, for any length of time, when they are of no real use to the country?
40499Is it possible to transport the revenue from one end of the continent to the other?
40499Is it pretended that the services and supplies were an inadequate compensation?
40499Is it reasonable to expect that men should sacrifice domestic ease and the interests of their families to serve their country?
40499Is it supposed that all this matter can go off without any noise or combustion?
40499Is it the_ manly_ demand of restitution made of Great Britain for her accumulated injuries that called forth the praise?
40499Is it to rouse again the sleeping apparitions which have disturbed the back country?
40499Is it to show that the mock dangers which they have pretended to dread are real?
40499Is it to them we owe our present happiness?
40499Is it true, that an unwillingness to pay debts hath been the principal cause of opposition to this Treaty?
40499Is it within the powers of this Congress to grant bounties?
40499Is it worthy the attention of Government that the cod fishery should be preserved?
40499Is it written?
40499Is not our public credit totally gone?
40499Is not the assignment of the certificates confirmed by the nation?
40499Is not the present a most favorable opportunity for holding up these people to popular resentment?
40499Is not this House excluded?
40499Is not this, as a principle, as novel, as improper, as that which alarms our opponents?
40499Is not, therefore, eight cents disproportioned to the rates fixed, or intended to be imposed on other articles?
40499Is that nation more debased than others?
40499Is the House to be told that, for the sake of harmony, they must give up their own powers and opinions?
40499Is the House to consider the present, or the expected population?
40499Is the Treaty- making power not a power vested by the constitution in the Government of the United States, or in a department or officer thereof?
40499Is the confidence of the people in the services, and patriotism, and wisdom of the Chief Magistrate diminished?
40499Is the power of establishing an incorporated bank among the powers vested by the constitution in the Legislature of the United States?
40499Is the zeal of gentlemen, who oppose this design, influenced by their despair of removing the seat of Government afterwards?
40499Is the_ habeas corpus_ act, or the statute_ De Tallagio non concedendo_ incorporated in_ magna charta_?
40499Is there a common centre?
40499Is there a man who does not believe that, had the treaty not been ratified, we should have had war?
40499Is there a reciprocal stipulation by Great Britain with respect to the articles unexecuted by her?
40499Is there another point of law and justice for the Government?
40499Is there any difference in effect between lodging general powers in a government, and permitting the exercise of them by subtle constructions?
40499Is there any fair construction by which the bill can be deemed an exercise of the power to borrow money?
40499Is there any impropriety in desiring them to consider a question which they have not yet decided?
40499Is there any impropriety in paying this mark of respect to a man to whom all America owes such indelible obligations?
40499Is there any other head proposed to be on the coin but the President''s?
40499Is there any thing improper or unwise in this determination?
40499Is there any thing wrong in this?
40499Is there any time when the civil list will cease its demand?
40499Is there not more responsibility in one man than in large bodies?
40499Is this House to negotiate the Treaty over again?
40499Is this bill to borrow money?
40499Is this exciting mobs?
40499Is this fair?
40499Is this gratitude or insult?
40499Is this language to be used within the United States?
40499Is this pursuing a liberal system of politics?
40499Is this right, is this just, that all our rights should be thus bartered away under a Treaty- making power?
40499Is this so?
40499Is this the peace gentlemen undertake, with such fearless confidence, to maintain?
40499Is this to be the style of an American Congress?
40499Is this, he asked, consonant to the feelings of the House, and shall they not attempt to counteract its effects in the only constitutional manner?
40499It does not call for any thing to be done, then why a reference?
40499It had been asked if the PRESIDENT was responsible for the contents of this Report from the Secretary of War?
40499It had been asked why the call for information had not been sooner made?
40499It had been asked, what control the House were to have over this officer?
40499It has been asked, Is not the Senate as worthy of the confidence of the citizens of the United States as this House?
40499It has, indeed, been said, it will shorten our sessions; but would this be a benefit?
40499It is more than probable she will, and if she should, what remedy have we?
40499It is not for his gratification; for whose, then, are we to do this?
40499It is only to be inquired, then, whether this was a proper subject of retaliation?
40499It is said we have not done much, and what we have done is merely our duty, for which we receive wages?
40499It is the commercial importance of the city of London which makes it the seat of Government; and what is the consequence?
40499It is true, we may live for two dollars a day; but how?
40499It may be a future question, also, whether he is to be dismissed when the galleries are cleared?
40499It was a payment of our_ bona fide_ debts; what could we do?
40499It was acknowledged by every gentleman that the Treaty of 1783 was broken by the United States; and, if so, what could their negotiator do?
40499It was asked if the Treaty power could receive any check?
40499It was asked, by what means is the Government to administer redress?
40499It was asked, what would be the consequence of refusing to carry the Treaty into effect?
40499It was enough to fix the general principles, viz: Whether there shall be a General Land Officer and two subordinates?
40499It was nothing more or less than, would they or would they not now appropriate moneys to carry the British Treaty into effect?
40499It was true, that a proposition for postponement was made, but what was the extent of that postponement?
40499JACKSON.--Do not gentlemen think there is some danger on the other side?
40499Lastly, did it authorize an extensive increase of the Sinking Fund, which we are informed is one of the principal objects?
40499Let me ask gentlemen, if they, or any of their connections, would accept an appointment under this law, with such an exceptionable clause in it?
40499Let me ask, why there is for ever so much complaint against Great Britain because she does not open all her colonies freely to us?
40499Let us pause for a moment, and ask, Was this possible?
40499Let us, then, inquire, is the constituting a public bank necessary to these important and essential ends of Government?
40499Lewis.--Then it was, he said, that if it was not convenient for Mr. MURRAY to be concerned in a share in land, he might have it in money?
40499Little or nothing: how then could he ascertain who was a proper person to legislate or judge of the laws?
40499Look at the constitution of Great Britain; is that all contained in one instrument?
40499MADISON?)
40499Major Torrey died in September, 1783; shall this body decide against the settled rule of all the law courts?
40499Many exertions had he to make to feed the hungry and cover the naked; were not these for the public good, and shall his private property suffer?
40499May no other place be proposed?
40499May not Congress with equal propriety, undertake to regulate the tobacco, the rice, and indigo trade, as well as that of the fisheries?
40499May we promise ourselves more success in negotiation by laying down our arms, or by retaining them?
40499Might they not say that they were betwixt nations what bargains were betwixt individuals?
40499Mr. AMES then asked, whether it was not competent to put the previous question, viz: Shall this call be now taken?
40499Mr. BALDWIN asked if the Government of the United States of America was four or five times worse to be administered than the Governments in Europe?
40499Mr. BENSON wished the committee to consider what he judged to be a previous question, namely, how many departments there should be established?
40499Mr. BOUDINOT asked what assurance we have that Britain will not play the same game over again that she has done already?
40499Mr. CLARK would be very glad to hear the gentleman from Pennsylvania( Mr. FINDLAY) specify, upon what subject he was willing to pay a tax?
40499Mr. DAYTON rose and asked,"Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?"
40499Mr. DEXTER interrupted Mr. HARTLEY to inquire whether, by the laws of this State, the property of an insurgent is forfeited for his crime?
40499Mr. GERRY observed, that some gentleman had said the Speaker is not an officer; but if he is not an officer, what is he?
40499Mr. GILES said this subject had struck him in two points of view: whether Congress are not precluded from exercising any discretion on the subject?
40499Mr. GOODHUE wished to ask Mr. CLAIBORNE one question,"Whether he found himself growing rich?"
40499Mr. JACKSON said, in reply to the inquiry of Mr. SEDGWICK--"Why have we made a difference between the President and the Vice President?"
40499Mr. LAWRENCE would inquire for what purpose the cession, mentioned in the constitution, was required?
40499Mr. LIVINGSTON then proposed a question, Whether any of the shares had been left unappropriated by your associates and you?
40499Mr. MADISON asked if the quantity of rum so exported was very considerable?
40499Mr. NICHOLAS inquired if there was any law on this head?
40499Mr. PARKER wanted to know what was the object of gentlemen in the appointment of a Committee of Conference?
40499Mr. S. asked him, whether in the Senate?
40499Mr. S. asked, what, then, were they?
40499Mr. SMITH was asked whether the offer was that they were to be granted at an inferior rate?
40499Mr. STONE asked the gentleman last up, how he meant to have the amendments incorporated?
40499Mr. T. said, this is all the length which we mean to go, and can any body object to this?
40499Mr. Tilghman asked what Mr. MURRAY expressed to Randall when it was proposed to him to engage in the land scheme?
40499Mr. Tilghman asked, whether Mr. MURRAY did not, to get the man''s whole secret from him, go beyond his views to draw him on?
40499Mr. Tilghman then, through the SPEAKER, asked Mr. MURRAY whether he understood he was to pay for his share of land as the other associates or not?
40499Mr. W. SMITH then asked Randall, whether it was not true, that he spoke to Mr. SAMUEL SMITH before he spoke to himself?
40499Mr. W. asked, was this not done?
40499Mr. WHITNEY was next asked at what time he would be ready to proceed with his defence?
40499Must every transaction that took place, during the course of the last war, be ripped up?
40499Must they pay their expenses too?
40499My colleague says that he is not a man of fortune; but, has he not a profession by which he can make more than by his attendance on this House?
40499Need I say that we fly in the face of that resolution when we pretend that the acts of that power are not valid until we have concurred in them?
40499Negroes, it was said, would not fight; but he would ask whether it was owing to their being black or to their being slaves?
40499Ninety thousand dollars was all the money at stake; but what has since been seen?
40499No, sir; and is it in the contemplation of gentlemen to lay duties so high as to produce this equality?
40499No; but we solicited, and pay dear for that passage; or did we go to the King of Spain, and demand a free navigation of the Mississippi?
40499Now he would be glad to know if the distilleries and fisheries would not be precisely in the same situation, let which would take place?
40499Now will you urge in argument for taxing the poor, that they already practise that temperance which you desire to bring universally about?
40499Now, I ask gentlemen, whether the professed design of those duties was to raise a revenue, or to prevent the importation of those articles?
40499Now, he wished to know, what principle of justice authorized the committee to lay a duty of six cents on molasses?
40499Now, he would ask, if gentlemen could expect that the northern people would incline to go so far south?
40499Now, if these people were to petition Congress to pass a law prohibiting matrimony, would gentlemen agree to refer such a petition?
40499Now, in this case, what would you do?
40499Now, is it intended to determine a centre from these three centres?
40499Now, said he, do we think of refusing this privilege to all heretics in respect to political doctrines?
40499Now, what is meant by reporting plans?
40499Now, what more than this is required by the clause?
40499Now, will any Government take such measures in gathering in its harvest, as to ruin the soil?
40499Of individuals?
40499Of the Treasury Department, too, which is considered in other countries as possessing and exercising the means of corruption?
40499Of what use, then, was it to establish principles which could not govern the conduct of the House?
40499Of what?
40499On a division, shall the committee now rise?
40499On motion for the previous question, to wit: Shall the question be now put on the following preliminary resolutions?
40499On the first of June, the British were to give up the Western posts; if money was not appropriated, would they not be deceived?
40499On the other hand, were not a Greene and a Mifflin furnished from the Society of the Quakers?
40499On the other hand, whether it was not the most effectual mean of preserving his popularity, and of keeping him in office?
40499On their Representatives?
40499On what ground could this assumption have been made?
40499On what principle can this distinction then be contended for?
40499On what principle did he accept it?
40499On what then do the people depend for checking encroachments, or preventing abuses?
40499Once, however, he did see him; the first question of Mr. SEDGWICK was, from what State did he come?
40499Or does it speak the same language now, as it did at the time it was obtained?
40499Or does the Legislature establish them for the convenience of an individual?
40499Or how can they say it is more expensive to establish it in this way than in another?
40499Or is it wise to stand by and depend upon such a resource?
40499Or is the Speaker to write them a letter, or the Sergeant- at- Arms with the mace to wait on them?
40499Or rather, as my colleague has proposed, if they are incapable to pay both, will they not prefer a composition?
40499Or shall we send across the sea for loans?
40499Or shall we, by a candid and liberal construction of the powers expressed in the constitution, promote the great and important objects thereof?
40499Or should we drive all printers from us who take notes, for the inaccuracies of some?
40499Or the ruin of thousands and thousands by our delays of payment, and the consequent depreciation of our securities?
40499Or was it true, that this power was competent to treat with every government on earth but that of Great Britain?
40499Or was there any use for it but that the sentiments of every member might be known?
40499Or where is the justice of doing more for the assignee than he, or his assignor, expected could or would be done?
40499Or whether it restrained the States from exercising that power?
40499Or whether there was any authority given to the Union, with which the exercise of this right by any State would be inconsistent?
40499Or, if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoyments be in a country odious to the eyes of strangers and dishonored in his own?
40499Or, will the Government of the United States support the claim of the injured against her own Executive?
40499Or, will you say that Congress might issue paper money?
40499Ought they, from their remoteness, to be kept in the dark, or to be furnished with such light as would only mislead?
40499Ought we to have at once acceded to hers?
40499Our understandings have been addressed, it is true, and with ability and effect; but, I demand, has any corner of the heart been left unexplored?
40499Perhaps I may be asked, Did not the States depend chiefly upon their own exertion for the defence of the frontiers under the old Congress?
40499Pray, let me ask, if Great Britain have not equally tied their hands?
40499Pray, would it not be a proper bar to the recovery of damages in a court of law to say Government has paid you?
40499Provisions had been made by this House to carry Indian Treaties into effect; but why?
40499SCOTT.--Has not this Government a right to restrain every wild- goose excursion into the woods?
40499SEDGWICK.--Has it not been said that there was a party in the United States, not only for aristocracy, but even for monarchy?
40499SWIFT) that, by paying these claims in the first instance, you are cutting the sinews of civil process?
40499Shall a Treaty repeal a law or a law a Treaty?
40499Shall his family be reduced to beggary, be stripped of their all, to discharge what the United States are in honor and in justice bound to pay?
40499Shall it be said, that the House have a discretion as to appropriations, and yet they must make them as directed by a Treaty?
40499Shall the House take no further measures on the subject, and receive the answer of the PRESIDENT as obligatory with regard to the question?
40499Shall the Senate, because they may think it in one case trifling, or conceive the power ought to be placed in them, assume it?
40499Shall the United States stipulate solemnly to guarantee the new boundary which may be arranged?
40499Shall they not declare their own and their constituents''confidence undiminished in that officer of the Government?
40499Shall they take the Lake of the Woods on one side, and the Missouri on the other, and find a geographical centre?
40499Shall we hazard an entire loss of this revenue?
40499Shall we intrust the conduct of that matter to the very persons who it has been alleged are often the aggressors?
40499Shall we leave it to the fisherman, to be determined by his oath?
40499Shall we make it an excuse for refusing to pass this vote, that we establish the principle of thanking nobody?
40499Shall we never have done with the settlement and liquidation of our accounts?
40499Shall we not let them see the end of their burthen in the law itself?
40499Shall we put our hands into the pockets of our constituents, and appropriate moneys for uses we are undetermined of?
40499Shall we say that man ought to have been made otherwise?
40499Shall we say that the evidence carries on its face fraud and deception?
40499Shall we sit still and bear it?
40499Shall we then give up to a body, who has already a superiority over us, those superior powers which we possess relative to revenue?
40499Shall we then proceed without them?
40499Shall we then restrain a man from having an agency in the disposal of his own money?
40499Shall we, dreading to become the blind instruments of power, yield ourselves the blinder dupes of mere sounds of imposture?
40499Should Government, said Mr. V., come forward and show their imbecility by censuring what we can not punish?
40499Should any thing be done at this time in the way of commercial regulations towards vindicating and advancing our national interests?
40499Should that credit be destroyed( he asked) by destroying the confidence of foreigners in our faith?
40499Should these fifty dollars fall to the Government, or to me?
40499Should they then pass the law in such a manner as almost to warrant the people in resisting it?
40499Should this bill pass, what can it be denominated but a delusion, a deception, sanctioned by Congress itself?
40499Should those of our citizens who furnished the supplies, or loaned their money, be the only class who are injured?
40499Since the bounty is to cease by this bill, what advantage in striking it out?
40499Sir, did we fight for this?
40499Suppose a person in office, not possessing the talents he was judged to have at the time of the appointment, is the error not to be corrected?
40499Suppose he dislikes them, and will not have them, he is guilty of a breach of the law, is it intended by the House to impeach him for it?
40499Suppose he refuses, will his vote be the less valid, or the community be disengaged from that obedience which is due to the laws of the Union?
40499Suppose that all the Indians were driven over the Mississippi to- morrow, to whom would the lands which they now possess belong?
40499Suppose that authority were in this way to grant millions upon millions, must the House, at all events, be compelled to provide for their payment?
40499Suppose that, on the arrival of the definitive treaty, Congress had not agreed to the terms, would the war have then been considered as at an end?
40499Suppose the revenue should fall short of his estimate, is he responsible for the balance?
40499Suppose they instruct a representative, by his vote, to violate the constitution; is he at liberty to obey such instructions?
40499Suppose, however, that it were omitted, and our country invaded, would a decision in Congress against raising armies be safer than the affirmative?
40499Suppose, then, a vessel of thirty tons obtains, in a season, six hundred quintals of fish?
40499Surely the substance ought not to pay at this rate-- then what good reason can be offered for the measure?
40499Take all these together, is it not to be doubted that twelve hundred and fifty- six dollars will remain of the forty- four thousand in the Treasury?
40499That gentleman wished to know to what point this information was to apply?
40499That is not the question; but whether, organized as we are, under the constitution, we have a right to make such a grant?
40499That it has been contrived with a view to lead them on by degrees to that kind of government which they have thrown off with abhorrence?
40499The British Parliament has now no pay; but have they been as independent as their countrymen wished them under the British Government?
40499The British had gone past them, and what was to hinder the Algerines, or such a man as Mr. Cooper, from getting past them?
40499The French wished to be paid here, and it being no loss, but rather a profit, to comply with their wish, where was the harm in so doing?
40499The House asked a question; the PRESIDENT answered in the negative-- for what purpose refer the answer?
40499The House divided on the question,"Shall the delegate take an oath as a member?"
40499The PRESIDENT asserts it; in the Address reported, the Senate assent; a motion is made to strike out; is it because the truth of it is doubted?
40499The Romans and Greeks had slaves, and are not their glorious achievements held up as excitements to great and magnanimous actions?
40499The SPEAKER asked what time he wanted?
40499The SPEAKER then interrogated the prisoner, whether these charges were true or false?
40499The SPEAKER then said, Is this the prisoner?
40499The Treaty makes war indispensable, as the only redress of injuries, and how will war from the United States reach Great Britain?
40499The United States owe the value they received, which they acknowledge, and which they have promised to pay: what is that value?
40499The bill says it shall cease; and have gentlemen any objection to the bounty''s ceasing?
40499The bill was then read the third time; and on the question, Shall the bill pass?
40499The call for the question being now very general, it was put, shall the words"to be removable by the President,"be struck out?
40499The debt is the price of our liberties, and can not be diminished a farthing, the gentleman from Virginia says; and why?
40499The first of these was, whether the Algerines acted from their own impulse in this matter?
40499The first question is, how much does Government receive by the duty on the salt used in curing the fish which is exported?
40499The first question then was, is Congress vested with a power to grant the privileges contained in the bill?
40499The first questions that offer themselves, are: Was the money in question appropriated to special and distinct purposes?
40499The gentleman from Connecticut wished to know why he had brought this resolution before the House?
40499The gentleman from New Hampshire asked, what do the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate operate upon?
40499The gentleman says further, that the people have the right of instructing their representatives; if so, why not declare it?
40499The government of that territory is a corporation; and who will deny that Congress may lawfully establish a bank beyond the Ohio?
40499The grand question now is, did the State, by acceding to the confederation, give up her right of legislation?
40499The law is to supply the necessary means of executing the principle laid down; for how can it be carried into effect in any other manner?
40499The member asked, if the House were to close their understandings, and refuse all information from that quarter?
40499The merit of the amendment depends on its adaptedness to the end proposed by the bill, and what is that?
40499The next inquiry is, what rights will this company enjoy in this new character, that they do not enjoy independent of it?
40499The next question is, to what amount the public are at present indebted?
40499The only constant agents in political affairs are the passions of men-- shall we complain of our nature?
40499The only question now is, whether this be a direct bounty, or simply a commutation of the allowance already granted by Congress?
40499The only question, therefore, which appears to be before the committee is, whether we shall give this power to the President alone?
40499The point to be settled is whether it shall be done by an oral communication, or transmitted in writing?
40499The previous question being insisted upon, was put--"Shall the main question be now put?"
40499The previous question thereon was called for by five members, to wit:"Shall the main question, to agree to the said resolution, be now put?"
40499The previous question was called for by five members, to wit:"Shall the main question, to agree to the said resolution, be now put?"
40499The previous question was now called for, by five members, viz:"Shall the main question to agree to the said resolution, be now put?"
40499The previous question was then demanded by five members: Shall the main question be now put?
40499The previous question,"Shall the main question now be put?"
40499The principal inquiry is, will the institution facilitate the management of the finances?
40499The question before the committee was, have the United States taken away any claim which the purchasers of these lands had?
40499The question is, did he continue in service to the end of the war?
40499The question is, what shall be the duty on any particular article?
40499The question now to be determined, he conceived, was this-- is an addition to the present amount of the revenue necessary?
40499The question then is, by whom?
40499The question then is, whether the highest sum can be collected?
40499The question then recurred, what Treaties were made under the authority of the United States?
40499The question was called for, and put by the Chairman, Shall the committee now rise, and report progress?
40499The question was taken,"Whether the President of the United States shall be addressed by the title of_ His Excellency_?"
40499The question was then put by the SPEAKER, Shall the committee have leave to sit again?
40499The question was then put, Shall the committee now rise and report progress?
40499The question was then stated, to wit:"Shall the said bill be rejected?"
40499The question was then taken, do the House agree to the amendment?
40499The question was whether they were in a situation in which they could claim to be a State?
40499The question was, had the Secretary violated a law?
40499The question will only be, what powers has the constitution given, and to what departments have the same been distributed?
40499The question, then, is reduced to its expediency, whether it is good policy to exercise the power or not?
40499The remainder, viz:"If not, shall a temporary boundary be marked, making the Oconee the line, and the other parts of the treaty be concluded?"
40499The right of Congress to regulate trade is adduced as an argument in favor of this of creating a corporation; but what has this bill to do with trade?
40499The second, what the sum is that is proper for the article we select?
40499Their present inexperience will soon be done away by a proper mode of discipline, and why may not these troops be soon instructed?
40499Then they deemed war nearly inevitable, and would not this adjustment have been considered at that day as a happy escape from the calamity?
40499Then was it proper, he asked, that the Executive should be requested to make a second answer, and nearly in the same words?
40499Then why all this abuse of this particular sect, without discrimination?
40499Then why disturb the tranquillity of the people?
40499Then why not, for the sake of conciliation, grant it?
40499Then why should the poor of Massachusetts be taxed for the beverage they use of spruce, molasses and water?
40499Then you are bound, by this precedent, to indemnify him; and how can you distinguish what was the real motive to that outrage?
40499There appeared to him only two things as necessary to be inquired into: First, Was the new Government Republican?
40499There is a river, it is said, which runs two hundred miles into the country as far as the Allegany mountains; what advantage can this be to Congress?
40499There is no doubt, sir, but it will; but does this tend to show that the constituent has no right to instruct?
40499There is to be but one head; but does not our Government consist of three parts?
40499Therefore, why involve in this indiscriminate censure men who have deserved so well of their country?
40499These are the commercial acquisitions we have obtained by the Treaty; and let me ask, what have we given to Britain in return for them?
40499They must come in ballast: and will the mere transportation of our crop be a sufficient inducement to engage them to come here?
40499They, indeed, afford an exception to the cases above mentioned; but how far were they successful?
40499This being the fact, he inquired, what could be done with the Southern produce, in case of the exclusion of foreign bottoms?
40499This was a pleasing situation; but what was the situation of the British debtors?
40499This was true, he believed; but how would it apply in the sense the gentleman wished?
40499To others I will urge, can any circumstance mark upon a people more turpitude and debasement?
40499To such a nation was it proper to trust a latitude of that extent?
40499To the first of these I ask, against whom is the suit to commence?
40499To what purpose then to sound the alarm, and to ring the tocsin from Georgia to New Hampshire?
40499To what should they compare Treaties?
40499To what, he asked, would a contrary doctrine lead?
40499To what?
40499To whom was the care of our prisoners in Philadelphia committed?
40499True, it might be asked, why say negroes or other property?
40499Under all circumstances, should not his estate be indemnified?
40499Under it money may be borrowed, as well as commerce regulated; and why not money appropriated?
40499Under these circumstances, do gentlemen contend that an indiscriminate conduct is due to Great Britain and to Holland?
40499Under these circumstances, what was to be expected but complaints from the people, and a consequent repeal of the bill?
40499Under those circumstances what could we have done?
40499Upon what ground, then, do gentlemen stand?
40499VINING.--Why do gentlemen say that such an office is unnecessary, when they are forced to admit that all the duties are essential?
40499Was Government to be burdened with them, and derive no compensation?
40499Was he the author of the Funding System?
40499Was he the author of the plan for establishing the National Bank?
40499Was he the author of the report on the fisheries?
40499Was he to be both judge and executioner in his own case?
40499Was he to manufacture it himself, or in what way could he better obtain it than from the Heads of the Departments?
40499Was it a sufficient reason for exempting a district from public burdens to say that the people are poor?
40499Was it any unusual thing to call for the yeas and nays?
40499Was it consistent with the warmth which had been discovered, to say that all this discussion, all this length of time, had been consumed upon nothing?
40499Was it for this the soldier watched his numerous nights, and braved the inclemency of the seasons?
40499Was it in the opposition to the minority of the Senate and the general voice of the people against the treaty that that_ firmness_ was displayed?
40499Was it intended to have the constitution republished, and the alterations inserted in their proper places?
40499Was it not already settled in the constitution and by existing laws?
40499Was it not better to fill up the old corps, than to put ourselves to the inconvenience of raising a new one?
40499Was it not necessary for them to consult, and fix upon a proper place?
40499Was it not the ecclesiastical corporations and perpetual monopolies of England and Scotland?
40499Was it not then urged by members of that House that the British nation refused to negotiate with them?
40499Was it not to substantiate the truth of them by a vote?
40499Was it right that when a man had led our armies to victory, and returned, that he should be immediately stripped of his commission?
40499Was it they who formed the constitution?
40499Was it to be wondered at, if this swarm should raise a buzz about him?
40499Was it to remain as a pledge for the performance of the other?
40499Was it wantonly to throw away a privilege and natural right?
40499Was merit, then, to be the less regarded, because it was modest?
40499Was not peace the most to be desired, especially in our present situation?
40499Was not the good of the public his principal object?
40499Was not this representation true, he asked; could it be controverted?
40499Was not this returning good for evil?
40499Was not this true of all the great and essential powers of government?
40499Was one branch to be judges of discretion for another?
40499Was the Executive to trust the defence of a country to a militia formed under such a law?
40499Was the Message then alone referred as it is now proposed by some gentlemen?
40499Was the money, he asked, to have remained in the hands of the banker in Europe?
40499Was the property less changed by the law of a sovereign and independent State, than by the proclamation of a British commander?
40499Was there any other country which could give us the same supplies we wanted?
40499Was there no security against a wanton abuse of these enormous powers?
40499Was there no security in the watchful guardianship of such a character?
40499Was this depreciated paper freely accepted?
40499Was this insinuation pointed at Congress or the Executive?
40499Was this paper equal in value to gold or silver?
40499Was this the case?
40499Was this the object of the reference to the Secretary?
40499Was this, he asked, an exposition of the meaning of the constitution?
40499We have no doubt been cruelly treated; but we have made proper application for redress, and received an answer?
40499We refer, said he, to the wisdom of the Senate; but how is this superior wisdom to be discerned?
40499Were dollars, he asked, to be balanced by absolute appropriations?
40499Were not hundreds of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and almost of every other denomination, among our enemies?
40499Were not the archives, records, deeds,& c., which had also fallen into the hands of the enemy, their property?
40499Were not the latter as necessary as the former?
40499Were our citizens in a state of organization as militia?
40499Were our magazines and arsenals properly supplied?
40499Were our ports and harbors in any tolerable state of defence?
40499Were the Committee of the Whole to turn authors and write a dissertation on part of the constitution?
40499Were the Senate so chosen?
40499Were the advocates of this doctrine aware of its consequences, when they advanced it?
40499Were the citizens of the Northern and Eastern States to dictate to Congress on a measure in which the Southern States were so deeply interested?
40499Were the people jealous of this House, and not of the other branches?
40499Were there any petitions on the subject excepting that from the Pennsylvania Society and a few Quakers?
40499Were they called upon to give an opinion?
40499Were they to propose such a plan as this to us, would it not be received with indignation?
40499Were we not bound to take as much care of our own interest, as of that of other people?
40499Were we to demand satisfaction?
40499Were women and fatherless children to be regarded as traitors?
40499What are the emigrant nobility to renounce?
40499What are the rights of conquest?
40499What are these powers?
40499What are they to bring back in return?
40499What are they to do if they are discharged?
40499What are you?
40499What authority has this House to explain the law?
40499What clause is it that gives this power in express terms?
40499What could be more immoral than war?
40499What could he know of the Government the moment he landed?
40499What could induce this grant?
40499What denominations formed the thousands of new levies, that endeavored to deluge our country in blood?
40499What did the House meet for at all?
40499What did they want to do with it?
40499What difference, he asked, was there on that occasion and the present, when the French just adopted and organized a new government?
40499What does it import?
40499What effect would this doctrine, if admitted, have upon the State governments?
40499What equivalent do we receive for this sacrifice?
40499What evidence have we that the demand will stop there?
40499What good did his renunciation of title do, excepting that it afforded him a short opportunity of deceiving his fellow- citizens?
40499What good end could have been answered by a war?
40499What had been our situation ever since the negotiation?
40499What had been the custom of the House heretofore?
40499What has been the conduct of Great Britain, in relation to her funds?
40499What has carried the credit of that kingdom to a superior eminence, but the attention she has paid to public credit?
40499What has he left her to ask, what has he not surrendered?
40499What have Congress to do with the acts of States?
40499What if he refuses to answer at all?
40499What is a law?
40499What is now his answer?
40499What is now our prospect?
40499What is patriotism?
40499What is the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate?
40499What is the centre of wealth, population, and territory?
40499What is the charge?
40499What is the object for which men enter into society, but to secure their lives and property?
40499What is the object of the address before us?
40499What is the present case?
40499What is the present situation of our commerce?
40499What is the purport of the memorial?
40499What is the situation of Florence in consequence of this event?
40499What is the situation of those who are implicated in the causes of the failure?
40499What is the usual means of acquiring property between man and man?
40499What is there in the Treaty that could humble us so low?
40499What is there to discharge the Government from the payment?
40499What is to be done for compensation?
40499What is to be done while the impeachment is depending?
40499What is your name?
40499What is your usual place of residence?
40499What justifies these harsh epithets?
40499What kind of a business would this be?
40499What kind of reasoning was this, or how did the gentleman propose to reconcile it?
40499What man is there here that can be wicked enough to involve his country in such incalculable miseries?
40499What may Great Britain expect, if we will not settle our differences by negotiation?
40499What may be the consequence of binding a man to vote in all cases according to the will of others?
40499What may we expect will be the conduct of our own citizens?
40499What must have passed, he asked, between the soldier, the militiaman, or farmer, and the purchaser?
40499What occasion, then, can there be for them?
40499What reason could be adduced for acting?
40499What reason could the purchaser assign for offering £10 for a paper which specified an obligation to pay £100?
40499What reason is there for any such supposition?
40499What right had the House to say to a particular class of people, you shall not have that kind of property which other people have?
40499What security can there be for a commerce thus precariously conducted, in which your rivals are your judge?
40499What then are we called upon to do?
40499What then is the officer to be responsible for, which should induce the House to vest in him such extraordinary powers?
40499What then remains of your constitution, except its mode of organization?
40499What then should we have done?
40499What then will be the case?
40499What was it drove our forefathers to this country?
40499What was the allegiance, as a citizen of South Carolina, he owed to the King of Great Britain?
40499What was the case in the present instance?
40499What was the conduct of gentlemen?
40499What was the conduct of this society when the first news of the late insurrection reached them?
40499What was the effect of the embargo in 1794?
40499What was the event?
40499What was the present measure?
40499What was the representation to do?
40499What was the situation of the people of America, when the dissolution of their allegiance took place by the declaration of independence?
40499What was their interest, then?
40499What was this consideration?
40499What weapons have we which can reach her?
40499What were the powers and privileges of the House on the subject?
40499What were the steps then taken in that parallel case?
40499What will the assignee lose by the measure?
40499What will their constituents think of them?
40499What will this comprehend, or, rather, what will it not comprehend?
40499What would be the consequence, said Mr. B., of refusing at this time, and under these circumstances, to receive this State into the Union?
40499What would be the effect of a contrary doctrine?
40499What would be the effect of such an act of Parliament?
40499What would follow from this?
40499What( he asked) was their situation, and what had they to fear in case of an open rupture with Great Britain?
40499What, he asked, could be the end of all these things but war?
40499What, he asked, were these?
40499What, he further asked, would become of our produce, in the event contemplated?
40499What, let me inquire, will be the pernicious consequences resulting from the establishment of this doctrine?
40499What, said he, are we about to do?
40499What, said he, is its object?
40499What, said he, would be the consequence of such construction?
40499What, sir, is the intention of this business?
40499What, then, becomes of its strength?
40499What, then, permit me to inquire, can the power of treating effect?
40499When Britain has been at the trouble of stipulating a peace for Portugal, will she suffer that nation to assist us?
40499When a million of dollars had been expended, were the House to give them fifteen or twenty thousand dollars more?
40499When an exasperated militia went out, what were we to expect, but that the first man with a red skin whom they met would be shot?
40499When did their citizenship commence?
40499When it was laid before them, it was then contended that the House had a right to interfere in the Treaty, or why ask for it?
40499When you first cut a man''s throat, and thereafter call him a rascal, do you suppose that your accusation will affect the man''s reputation?
40499Whence arises, then, the opposition?
40499Where are they to be formed?
40499Where could be the pretence for any thing of this sort?
40499Where did these gentlemen find that definition of treason?
40499Where does the conciliating temper of Great Britain manifest itself?
40499Where has that power been placed?
40499Where is it?
40499Where is that will to be found?
40499Where is the breach of faith in Government, if it paid its whole debt with justice, blended with mercy?
40499Where is the denomination amongst us, that did not furnish opposers to our glorious Revolution?
40499Where is the difference between this case and that of indemnifying the losses at sea by the British?
40499Where is the justice of doing more for the assignee than he or his assignor expected could or would be done?
40499Where is the man among us who has the presumption and vanity to expect it?
40499Where is the propriety of branding a measure of this nature with epithets of infamy?
40499Where must they look in the United States for the sovereign power?
40499Where should they find that power in Great Britain?
40499Where then is it to be found?
40499Where then?
40499Where was the money to come from?
40499Where were the benefits of peace, if they were still to keep up our War Establishments?
40499Where, he asked, is the proof of this allegation?
40499Where, then, are the real profits anticipated?
40499Where, then, is the danger of expressing a general approbation?
40499Wherefore was it provided that no duty should be laid on exports?
40499Whether a like conciliatory conduct has not been observed by the advocates of manufactures?
40499Whether it was to be a fleeting vision, or to continue for ages?
40499Whether the public opinion was four or five times more unfavorable to such an administration?
40499Whether they shall be under the direction of Commissioners?
40499Which of these alternatives have they elected to do?
40499While the British had acted with so much liberality, did it become Americans to stick at the paltry sum of seventeen thousand dollars?
40499Who are benefited by the revolution?
40499Who are those that say to us, Germantown is the most proper spot that can be selected?
40499Who constituted this class of citizens?
40499Who did not believe that such an event was not only possible, but in some degree probable?
40499Who fought the battles of Georgia, under Clark and Twiggs?
40499Who fought the battles of New Jersey?
40499Who fought the battles of South Carolina, under the command of an honorable member now present?
40499Who had been the cause of the posts being so long kept from the United States?
40499Who had the most produce to sell?
40499Who has firmness enough to meet so foul a deed?
40499Who has not heard of the rebellion of_ Shays_, where a great deal of property was destroyed?
40499Who have fought the Indians so often with success, under Generals Wilkinson, Scott, Sevier, and others?
40499Who marched in 1776 under General Rutherford, through the Cherokee nation, laid waste their country, and forced them to peace?
40499Who shall declare what is the law, when the learned gentlemen of the bar are so directly opposed to each other?
40499Who suffers by this use of our authority?
40499Who were the purchasers?
40499Who were to be the losers, under these circumstances?
40499Who will accuse me of wandering out of the subject?
40499Who will hereafter admit an excise officer into his house, if that house may, with impunity, be burned about his ears?
40499Who will say that I exaggerate the tendencies of our measures?
40499Who will suffer most?
40499Who will trace these inferences, and pretend that we may have no share, according to the argument, in the Treaty- making power?
40499Who, under mere motives of friendship, would have done so?
40499Why a reference?
40499Why all this particular deviation from the common line of business to pass random votes of censure?
40499Why are they called upon to say, yea or nay, if they are obliged to say yea?
40499Why borrow money?
40499Why did the United States contract with the State, if she had no right?
40499Why did they not leave that, which they call God''s work, to be managed by himself?
40499Why do n''t you indemnify British depredations out of the British property that is within your grasp?"
40499Why is it necessary to fix upon Philadelphia for ten years?
40499Why is this penalty imposed on the United States?
40499Why lay a duty on foreign nails, when they can not rival you if you make them as good and as cheap?
40499Why leave a phantom of discretion, an unreal mockery of power, in the hands of the Legislature?
40499Why leave it only to be implied?
40499Why not also fix the principles of Government?
40499Why not choose the Speaker of this House?
40499Why not come forward, and demand of us the power of Legislation, and say, give us up your privileges, and we will govern you?
40499Why not protect this property as well?
40499Why not tell them at once, and in plain English, you must renounce your titles before you can have the privileges of an American citizen?
40499Why not?
40499Why shall we liquidate a debt which is established upon a complete and final settlement?
40499Why should a man take a dangerous and a doubtful path, when a safe one presents itself?
40499Why should we interfere with the concerns of our sister States who have not yet joined the new Government?
40499Why so little jealousy of the Executive Department, separated by the constitution with so much care from us?
40499Why so?
40499Why then provide for it a second time?
40499Why then should we interfere in the business?
40499Why this harsh language?
40499Why use so hackneyed a word?
40499Why was the call delayed till the session was within a few weeks of its termination?
40499Why was the subject mentioned?
40499Why were the resolutions brought before the House?
40499Why were these rights ever maintained and so scrupulously attended to by the people of those countries?
40499Why were we afraid to intrust the PRESIDENT with the power of raising ten thousand men?
40499Why were you so long in presenting your petition?
40499Why will these people, then, make use of arguments to induce the slave to turn his hand against his master?
40499Why, especially, he asked, should they give rise to invidious comparisons between themselves and the other branch?
40499Why, let me ask gentlemen, shall we commit an infraction of the constitution for fear the Senate or President should not comply with its directions?
40499Why, only that this was his opinion; but is that authority here?
40499Why, said Mr. L., communicate the instructions to the Ministers?
40499Why, said Mr. S., will not the Eastern members indulge us in this trifle?
40499Why, then fix the price as if the whole Army was to be kept there?
40499Why, then, are we called upon to propose amendments subversive of the principles of the constitution, which were never desired?
40499Why, then, call for them?
40499Why, then, did he suffer the bill to pass the committee in silence?
40499Why, then, embarrass themselves by making a larger appropriation than was necessary?
40499Why, then, expend so much precious time unnecessarily?
40499Why, then, hazard words that infer it?
40499Why, then, is a period of ten years to expire, previous to going there?
40499Why, then, make this rant about the British?
40499Why, then, shall we be told that the negative is the safe side?
40499Why, then, should such particular attention be paid to them, for bringing forward a business of questionable policy?
40499Why, then, should the House search for a meaning, to make the constitution inconsistent with itself, when a more rational one is at hand?
40499Why, then, will gentlemen advocate a doctrine so obnoxious to the principles of the constitution, when a more favorable construction is at hand?
40499Why, therefore, all this extraneous argument about a point of so easy decision?
40499Why_ firmness_?
40499Will Virginia set all her negroes free?
40499Will a duty of ten dollars diminish the importation?
40499Will any one answer by a sneer, that all this is idle preaching?
40499Will any one deny that we are bound-- and I would hope to good purpose-- by the most solemn sanctions of duty for the vote we give?
40499Will gentlemen say it is"We the people"in this case?
40499Will gentlemen then say, that to gratify a thoughtless regard for economy, they will risk the most invaluable part of the Government?
40499Will gentlemen, said he, blast this prospect by rejecting the bill?
40499Will gentlemen, then, comply with the one, and neglect the other?
40499Will he live in a more expensive style than the former Presidents of Congress, or will he live nearly in the same?
40499Will he not feel some dread that a change of system will reverse the scene?
40499Will he submit, after having gained his point at the expense of property and the loss of constitution, to have those sentiments established?
40499Will it be said that we are unable to do it?
40499Will it be whispered that the Treaty has made me a new champion for the protection of the frontiers?
40499Will it materially affect the price of rice or tobacco?
40499Will it not alarm our fellow- citizens?
40499Will it not be subversive of every principle on which public contracts are founded?
40499Will it not give them just cause of alarm?
40499Will it not have probably a contrary effect, and be the means of increasing the evil tenfold more than it exists at present?
40499Will it restore value to the evidences of that debt held by our creditors?
40499Will not gentlemen weigh well that vote, that may possibly increase the number of mourning widows and helpless orphans?
40499Will not precluding them look like a wish to smother all further inquiry into the matter?
40499Will not the administration of public affairs be conducted in future by representatives as good as ourselves?
40499Will not their traders continue their old acquaintanceship with them in spite of us?
40499Will not these people who suffered by the Tories in the last war come next, with open mouths, and demand indemnity?
40499Will she make her countervail oppressive and unjust?
40499Will she not expect that we shall resort to more violent measures-- such as reprisal, sequestration, or stopping of intercourse?
40499Will such a scheme increase it?
40499Will the Senate refuse to make an acknowledgment of that kind?
40499Will the strength and riches of the country be to the north or to the south of the Susquehanna?
40499Will the tendency to Indian hostilities be contrasted by any one?
40499Will the treatment be better than usual?
40499Will they be reported in such a form even?
40499Will they contribute any thing by consuming imported spirits?
40499Will they do it against the State of North Carolina?
40499Will they expose themselves to be preyed upon by these men?
40499Will they give up the money they cost them, and to whom?
40499Will they have less wisdom or virtue, to discover and pursue the good of their fellow- citizens than we have?
40499Will they make the representation of the several States the rule by which it shall be apportioned?
40499Will they not have to pay taxes from the time they settle amongst us?
40499Will they not say, that they have been deceived by the convention that framed the constitution?
40499Will they rack- rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate?
40499Will they refuse to sell us their manufactures?
40499Will they submit to an excise?
40499Will they tamely submit to be robbed of their property, when they lose all hope of aid or protection from the Government?
40499Will this prevent an increase of the public debt?
40499Will this reconcile the minds of our people to the General Government?
40499Will you adopt a charge against him, which is in its nature an imputation that however lightly and wickedly made, will implicate perhaps innocent men?
40499Will you gain by this contest?
40499Will you restrain him from having access to the members out of doors?
40499Will you return to every other person exporting dutied goods the money he has paid, and will you refuse the poor fisherman?
40499Will you shelter yourself under the plea of necessity?
40499Will you then raise a force to drive them off?
40499Will you, he observed, permit, nay, invite him, whom you arraign at the bar of this House, to be a public accuser?
40499With respect to the more absolute government of France, where has this power been lodged?
40499With what degree of consistency can the House be called on for a vote if, as some members contend, they can not have an opinion?
40499Woodfall, a celebrated printer, took down debates from memory: could we prevent this being done here?
40499Work for a living?
40499Would Congress have had the power to naturalize, if it had not been expressly given?
40499Would any body say that French liberty was better secured by naming a harbor_ Havre de Marat_?
40499Would any jury in this country say, that the matter of fact and the principles of law were not in favor of the petition?
40499Would any legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment, and let them stand so connected?
40499Would any man call this a communication from the Executive?
40499Would any man risk the feelings and character of his friend by an attempt to force a vote of thanks by a bare majority through the House?
40499Would any man say that the sole object of self- created societies has been the publication of political doctrines?
40499Would any one doubt that Congress may lend money, that they may buy their debt in the market, or redeem their captives from Algiers?
40499Would any plain man suppose that this bill had any thing to do with trade?
40499Would arguments of this kind satisfy our constituents, if they should find themselves suddenly plunged into an expensive and ruinous war?
40499Would even the citizens of the other States, which did not possess this property, desire to have all the slaves let loose upon them?
40499Would gentlemen narrow the operation of the constitution in this manner, and render it impossible to be executed?
40499Would he have pledged his honor, his reputation, had he been interested?
40499Would he not, though absent, have acquired, according to the petitioner''s own positions, a right of citizenship?
40499Would it add to his fame to be called after the petty and insignificant princes of Europe?
40499Would it be proper to give an approbation that can not be appropriate, and that has no definite meaning?
40499Would it be prudent to trust a foreigner, perhaps a rival, if not an enemy, with your supply of what has emphatically been called the sinews of war?
40499Would it have been best to have traded with them upon sufferance, and so to have maintained a precarious kind of commerce?
40499Would it not expose us to exorbitant demands, and often a refusal?
40499Would not Congress have been in the same situation as before the signing of the provisional articles?
40499Would not a Treaty made under it be clearly the law of England?
40499Would not such a step be injurious even to the slaves themselves?
40499Would not the end of impeachment be defeated by this means?
40499Would not the measures have been reprobated with one voice, and the Treaty considered as a nullity?
40499Would our foreign creditors believe we were scrupulously fulfilling our engagements with them?
40499Would styling him His Serene Highness, His Grace, or Mightiness, add one tittle to the solid properties he possessed?
40499Would the citizens of that country tamely suffer their property to be torn from them?
40499Would the makers of shoes be content to go there and retail them?
40499Would they not say, a vote of thanks has been rejected?
40499Would twelve of this House, or would any jury in the country say that the war continued longer than hostilities?
40499Yes, said he, we have still a constitution, but where is it to be found?
40499Yet are they not thought to be justified by national policy?
40499You declare yourself not guilty?
40499_ Executive Departments._--Resolution respecting, 85; debate thereon, 85; how many departments shall be established?
40499_ Treasury Department._--Debate, 90; shall this important department be in the hands of a single officer or in a Board of Commissioners?
40499_ ad valorem_, paid, as it were, in an exclusive manner, by the State of Massachusetts, be equal?
40499a pretence to cover their ambition?
40499and did we assure ourselves of the full execution of the law?
40499and if we make them such grants every year, do we not in fact become tributary to them?
40499and that the hope of the justice we now ask for has delayed the sale of all the rest, to satisfy his creditors-- his Southern creditors?
40499and was not the member from Virginia( Mr. MADISON) of this opinion, as I have before stated?
40499and was not this merely because the Indians were unable to pay for themselves?
40499and whether, if they are not, it is expedient for them to exercise this discretion at this time?
40499and would not all acts of Parliament, prior and repugnant to it, be repealed by it?
40499and, had not his colleague( Mr. LIVINGSTON) quoted the secret Journals of the House?
40499duty, with freight and shipping charges, be sufficient encouragement?
40499if not, what proportion?"
40499interest should be paid on it, 196; if the Government is one party and the individual the other, who is the judge?
40499on his capital; and that capital tenfold?
40499on his capital?
40499or the plundering of the high seas legalized under the name of privateering?
40499or to whom?
40499or using such harsh expressions as have issued like a torrent from a gentleman on the other side of the House?
40499or whether we shall tamely supplicate for justice, and suffer the most effectual means of compulsion to elude our grasp?
40499or will posterity have a more favorable opinion of the original, because it has been amended by distinct acts?
40499that Mr. Rutledge has prevented executions from taking the Georgia estate by his personal interference?
40499that all the estates in Rhode Island and New Jersey are sold?
40499then is it wrong to express their confidence?
40499what can the committee report?
40499what is money, when put in competition with the lives of our friends and brethren?
40499what would be gained by it?
40499whether repugnance to a compliance with such demands was not created by such means?
40499why adopted?
40499would not carry away slaves at that time in possession of Americans?
47289Did you give this advice to your American correspondents, upon the supposition that America would acquiesce in the Orders in Council? 47289 For what reason?
47289Have you lately written to your correspondents in America respecting shipments of American produce to this country? 47289 If the American embargo in general were taken off, and the Orders in Council to be continued, would his trade in that case revive?
47289In what degree would it affect the dealers in those commodities brought to this country, as to their remittances to this country? 47289 In what manner?
47289Is she?
47289To what effect have you so written? 47289 Washington, sir, was not a lawyer, and who can wonder that his fair mind was alarmed by such a solemn declaration?
47289What is the reason that the Orders in Council prevent the witness sending our cotton goods in ships in ballast? 47289 Who can be so cruel as to refuse him this favor?"
47289Why not? 47289 Would the Orders in Council have any other effect as to discouraging the trade?
47289& c.& c. If a parcel of kegs, in those days, alarmed them so much, what will Fulton''s torpedoes do now?
47289100; why then should they not be manned?
47289128; is this House to have no influence on the conduct of the Executive?
47289138; is this House sitting as a body to remunerate those who violated the laws?
47289138; the subject of contribution considered, 139; let the inquiry be made, 139; what good purpose can it answer?
47289146; have not the British subjects been liberated?
47289146; what connection exists between the statements that have been made and the merits of the case?
47289146; what has been the situation of Great Britain to Spain?
47289148; what influence was his opinion to have?
47289149; has Congress a right in order to determine the title to landed property, to refer it to any tribunal whatever?
47289157; this bill is a concession to Great Britain and is not a hostility to France, 157; what injuries has France done?
47289172; letter of Mr. Jackson, 172; what does it amount to?
47289189; not the true principle, 189; what principles are more specifically asserted by Great Britain?
47289194; if such were the circumstances, does not the occasion require that the American Government take a firm and decided stand?
47289196; did he know that Mr. Erskine had not full power?
47289196; it was not his duty to know that he had not full powers?
47289201; what are the expressions in which it is conveyed?
47289218; is the experiment worthy to be made?
47289256; what is the nature and import of this proclamation?
47289262; is the proclamation an authorized measure of war and legislation?
47289262; what, then, is the true construction of the treaties of St. Ildefonso and of April, 1803?
47289281; what is a corporation such as the bill contemplates?
47289282; the States have the exclusive power to regulate contracts, 282; what participation has this bank in the collection of the revenue?
4728928; what are our preparations?
4728928; what is the state of the treasury?
4728928; what plans are offered for replenishing it?
47289294; what did mechanics here say relative to granting this charter?
4728929; consequences of non- intercourse under such circumstances, 30; who has been the first aggressor?
4728929; if we are to have war, with whom is it to be prosecuted?
4728929; under these circumstances what is the course that policy would dictate to this country to pursue?
472892d, is it expedient?
47289354; as to France, what are the edicts revoked, and how?
47289359; are we prepared for those conditions?
47289368; are we bound by any faithful performance had on the part of France?
47289368; have either France or Great Britain complied with the condition?
47289369; is this an honest neutrality to revive the restrictive system against Great Britain, while the French decrees are still in force?
47289369; must this sacrifice be made in order to bolster up the President''s proclamation so prematurely issued?
47289369; the present measure is intended as a propitiatory sacrifice to conciliate Napoleon, 369; is it calculated to produce this effect?
47289372; under the act of May, 1810, 372; what is its character and the obligations arising under it?
47289373; the occurrence of the fact of revocation involves the propriety of the proclamation, 373; has the fact occurred?
47289388; has a similar temper and disposition been shown to Great Britain as to France, in the interpretation of the Cadore letter?
47289407; who are most interested in commerce; the growers of the articles, or the factors, or freighters employed in their exchange?
47289434; it would be necessary to know the ulterior views of the committee, 434; for what purpose are these troops wanted?
47289448; gentlemen will not say, we have not a good cause for war, but insist that it is our duty to define it, 448; what do they mean by this?
47289475; in such statutes there are always exceptions, 475; what would be the course of an individual?
47289600; where is your commerce to protect?
47289603; what were the preparations for the Revolutionary war?
47289624; is there probability of obtaining a recognition of this principle by a continuance of the war?
47289636; were ever a body of men so abandoned in the hour of need as the American Cabinet by Bonaparte?
47289698; what did an elevated fitness of character and conduct require of this nation when war was declared?
472896; it was a farce, 6; ample time had been given for her to make other arrangements, 6; what accounts have we from there?
4728970; what are the reasons why the embargo has not come fully up to the expectations of its supporters?
4728970; yet it has been particularly serviceable in many instances?
4728975 Blind Alice; A Tale for Good Children, 38 Ellen Leslie; or, The Reward of Self- Control, 38 Florence Arnott; or, Is She Generous?
4728984; it is not expedient to adopt the second resolution, 84; what will be the effect of the embargo, if continued, as respects ourselves?
47289A people presenting such an aspect, what have they to expect abroad?
47289A possession_ by force_?
47289A serious invasion?
47289Accompanied with this most consequential inquiry:"Is not this a new State to be admitted?
47289After the declaration of war, had they any disposition to assail us?
47289After the declaration of war, what has been the conduct of the Executive?
47289Again, I ask, were the principles of the embargo submission in 1774-''5-''6?
47289Again, sir, I would ask the advocates of the doctrine I am reprobating, when will it be proper to show the folly and ruinous consequences of the war?
47289Again, sir, has the gentleman no feeling for the sufferings, no ear for the groans of our suffering seamen?
47289Again, what was the effect of the non- intercourse in 1809 upon our Treasury?
47289Against France?
47289Against whom were these charges brought?
47289Against whom?
47289All the evasions of the embargo have been made with a view to that supply; enforce it, and from whence will they procure the article of lumber?
47289Am I not, then, Mr. Speaker, authorized to say, that the condition of the law of May, 1810, has not been complied with?
47289Am I then required to vote for a measure of this kind?
47289Am I to conclude that they are really Americans in principle?
47289An ambitious General might corrupt his army, and seize the Capitol-- but will an Admiral reduce us to subjection by bringing his ships up the Potomac?
47289And I would ask whether either of these events had happened when this corps of militia were ordered out?
47289And about what?
47289And are gentlemen considering the restoration of the seamen taken from the Chesapeake as a reason why we should continue the interdict?
47289And are gentlemen prepared to obey?
47289And are we not in the act of yielding obedience?
47289And are we prepared to pronounce so heavy a denunciation on our predecessors, on ourselves, and the other great Departments of our Government?
47289And are we so sunk in the estimation of the mighty conqueror, that he thinks it necessary and proper to use this as his official language towards us?
47289And are we, he asked, to be deprived of it when we come to this House-- when we enter this temple of liberty?
47289And are we, under such circumstances, to renew negotiation by extra missions?
47289And are you now about again to jeopardize the peace of this nation, without any cause whatever?
47289And are you ready to repeal the embargo under such a threat as this?
47289And as to excuse, will it be said that there is nothing of the sort in this case?
47289And by whom was it opposed?
47289And by whom were they made?
47289And could any thing be gathered from any thing they had ever written or said, to induce a belief that this Government had not acted with sincerity?
47289And did this state of prosperity exist at a time when your commerce was protected by vessels of war?
47289And do I enjoy my right of walking the street by making myself a prisoner?
47289And do gentlemen believe Great Britain is willing to sacrifice all these considerations to a refusal to do you justice?
47289And does she not remain sole mistress?
47289And for whom?
47289And from what premises is such a conclusion drawn?
47289And have we adopted the monkish plan of scourging ourselves for the sins of others?
47289And have we no means of doing this?
47289And here, Mr. Speaker, let me ask what other class of men in our society can you find who would have acted thus nobly?
47289And how do I prove it?
47289And how has it been regarded by the belligerents?
47289And how is this proved to be a remedy?
47289And how was it to be effected?
47289And how would this bill, Mr. Q. asked, less violate the constitution than such an act would have done?
47289And how, sir, is it attempted to rebut this fact?
47289And if it did, and this power was offensive, why was it not stricken out when the amendment was made?
47289And if it has, is it proper so to decide it?
47289And if not greater, has not an allowance been made for the capture of some of our ships, or, in other words, for the building of new ones?
47289And if they be, sir, what inducement can possibly prevent unanimity on the present occasion?
47289And if they do not intend thus to rely, in what possible way could it serve that Government thus darkly to insinuate it?
47289And in comparing this bill with those declarations, will it be possible to conceive that we are consistent?
47289And in fact does it not so demand in many instances?
47289And is it come to this?
47289And is it not better to submit to some inconveniences, eventually to insure a free trade?
47289And is not a man thereby to be deprived of property without due process of law?
47289And is not here an express authority?"
47289And is the President to judge from the thanks of the House that he has done his duty?
47289And is this bill a pioneer to the new swarms of"continental"locusts?
47289And it may be fairly asked here, what measures Great Britain has taken to prevent her officers from impressing our seamen?
47289And lastly, will the force be an economical one?
47289And may we not suppose that these proud Spaniards, as they are called, may have feelings of a like nature?
47289And must this sacrifice be made in order to bolster up the President''s proclamation so prematurely issued?
47289And now, let me ask, whether we are prepared for these conditions?
47289And on the question, Shall this bill pass?
47289And on the question,"Shall the bill pass?"
47289And on the question,"Shall this bill pass?"
47289And on what, sir, does this circulation rest?
47289And pray, Mr. Speaker, what has Mr. Foster been sent for?
47289And shall we be told about the profitable commerce with Great Britain?
47289And shall we disparage our ancestors?--shall we bastardize ourselves by placing them even below the brigands of St. Domingo?
47289And shall we now refuse admission to the vessels of France?
47289And surely he will not contend that this advance of premium was caused by the embargo?
47289And that from mere obstinacy-- an obstinacy not encouraged by the least glimmering of hope?
47289And that too, sir, at an expense to their own country so enormous in amount?
47289And thus situated, what are the projects offered for replenishing the public coffers in future?
47289And we may triumphantly ask, where is the nation or people that enjoy these with more freedom and safety than the American people?
47289And were not French ships of war then, and have they not since been riding quietly at Annapolis, Norfolk, and elsewhere?
47289And what advantage do they derive from it?
47289And what are those objects?
47289And what do we?
47289And what do we?
47289And what does he claim?
47289And what does this committee do?
47289And what has this sarcastic Minister of Great Britain given us in exchange?
47289And what have we done in return?
47289And what have we to propose, according to the principles of reprisal, to obtain the restoration?
47289And what injury has the Emperor of Russia done to him?
47289And what is it now?
47289And what is its character?
47289And what is our opinion?
47289And what is the answer to all this out of doors?
47289And what is the argument by which this position is maintained?
47289And what is the language of George the Third, when our Minister presents to his consideration the embargo laws?
47289And what is the relation in which you stand to France?
47289And what is to justify this measure of imposing silence?
47289And what more, sir, could have been asked of us, required, or granted, than is contained in these offers?
47289And what real benefit has resulted from it to the Government?
47289And what says Mr. Jackson in reply?
47289And what security have we that she will not do so?
47289And what substitute have we for this when it shall be destroyed?
47289And what was the fact in regard to them?
47289And what would you think of one individual who had thus conducted to another, and should then retreat?
47289And what, Mr. Speaker, is now proposed for the future-- what is to retrieve our affairs-- on what are our hopes to rest?
47289And what, sir, are you doing?
47289And what, sir, was the conduct of the opposition in the British House of Commons, when their King and country were insulted by a foreign Minister?
47289And when war came, what said the people?
47289And where are these insults, these injuries, these vital attempts of the enemy to be found?
47289And where do you send him?
47289And whether we are prepared to go to war for them?
47289And while these measures were going on, could Congress, by staying here constantly, add to the number of men, or expedite the loan?
47289And who is prepared to say that American seamen shall be surrendered the victims to the British principle of impressment?
47289And who would pay it?
47289And whose money, asked Mr. R., is this?
47289And why did they not?
47289And why draw that into the debate on the impressment of American citizens from American vessels?
47289And why should this bank be dissolved?
47289And why should this clamor be raised on the question whether you will or will not make a formal renunciation of the old articles of political faith?
47289And why should we make a sort of hotch- potch of two subjects, on which we do not think alike, for the purpose of getting us all united against both?
47289And why was not a provision inserted to prevent foreigners from purchasing additional stock?
47289And why?
47289And will she be insensible to the efforts of our little Navy?
47289And will you plunge yourselves in war, because you have passed a foolish and ruinous law, and are ashamed to repeal it?
47289And will you refuse it?
47289And with a standing army, what security for our liberties?"
47289And would gentlemen favor this French population at the expense of their own interests and rights?
47289And would he advise the nation to pursue a course disgraceful, and to which he would not expose himself?
47289And would not the doing this place us in precisely the same situation as we were in before the Revolution?
47289And would these persons believe that they were going on an unlawful expedition?
47289And yet, how does this differ from invading Canada, for the purpose of defending our maritime rights?
47289And yet, sir, who ever heard of two nations_ going to war_ about a single case of capture, though admitted not to be justified by the laws?
47289And, I ask, is this resistance?
47289And, I ask, sir, why, then, admit the vessels of England standing in the same relation to us?
47289And, I wish to know, sir, what control we have over the Bank of the United States?
47289And, after that, is it proposed that we shall continue the measure of hostility when the cause alone which led to it is completely done away?
47289And, are we to endeavor to negotiate, as neutrals, with France, upon this ground, with any reasonable prospect of success?
47289And, doing that, how could you expect an amicable result?
47289And, is this course of policy now to be condemned, and regrets entered up that we have not been at war years ago?
47289And, said Mr. O., shall the Government be less willing to discharge its just debts than an honest individual?
47289And, shall I be charged with deserting the standard of the people, while I am treading in the footsteps of the great Father of his Country?
47289And, sir, what does this bank or its branches when resort is had to it?
47289And, sir, what is the mighty boon which these brave and indigent tars ask from you?
47289And, sir, what is this principle?
47289And, sir, what was our"restrictive"system?
47289And, sir, when these messengers of hell are sent here shall we not look at them?
47289And, upon whom does the loss fall?
47289Are gentlemen aware how extensive is the province of master and apprentice?
47289Are gentlemen ready to injure their country, weaken our Federal Union, the sheet- anchor of our political safety, to reach their political opponents?
47289Are gentlemen serious?
47289Are gentlemen willing to submit to this?
47289Are gentlemen, possessing the feelings of Americans, prepared to submit to such degradation?
47289Are new States desired?
47289Are not these cases equally strong?
47289Are not these searches and seizures, without warrant, on the mere suspicion of a collector, unreasonable searches and seizures?
47289Are our Ocean rights there?
47289Are the bounty lands to be given in Canada?
47289Are the countries of the Baltic and Caspian Seas no longer cultivated?
47289Are the extravagant prices of articles of the first necessity, superadded to their former embarrassments, to operate as a bounty on their trade?
47289Are the gentlemen from Georgia and Kentucky the only Senators who have had their feelings wounded by the conduct of the press upon this subject?
47289Are the merchants the guardians of the public honor?
47289Are the merchants to be told we will protect their commerce?
47289Are the old chimerical notions of_ starving_ the enemy, yet floating in the brains of gentlemen?
47289Are the orders and decrees altered?
47289Are the people of this country suspected of an intention to abandon their rights or their independence?
47289Are the wishes of this nation to be unattended to?
47289Are these apprehensions founded in reason, or are they the chimeras of a fervid and perturbed imagination?
47289Are these blessings not worth preserving?
47289Are these not sufficient for the recruiting service?
47289Are these savings not worth notice?
47289Are these the blockades which are intended?
47289Are they likely to happen?
47289Are they not murderers?
47289Are they prepared to say the embargo shall be raised, while our commerce is subjected to this kind of depredation?
47289Are they reduced to that situation, that they will become the vassals of a foreign power-- for what?
47289Are they to be held as conquered territories?
47289Are they to be scourged out of us by the birch of the unfledged political pedagogues of the day?
47289Are they unfit for the East India trade?
47289Are we bound to adopt this measure on account of the faith of Government being pledged to France by the law of May last?
47289Are we guilty because we resist the British scalping knife?
47289Are we in France?
47289Are we not aware, sir, of the immense sums now invested and actively employed in the different manufactories distributed over our extensive country?
47289Are we not officially notified that the French leeward islands are declared by proclamation in a state of blockade?
47289Are we prepared to ingraft these arbitrary principles into our constitution, and cherish them when practised in so arbitrary a manner?
47289Are we ready to submit to be taxed by Great Britain and France, as if we were their colonies?
47289Are we sure the State banks can or will do this?
47289Are we to adhere to the embargo forever, sir?
47289Are we to renew negotiation, then, when every circumstance manifests that it would be useless?
47289Are we to understand that the_ salus populi_ shall rule without control?
47289Are we, gentlemen,( said Mr. R.,) to have a Speaker of the House of Representatives without any election?
47289Are you prepared to see a foreign power seize what belongs to us?
47289Are you provided with means to annoy the enemy, or to defend yourselves?
47289Are you to leave them unprotected, or will you draw the sword in their behalf?
47289Are you to spend four or five millions of dollars, in addition to your present extraordinary expenditures, to protect commerce?
47289Are your exposed towns fortified and garrisoned?
47289Are your seamen safe from impressment?
47289Arm your merchantmen, as has been proposed, send them out, and you have war directly?
47289As his Minister said to the King of Epirus,"may we not as well take our bottle of wine before as after this exploit?"
47289As it does now, through the operation of your embargo, on the planter, on the farmer, on the mechanic, on the day- laborer?
47289As the proper authority, he thrust it from him as unworthy the coffers of his country; and did not his doing so meet general approbation?
47289As to France, sir, what were the edicts to be revoked, and how revoked?
47289As to preparation at home, which is the only preparation contemplated to make, what or whom is it against?
47289As to respect abroad, what course can be more certain to insure it?
47289As to the objection which had been offered to receiving the statement of their commanders, what were gentlemen afraid of?
47289As to the opportunity which the answers afforded for debate, could any one say that sufficient latitude had not been taken in debate?
47289At the very moment, said Mr. B., that we know that the blacks of St. Domingo are building vessels, shall we dispose of Our public armed vessels?
47289Aware of the impropriety of his deciding, he tells you-- what?
47289Aye, sir-- and is that true?
47289Because he is not a gentleman, shall we assert a falsehood?
47289Because we can not guard against every possible danger, shall we provide against none?
47289Because we can not, are we to succumb to others?
47289Begin this system of abstract legislation, and where are you to stop?
47289Being questioned if Henry had mentioned the names of any person with whom he had conferred?
47289But I am asked, how will you contend with a maritime nation, without a navy?
47289But I may ask, what on the ocean did we enjoy but by the sufferance of Great Britain?
47289But I will suppose that you could export without interruption; would the whole of the exportable produce pay for the war during the continuance of it?
47289But are not your privateers as much a part of the naval force of the nation as your ships of war?
47289But are we unreasonable in expecting, before we give up the old opinion, to hear some argument in favor of the new one?
47289But by whom had they been suppressed when they ran counter to the interests of his country?
47289But can any man imagine that, if we invade the British colonies, the war will be there?
47289But did an atom of it flow in from the operation of the embargo?
47289But does that justify this resolution?
47289But gentlemen were desirous now to fix the number of souls which should entitle to a Representative-- and why?
47289But has he shown that it is necessary in order to make a preliminary arrangement similar to that entered into?
47289But have the people of Spain acquiesced?
47289But have they shown, by a train of argument, that their overthrow was, in any degree, ascribable to their maritime greatness?
47289But how are we to cause these rights to be respected?
47289But how can this be done?
47289But how has this plea been supported?
47289But how is this protection to be afforded?
47289But how was it received by the American Cabinet?
47289But how, Mr. Speaker, are we to cause our rights to be respected?
47289But if it were not, where is the impropriety of an inquiry?
47289But in this instance is the territory vacant-- or uninhabited-- or abandoned by its proprietors?
47289But is it possible that an intolerant spirit of party has prepared us for this?
47289But is it true that according to the usages of nations this is a novel system, or one now, for the first time, put in use by the British?
47289But is that the case in relation to the Executive, on whose future dispositions rest the best interests of this nation?
47289But is war the true remedy?
47289But of what value would these provinces be to us, if they could be easily acquired?
47289But on whose side has this intrigue been?
47289But receiving all the sanctions of a law, and as such containing a rule of conduct in certain specified cases, what was the Executive to do?
47289But shall we therefore abandon the ocean, yield our birthright, our goodly heritage, without a struggle?
47289But should he, on great questions, be denied the privilege of speaking?
47289But should we have been prepared by winter, the time to which gentlemen wished to have deferred the declaration of war?
47289But some gentlemen affect a sympathy for the Canadians-- why, say they, will you make war on them?
47289But suppose they do not; suppose they fail, and are captured in the attempt; what is that to us?
47289But the question recurs, needful for what?
47289But to what does this doctrine lead?
47289But was there that fatal necessity; that command from Jove,"Ye fates fulfil it, and ye powers approve,"to erect corporations?
47289But we are told that the enterprising merchant is deprived of an opportunity-- of what?
47289But we must inquire, what is a just and necessary war?
47289But were there not other decrees?
47289But what are the reasons why it has not fully come up to the expectations of its supporters, as a measure of coercion?
47289But what blow are you prepared to strike?
47289But what can we do with four seventy- fours?
47289But what does the correspondence referred to prove?
47289But what has_ Revolutionary_ Spain done?
47289But what have the British Government done on the subject?
47289But what is here proposed?
47289But what is the fact?
47289But what is the law of nature and the dictate of wisdom, on this subject?
47289But what is the nature of the defence which one of our large States may be supposed interested to obtain from the General Government?
47289But what is the principle in contest between the two Governments?
47289But what is their situation at present?
47289But what is this law as modified by the practice of nations?
47289But what obliges Congress to give credit at all?
47289But what was left, as to her, for the surrender or repeal of which she had any anxiety?
47289But what was the style in which gentlemen spoke at our last summer session, when the subject of approbation was then before us?
47289But what will the merchants of Salem, and Boston, and New York, and Philadelphia, and Baltimore, the men of Marblehead and Cape Cod, say to this?
47289But what, said Mr. C, has been the history of claims for four or five years past?
47289But what, sir, is the price we have at length paid for the repeal?
47289But whence, Mr. Chairman, proceeds this system of slander and abuse?
47289But where is the difference between that and suffering yourself to be controlled by the arbitrary act of another nation?
47289But while we are searching for the means of annoying the commerce of Britain, does it become us to overlook at this moment the condition of our own?
47289But who was ever the friend of non- intercourse?
47289But why is it necessary to know, on this occasion, whether the President did call for these powers or not?
47289But why is it to be continued?
47289But why this argument of despair?
47289But why this change?
47289But why, sir, are the injuries these nations have done contrasted, and those of the one made an apology for those of the other?
47289But why, sir, should this House give an expression of approbation of the President?
47289But will you trust your funds with an institution thus precarious, and whose solidity is distrusted even by its best friends?
47289But"where, and what was this execrable shape-- if shape it may be called, which shape has none?"
47289But, I ask, sir, if the State Governments do not possess this gigantic power?
47289But, I would ask the gentleman from Connecticut, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania, also, if this be one of their abstract propositions?
47289But, Is it necessary that a resolution containing it should be passed by this House?
47289But, Mr. President, what is the real cause of those failures?
47289But, Mr. Speaker, what was the fact?
47289But, Mr. Speaker, wherefore change the term of enlistment, from five years, or during the war, to one year?
47289But, are not the measures which have been adopted, submission?
47289But, decide it either way, how is trading as far as we have ability, made less abject than not trading at all?
47289But, for these things, we must stipulate an equivalent; and what can that be, but to unite in striking England from the list of independent nations?
47289But, for what purpose are you to send them out?
47289But, is it in this nation, and at this time, that it can be supposed that the profits of commerce are confined to the merchant?
47289But, it seems we have changed all this-- we have perverted the whole course of procedure-- and why?
47289But, it would be well to inquire, on what principle the belligerents pretend to justify these commercial restrictions?
47289But, on the other hand, should we not be ready to act on that day, is it not pledging ourselves that we will then act, whether we are ready or not?
47289But, on the second head, can your law be executed?
47289But, said Mr. R., is time now so precious?
47289But, said he, for what purpose, I feel impelled to ask, are you going to build these vessels?
47289But, says the gentleman, will you take the child from the parent?
47289But, since that election, another has taken place for members of Congress; and how has that turned out?
47289But, sir, admit for a moment the bank may be formed to collect the revenue, ought it not to be exclusively used for that object?
47289But, sir, admit the gentleman''s statement; will a war with Great Britain increase the danger?
47289But, sir, can we quit this subject without looking more particularly at the consequences which result from this series of injuries?
47289But, sir, gentlemen may ask, where is the remedy?
47289But, sir, has this unparalleled enterprise, this gallant spirit, been carried on by a navy?
47289But, sir, how happens it that we still remain under the distresses occasioned by the belligerents?
47289But, sir, how have those orders at last been repealed?
47289But, sir, is it prudent to rely upon an institution that may refuse you assistance?
47289But, sir, let me ask what sort of possession?
47289But, sir, let me ask, whether the disposition to lend be not as necessary a means towards accomplishing a loan as the ability?
47289But, sir, let us admit the fact and the whole force of the argument, I ask whose is the fault?
47289But, sir, what has been the state of the country since the declaration of war?
47289But, sir, what is now the state of things?
47289But, suppose they had been manned in other ways, were not privateers as useful in annoying the enemy as public ships?
47289But, what are the principles more specifically asserted by Great Britain?
47289But, what best consults the honor of a Republican Government?
47289But, what have we done?
47289But, what is that to us?
47289But, what security did those ships afford?
47289But, what was it sent there for?
47289But, why, I pray you?
47289By Mary Howitt, 38 Who Shall be Greatest?
47289By a suitable instrument I reconvey or retrocede the estate called Louisiana to you as I now hold it, and as you held it; what passes to you?
47289By force?
47289By gentlemen who are for active offence?
47289By granting them a right which nature has already given to them?
47289By putting in force the non- importation law?
47289By showing a physical disability in the country to avail itself of this force?
47289By the law of''98, the President certainly could direct relative to the age and size of a recruit-- yet to whom did he apply?
47289By what ligament, on what basis, on what possible foundation, does it rest?
47289By what?
47289By whom is it so called?
47289By whom is this immense power wielded?
47289By whom, would you listen to them, are they most keenly felt?
47289By whom?
47289Can England complain of our giving credit to a man with whom her first Secretary of State and the Governor General of Canada correspond?
47289Can a violation of a solemn pledge confer an obligation which was only intended to be created on the complete fulfilment of that pledge?
47289Can an agreement arising from the exercise of this power, supersede the right of exercising the power expressly delegated by the constitution itself?
47289Can any man do this, and not realize that the destiny of the people inhabiting such a country is essentially maritime?
47289Can any man tell what would be the consequence of war, in these times?
47289Can any one doubt that our Cabinet meant that it should have this effect?
47289Can any submission be more palpable, more"abject, more disgraceful?"
47289Can any thing be more in direct subserviency to the views of the French Emperor?
47289Can any thing be more obviously at variance with the spirit of the constitution and the first principles of civil liberty?
47289Can any thing be more palpable than this?
47289Can arming our merchant vessels, by resisting the whole navy of Great Britain, oppose force to force?
47289Can it be any thing but the revolutions in Spain and Portugal?
47289Can it be because Bonaparte has said he loves the Americans?
47289Can it be conceived that all this could have been carried on, if General Miranda had not meant to conceal it from the Government?
47289Can it be necessary gravely to answer these assertions?
47289Can it then be said, that with treble the population, and in an offensive war, necessity requires the dangerous innovation?
47289Can one million of militia be overpowered by thirty thousand regulars?
47289Can such conduct be called American?
47289Can such men pretend that peace is their object?
47289Can that be true which gives the greatest violence to party animosity?
47289Can that be true which, when the whole physical force of the country is needed, withdraws half of that force?
47289Can that, then, be true in relation to war which would be reprobated in every other case?
47289Can the Legislature give me a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States, which I have sworn to support?
47289Can the President be as well acquainted with the qualifications and abilities of officers in the militia as the Governors of the States?
47289Can the fundamental principles of the constitution, rendering contracts sacred, be thus uprooted and destroyed?
47289Can there be any necessity for this?
47289Can they sell these lots, these brick houses, these canal shares?
47289Can they touch no nerve in which Britons feel?
47289Can they, or will they, prevent the march of an enemy''s forces through that territory into the United States?
47289Can this be a desirable state of things?
47289Can this be done?
47289Can this ever be an alternative?
47289Can this interdiction be defended on this ground?
47289Can we do too much for this man?
47289Can we wonder that it should be cherished by its master?
47289Can you expect system and order unless you pay for it?
47289Can you have economy when you go into market to bid for what you want?
47289Can you punish them for not doing it?
47289Can your law fail of producing more injury and loss to the United States, than benefit?
47289Contending themselves for the right of naturalization, can the British Government deny it to others?
47289Could America expect to starve this nation?
47289Could Congress transfer to him legislative power, and authorize him to declare of how many members this body should consist?
47289Could any man say that it was not proper that he should have it?
47289Could any man say what would take place between this day and the third of March?
47289Could it not demand prompt payment of the duties?
47289Could not a single foreign frigate enter almost any of our harbors now and batter down our towns?
47289Could not even a single gunboat sweep some of them?
47289Could not the Territory of Columbia have been governed without erecting a single corporation in it?
47289Could one be added to the catalogue?
47289Could seven millions of people obtain glory by precipitating themselves upon half a million, and trampling them into the dust?
47289Could that gentleman repose his head upon his pillow without returning thanks to God that he was descended from English parentage?
47289Could they have chosen a more appropriate phraseology?
47289Could this doctrine be asserted by any gentleman?
47289Did Venice owe her decline, or fall, to her navy?
47289Did a British gallery ever exhibit such a spectacle?
47289Did ever one Government exhibit towards any people a more bloody and relentless spirit of rancor?
47289Did he too oppose this proposition on the ground of resisting the belligerents or of making war with England?
47289Did it arrest the promulgation, or has it abrogated the Orders in Council-- those orders which have given birth to a new era in commerce?
47289Did it declare to how many Representatives each State should be entitled?
47289Did it enter into the conception of the people when its principles were discussed?
47289Did it follow that minor considerations should be placed out of view or yielded up entirely?
47289Did it not interdict all trade with France under the most severe and heavy penalties?
47289Did it prevent Mr. Jefferson from taking a war course?
47289Did it prevent the unmanly attack upon the Chesapeake?
47289Did it produce starvation in the West Indies?
47289Did not the honor, the character, the independence of the country require of us to go back to our original neutral ground?
47289Did not the late President, when he came into place, refuse to let such money come into the treasury in the case of the worthless Callender?
47289Did not this bill completely come up to their wishes?
47289Did our fathers either effect a change in her injurious policy or prevent a war by non- intercourse?
47289Did that make no difference?
47289Did the nation call it submission when it was enacted under General Washington?
47289Do gentlemen believe it to be true?
47289Do gentlemen consider harpooning a vessel to be like harpooning a whale, which has no men on board of it to take out the harpoon?
47289Do gentlemen mean an abject acquiescence to those iniquitous decrees and Orders in Council?
47289Do gentlemen of the"old school"undertake to say that the Father of their country submitted then to George III.?
47289Do gentlemen plead the necessity of the case?
47289Do gentlemen say that there is no insult in this?
47289Do gentlemen suppose that boats can approach without the most imminent danger?
47289Do not gentlemen perceive the tendency of this measure to involve us with the States upon delicate points?
47289Do the wrongs of this nation end with this outrage?
47289Do these gentlemen come forward and tell you that that the embargo is submission?
47289Do these two declarations hang together, sir?
47289Do they contend that the causes which rendered it necessary have been removed?
47289Do they mean that it should be relinquished to our former masters without a struggle?
47289Do they not bear a hostile aspect?
47289Do we doubt the inveteracy of the French hatred of the British navy when it has existed so many years?
47289Do we not pay an annual tribute to Algiers for liberty to navigate the sea safer from its corsairs?
47289Do we want plunder?
47289Do you intend again to stretch them on the rack, again to cover the country with sackcloth and ashes?
47289Do you make this declaration to the enemy at the outset?
47289Do you mean to submit?
47289Do you persevere in the conquest of Canada?
47289Do you see one gentleman, one solitary gentleman of one party, discriminated generally as a Federal, who does not vote for this measure throughout?
47289Do you yet contend that the object is to protect commerce?
47289Does France purchase your tobacco or cotton, which heretofore have found a market there?
47289Does a necessity exist superior to the laws?
47289Does a proffer of settlement, connected with such language, look like a disposition or an intention to conciliate?
47289Does an unprotected seacoast of two thousand miles afford her no opportunities of attacking us?
47289Does any gentlemen believe, even allowing the pressure of the embargo to be great upon her, that she can yield, that she can afford to yield?
47289Does any man believe it?
47289Does any man believe that this frontier traffic is not as beneficial to us as to our enemies?
47289Does any man doubt that the war is justly undertaken?
47289Does he believe he has all this time been deceiving the Legislature?
47289Does he discharge as he ought the duties of a friend, a brother in society?
47289Does he recollect the invasion of the Spaniards two years ago?
47289Does it comport with our honor and dignity to admit into our ports and harbors the very vessels destroying our commerce?
47289Does it fall within the power to pay the debts of the United States?
47289Does it follow, from that, that they are entitled to all the rights of hospitality that one nation could possibly show to another?
47289Does it follow, in all cases, that that which would have prevented the war in the first instance should terminate the war?
47289Does it not confine the legality of arming to resident citizens alone?
47289Does it not go, not only to the abandonment of the ocean, but to the seacoast also?
47289Does it not then result, inevitably, as the dictate of common prudence, that we should, as soon as possible, commence our naval preparations?
47289Does it, then, become the representatives of the nation to leave the nation at the mercy of a corporation?
47289Does not England naturalize foreigners?
47289Does not flour find a great proportion of its consumption on the continent?
47289Does not the constitution say, no laws shall be passed abrogating contracts?
47289Does not the industry of the country languish?
47289Does not the right to create a bank, which shall issue this representative of money, come within the same reason?
47289Does not this prove that so much danger existed on the ocean that it was next to impossible to pass without seizure and condemnation?
47289Does she not naturalize your citizens?
47289Does she produce them at home?
47289Does the bank affect the people locally?
47289Does the gentleman mean to assimilate a tribute exacted by Great Britain with that paid to Algiers?
47289Does the gentleman mean to excite our fears for the loss of our property?
47289Does the gentleman say that it was atrocious in 1798 to defend ourselves against the French?
47289Does the history of the past in our own, or any other country, warrant such an expectation?
47289Does the prospect of security there flatter us?
47289Does this prove a change?
47289Does this prove that the embargo was the cause of the change of the politics of the Maryland Legislature?
47289Does this, sir, comport with the principles of justice?
47289Does your flag float afterwards in honor?
47289Even if the price was as low as eight, or say seven dollars, wherefore should the soldier receive less than any other man?
47289First, has the United States a claim, either real or disputed, to this territory?
47289For I would ask, what are we to promise to ourselves from such a system as this; what will be the probable effects of it?
47289For a private, unassisted, insulated, unallied individual?
47289For any great boon that this Government has received from the hands of Great Britain?
47289For gallons will you spill torrents; or am I to understand that we shall have war without bloodshed?
47289For what have you given money to build fortifications?
47289For what purpose were protections given to American seamen?
47289For what purpose, sir, let me ask, have we adopted the resolution preceding this?
47289For what purpose, then, could they be wanted?
47289For what reason are we to subject even our coasters to plunder and abuse?
47289For what was he contending?
47289For what was the object of the opposition in this debate?
47289For what, sir, are we assembled here under a constitution the purest in the world?
47289For whose benefit, sir, is the Government to strip itself of this right, so essential for the due administration of its finances?
47289For why?
47289Forty thousand?
47289From these principles what desertions have we not witnessed?
47289From whence was this conclusion drawn?
47289From which decision Mr. RANDOLPH moved an appeal; which being seconded, the question was put,"Is the decision of the Chair correct?"
47289From which of these stations, said Mr. C., could she have spared, with safety and prudence, a portion of the force employed?
47289GOLD.--The first object with a wise Legislature is, Is the law expedient?
47289Gentlemen ask, has there not been a satisfactory adjustment of our differences with Great Britain?
47289Gentlemen get up and abuse the Spanish Government and people, and what then?
47289Good heavens, between what, Mr. Speaker?
47289Ground their arms and surrender themselves prisoners of war; or are they, sir, to drop their muskets and take to their heels?
47289Had Congress that power?
47289Had he done it?
47289Had it not been more injurious to the United States than to foreign nations?
47289Had not a special court been refused in relation to a property of much greater value than this?
47289Had not gentlemen even called others by name, and introduced every subject on any question?
47289Had not the Navy of Great Britain a beginning?
47289Had the decrees been so modified, under present circumstances, as that they had ceased to violate our neutral commerce?
47289Had the interdiction been confined to British vessels by this law, what would Great Britain have said to this discrimination?
47289Had they not amply redressed the insult of the individual?
47289Had they not had them in other countries?
47289Had we, when all the rest of Louisiana was surrendered to us, obtained possession of Florida?
47289Has France herself agreed to bury her surplus breadstuffs in the earth?
47289Has Great Britain held out the hand of friendship, and have we refused to meet her?
47289Has a picaroon or a buccaneer ever been chastised by them?
47289Has any capitalist said he would venture out in the present tempest which blackens the ocean?
47289Has any malediction of Heaven doomed them to perpetual vassalage?
47289Has it come to this?
47289Has it occurred?
47289Has it operated upon the present Executive?
47289Has it operated, to any perceptible extent, except upon ourselves, during the twelvemonth it has been in existence?
47289Has it released from galling and ignominious bondage one solitary American seaman, bleeding under British oppression?
47289Has not Congress solemnly pledged itself to the world not to surrender our rights?
47289Has not Great Britain driven them all from the ocean?
47289Has not our country increased in wealth and population, in a superior degree to any country on earth?
47289Has not the British army increased with equal pace with her navy?
47289Has not the United States''Bank produced serious alarm?
47289Has not, in fact, the gallant Captain Decatur taken our own seamen out of one of them?
47289Has our hospitality been violated and our officers insulted in our very ports by the vessels of France?
47289Has she not seized every vessel which has arrived at her ports since that period?
47289Has she withdrawn her Orders in Council, and have we insisted on a continuance of our commercial restrictions?
47289Has the Nile ceased to fructify the fields of Egypt?
47289Has the President acted correctly or not?
47289Has the President given any such information?
47289Has the embargo answered?
47289Has the experiment been tried?
47289Has the love of gain superseded every other motive in the breasts of Americans?
47289Has the navy of Russia protected her commerce?
47289Has there been any thing of the kind on our part?
47289Have Sicily and the Barbary coasts returned to a barren state of nature?
47289Have either complied?
47289Have gentlemen reflected on the disastrous consequences of such a system at the present time?
47289Have our citizens been restored to their country?
47289Have they attempted even to show that there exists in the nature of this power a necessary tendency to destroy the nation using it?
47289Have they been committed within our waters?
47289Have they brought forward the mass of their voters as signers to petitions?
47289Have they disturbed the quiet of either House?
47289Have they ever refused supplies because a war was unpopular, since their revolution?
47289Have they not considered it a delicate one?
47289Have they not done so in Baltimore?
47289Have they not in their conduct given us the most sound and wholesome advice on the subject?
47289Have they not more troops on and near the line than we have?
47289Have they not told you, continually, to let them alone; that they knew their own business best?
47289Have they taken a single man out of a ship of war, or one man out of the dungeons of Paris or Arras?
47289Have this Government, and the people of this country, no interest in the prosperity of these manufactories?
47289Have those causes wrought on her a perseverance in her measures?
47289Have those certificates, or protections, as they are commonly called, been confined to_ bona fide_ American citizens?
47289Have those contingencies happened?
47289Have we any French frigates now in our seas?
47289Have we any other evidence of the disposition of the Executive in relation to this bill than that certain gentlemen are in favor of it?
47289Have we constitutional authority to legislate on this subject, and is it expedient so to do?
47289Have we done nothing?
47289Have we done this, as respects Great Britain?
47289Have we from the effects of their trial any lively hope of success in our present attempt?
47289Have we gone to insurance companies or corporations of one kind or another?
47289Have we indeed received no answer?
47289Have we intrigued with the people to induce them to take sides with us?
47289Have we made an impression on the Prince Regent and his Ministry?
47289Have we no country of our own?
47289Have we not already territory enough?
47289Have we not an undoubted right to navigate the Mediterranean?
47289Have we not conclusive evidence to the contrary?
47289Have we not, moreover, the best recorded proof that the present President holds similar opinions on this subject?
47289Have we obtained the objects for which it was commenced?
47289Have we opened our ports to her traders?
47289Have we renewed commercial intercourse with her?
47289Have we stirred up the people into town meetings to aid us by memorials?
47289Have you an army or navy which can make any impression?
47289Have you any thing to hope, by operating upon the minds of the rulers of that nation, a conviction that you are boasting no longer?
47289Have you ever heard of an army on earth that was carried into the field before it had been seasoned in the camp?
47289Have you not as good a right to do that as to pass this law?
47289Have you the least prospect, if you declare war, of attacking Canada this season?
47289He asked if we were prepared to violate the public faith?
47289He asked what will be the situation of this people in sixty days?
47289He asked whether we were prepared to assail our enemy, or repel her attacks?
47289He asked, how efficient could that species of force be, of which the Chief Magistrate did not think it worth while to have a record kept?
47289He asked, what security had the United States, if they did all this, if they submitted to such abject humiliation, that Great Britain would treat?
47289He asked, whether it is wise in an unarmed nation, as we are, to commence hostilities against one so completely prepared?
47289He asked, why rush with this precipitancy into the war?
47289He demanded what there is in the nature and construction of maritime power to excite the fears that have been indulged?
47289He had satisfied his mind that they had engaged in this business unknowingly and unwillingly-- and, what was now asked of the Government?
47289He said, there were two parties in this House; and asked, is it ever known how a question will be decided, until it is taken?
47289He sees the danger clearly?
47289He supposes a sally from a Spanish garrison upon the American forces, and asks what is to be done?
47289He sympathized with the sufferings of his impressed and incarcerated fellow- citizens; but would a territorial war exempt them from impressment?
47289He was asked if any essential alterations would be made within sixty days, in the defence of our maritime frontier or seaports?
47289He wished to know, in point of principle, what difference gentlemen could point out between the abandonment of this or of that maritime right?
47289He would ask that gentleman if he was, during the last embargo, a ship owner?
47289He would, for instance, ask whether so much as related to sacked towns, bombarded cities, ruined commerce, and revolting blacks, had been realized?
47289How abstract, I pray you?
47289How are these orders and decrees to be opposed but by war, except we keep without their reach?
47289How are these pacific advances met by the other party?
47289How are they to be supplied with the article of salt?
47289How are we to get things right?
47289How can we get rid of the war, if we may not say that it is inexpedient, impolitic, and ruinous?
47289How can we make a sacrifice of our own opinions?
47289How comes he in the ranks against us, with his tomahawk and scalping knife?
47289How could one committee properly attend to the mass of business before the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures?
47289How could they be made one with the United States unless by the use of the same language?
47289How did this happen?
47289How distressed?
47289How had it turned out?
47289How had this indisposition for war got into the House?
47289How happens all this?
47289How has it been applied?
47289How has the President performed this constitutional duty?
47289How has this prediction been verified?
47289How is he to know that they have expressed their sense of his conduct from proper motives?
47289How is it now?
47289How is it submission, then, to these orders for us to trade to Gottenburg, when neither France nor Britain command, nor prohibit it?
47289How is our faith plighted?
47289How is our honor affected by removing it?
47289How is that to be done?
47289How many were unable to apply?
47289How shall the law be repealed?
47289How shall we best do it?
47289How stand the people of the British Empire?
47289How then can any encouragement be drawn from that precedent, to support us under the privations of the present system of commercial suspension?
47289How then can we trust to the future predictions of gentlemen?
47289How then has it happened that Congress has taken upon itself the right to erect light- houses, under their general power to regulate commerce?
47289How was it in the conspiracy of Blount and Liston?
47289How wide- spread the relation in the community?
47289How, I ask, could the President act a different part, from the evidence in the case?
47289How, let me ask you, sir, is your Government constituted?
47289How, sir, can I make this matter plainer?
47289How, sir, is it with the State banks?
47289How, then, could the gentleman, after his admissions, with the facts before him and the nation, complain?
47289How, then, is the national faith plighted to France by that law?
47289How, then, sir, are we to account for their late conduct?
47289I ask gentlemen, if her ability to carry on a distant war by land or sea, has diminished?
47289I ask him whether he considers the impressment of American seamen"a violation of an essential right of this country?"
47289I ask if it is necessary?
47289I ask the gentlemen on the other side of the House, whether we have not gained something in this respect by the war?
47289I ask then what physical ability we have to discharge the State taxes, or any other?
47289I ask this House and this nation, whether their hopes or wishes extend beyond what we then enjoyed?
47289I ask whether, under such circumstances, the question ought not to be considered settled?
47289I ask you, sir, where is the strength of which these nations formerly boasted?
47289I ask you, then, sir, why do we hesitate?
47289I ask, did any nation ever do more?
47289I ask, now, whether the impression made by the gentleman from New York was a just one?
47289I beg to be excused for asking him( for I know he scorns submission as much as any man) if submission will pay the public debt?
47289I have been asked, shall Congress rise and do nothing?
47289I have no idea of laughing the subject out of the House; but how can gentlemen see the least probability of success in the invention?
47289I know, sir, that there are men who condemn the conduct of the President in issuing the proclamation; and why?
47289I make the appeal to gentlemen, I demand of the chairman of the committee who reported this bill, why and wherefore it is presented?
47289I might trace the scheme a little further back, and ask, whence the outrages?
47289I now solemnly appeal to gentlemen, why shall we, at this moment, make this marked distinction?
47289I pray you, was not that the condition of the country when Mr. Rose arrived?
47289I request gentlemen to reflect, whether this is not, in point of fact, an abandonment of the other points in dispute?
47289I say, perish the heart, the head and the tongue, that will attempt her justification or apology?
47289I shall, however, examine the non- intercourse system from the date of the law of March, 1809, and inquire what was its professed object?
47289I will admit, sir, that this is not the time or place to institute the general inquiry, whether banks are or are not beneficial to a nation?
47289I will ask how many regiments you have in your present establishment?
47289I will ask the gentleman from South Carolina, what has the nation benefited for this enormous expenditure?
47289I will ask the honorable gentleman from Maryland whether he does not know that letters have been written for that purpose?
47289I will ask, how we succeeded in the Revolutionary war?
47289I will ask, in return, when an officer is appointed to collect the customs, has he not a salary and emoluments?
47289I will ask, what would be the case if such laws had not been passed by the States?
47289I will now proceed, Mr. President, to inquire whether the facts stated in the resolution are supported by the correspondence upon which it is founded?
47289I will put this question to gentlemen: what has Britain done which would require a discrimination as to her public vessels?
47289I wish to know of gentlemen, whether trading with the belligerents, under their present restrictions on commerce, would not be submission?
47289I would ask, how can it be contended to the contrary?
47289I would ask, in a few words, if we ought to continue this establishment in its present state?
47289If B refuses, does A, under the circumstances of such a declaration, violate any obligation, should he refuse to permit the passage?
47289If France has revoked her decrees, is not a non- importation with Great Britain inevitable, and does it not exist?
47289If France revoked her decrees, she was entitled to a non- importation against Great Britain, and if she failed to revoke, what?
47289If a gentleman from Baltimore gives his agent instructions to provide every thing necessary for an East India voyage, what would he expect?
47289If a man submits, of what use are calculations of money, for it may be drawn from him at the pleasure of his master?
47289If done, has it been so done as to amount to an honorable fulfilment or acceptance of our terms?
47289If gentlemen will have it that this is the accepted time for war, how has it happened that we have not had it before?
47289If he did not feel perfectly comfortable in a cold day, should he therefore divest himself of all clothing?
47289If he wished to promote division, how could he better attain his object than by denouncing the people of a particular section?
47289If her Legislature possess it not, can they give it to a Senator?
47289If it is possible to operate on France by commercial restrictions, let me ask if this bill will not accomplish that object?
47289If it was indispensably necessary a day or two ago to provide a revenue, what had since occurred obviating that necessity?
47289If it was not to have influence, why thus evade a decision on the prayer of the petitioner?
47289If it would, to what amount?
47289If justice be not already established in our country, can there be any probability that a more formidable army will effect an object so desirable?
47289If not, then what is meant by this grant to take the property of your constituents, and leave them no remedy for the injury?
47289If obligations of friendship do exist, why does Great Britain rend those ties asunder, and open the bleeding wounds of former conflicts?
47289If obtained, will it accomplish the end proposed?
47289If on such a question the House was to be governed by individual interests, what was the nation to expect from them?
47289If our Government takes away our liberty, is it necessary to contend with a foreign Government for our rights?
47289If our towns could not be defended by fortifications, he asked, would ten frigates defend them?
47289If provision was made for trying this case, must it not be extended to all others?
47289If she can turn our vessels into her ports to pay duty and take out license, what prohibits us from doing the same as to her vessels?
47289If she has it not, can she give it to her Legislature?
47289If so, did he not go to England during the embargo?
47289If so, how can we rely on them against a foe invading our country?
47289If so, how did he go?
47289If so, what will be the effect on the articles of cession and agreement between you and Georgia?
47289If so, why not give the same credence to the letters of the Duke of Massa and the Duc de Gaete?
47289If so, why not unite against the one as well as against the other?
47289If so, would not a fleet secure us from attack also?
47289If such doctrine is to be admitted, when should we have had a moment''s peace?
47289If the alleged principle of retaliation be not the true one, what is?
47289If the article of the constitution, however, did not mean that Congress might take States out of new Territories, what did it mean?
47289If the decree existed in April, 1811, why was it not communicated to this nation, the only one interested in the subject?
47289If the present establishment is not full, what is the reason?
47289If the right to land be indefeasible, could the Government run a road through it?
47289If their existence had been known at the time, would the President in his message recommending an embargo have failed to notice the fact?
47289If then assistance should be offered on the part of the constitutionalists, what is your army to do?
47289If this law were passed, Mr. W. asked, was it perfect?
47289If this law were to pass, could the Secretary of State be authorized to declare the number of Representatives to which each State was entitled?
47289If this principle, then, be equally urged by both, who is to judge between them?
47289If this was the fact, as the committee appear to have believed, I ask, in what their case differs from that of men taken captives by the Algerines?
47289If this were not her object, why such a continued system of illegitimate blockades?
47289If we are to have war, with whom is it to be prosecuted-- not in terms I mean, but in fact?
47289If you did not at once return blow for blow, and injury for injury, would you not at least take a little time to consider?
47289If you mean war, if the spirit of the country is up to it, why have you been spending five months in idle debate?
47289If you settled at all, might you not consider it your duty in some way to make him feel the consequences of his strange intemperance of passion?
47289If your citizens are united, you can capture Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; when you have effected this, what remains next to be done?
47289If, as some gentlemen say, it is a precursor to war, there were some very serious questions to be asked-- What is the situation of our fortresses?
47289If, at so early a period, the right of search for men was objected to by this Government, how much more forcible is the objection now?
47289If, said Mr. C, we are not able to meet the wolves of the forest, shall we put up with the barking of every petty fox that trips across our way?
47289If, sir, the sufferers under the sedition law did suffer contrary to the constitution, ought not their expenses to be reimbursed?
47289If, then, it be inexpedient to make this discrimination against Great Britain, how is it less so, when directed against France?
47289If, then, while creating a public debt, we neglect to provide the means of payment, what will be the consequence?
47289In a word, is resistance submission?
47289In a year from the time of enlistment their term expires, and what becomes of your conquest, without force to keep it, supposing it to be made?
47289In bank bills, the credit of which is at least doubtful?
47289In despite of experience, do they yet believe that our blessed country_ alone_ can produce food for the world?
47289In other words, why the number of officers should now be fixed agreeably to the act of April 21, 1806, rather than that of the 3d of March, 1801?
47289In peace we require no defence, and shall we declare war in order to defend ourselves?
47289In performance of their lofty promises, in disregard of sacred duties, what have they done?
47289In point of revenue how does it work?
47289In relation to negotiating with measures of coercion in existence, Mr. N. asked, when did the violations of our rights commence?
47289In spite of all its boasted effects, are not the two nations brought to the very brink of war?
47289In such case, what will you do?
47289In such case, would staying at home, and refusing any more to go upon the sea, be an exercise of independence in the citizens of New York?
47289In the Revolutionary war how did England stand-- how her islands?
47289In the commencement of this inquiry, Mr. Chairman, we naturally ask ourselves, what edicts are to be revoked, and how are they to be revoked?
47289In the days of terror, we shrunk at standing armies; and what is the object now-- defence?
47289In the intermediate period, what aspect does a Union, thus destitute of cement, present?
47289In the name of God, Mr. Speaker, what grounds had he for this presumption?
47289In the name of common sense, how can this be true?
47289In this view can you be prepared for war at the expiration of the embargo?
47289In this way, I grant, our conduct may be impartial; but what has become of our American rights to navigate the ocean?
47289In what are these ten millions of dollars to be collected?
47289In what condition do they leave the country, which, eight years since,"in the full tide of successful experiment,"fell into their hands?
47289In what do they differ, to their advantage from other felons?
47289In what does it consist?
47289In what does your export to that region consist?
47289In what mode, or by what_ means_ are they to be effected?
47289In what respect, then, are they to be compared to Aaron Burr?
47289In what school had these illustrious men formed those noble principles of civil liberty asserted by their eloquence and maintained by their arms?
47289In what situation would she have stood in relation to the United States?
47289In what situation would you then place some of the best men of the nation?
47289In what way are we bound again to launch our country into this dark sea of restriction; surrounded on all sides with perils and penalties?
47289In what way will the public coffers be filled?
47289In what will this Government consist?
47289Indeed, sir, and in what respect is it entitled to this definition of self- evident?
47289Independently of the obvious propriety of this proceeding in itself, have we, sir, no examples of the course of conduct recommended by the resolution?
47289Is Canada so far conquered that you can now reduce the term of enlistment?
47289Is Great Britain less powerful now, than she was twenty years ago?
47289Is Napoleon our king?
47289Is a question of construction never to be at rest?
47289Is all this trade of no importance to trading people?
47289Is another brood of"restrictive"harpies, more unseemly and more hungry than their predecessors, to be let loose among them?
47289Is any advantage to be derived from complaining of this?
47289Is any disposition evidenced to omit tearing them from their homes and families in future?
47289Is any gentleman prepared to say a smaller penalty will effect the object?
47289Is commerce to be protected by abridging the natural rights of the people?
47289Is he a man of truth?
47289Is it a fact, that greater injuries exist from France than from Great Britain?
47289Is it a land force?
47289Is it a restoration of French property seized under the law of non- intercourse?
47289Is it a want of capacity?
47289Is it admitted that the British fleet secures her from attack?
47289Is it an enjoyment of our rights, or a direct, full submission?
47289Is it because the British officers impress from our vessels others besides natives?
47289Is it because you have power on your side, sir, that you will not submit to a judicial decision of this question?
47289Is it by merely reviving the law of May last, as is the object of this amendment?
47289Is it calculated to produce this effect?
47289Is it come to this, that a law constitutionally enacted, even after a formal decision in favor of its constitutionality, can not be enforced?
47289Is it denied that the Government can take property from an individual, making him compensation therefor?
47289Is it equal and exact justice to those two nations?
47289Is it extinct?
47289Is it for the benefit of the great mass of the American people?
47289Is it for the honor of the nation to remove the embargo, without taking any other measure, and to bear with every indignity?
47289Is it for the honor or happiness of this nation that we should again pass under the yoke of Great Britain?
47289Is it from his past treatment of us?
47289Is it from the correspondence in the genius of the two governments?
47289Is it indeed guilty to defend our country?
47289Is it lost to this nation?
47289Is it necessary as a measure of self- defence, as the only mode of resistance which will bring England to terms?
47289Is it necessary for me at this time of day to make a declaration of the principles of the Republican party?
47289Is it necessary for me to allude to the reduction of the Army-- to say by whom it was made?
47289Is it necessary for me to descant upon the topics of difference which then separated the two great parties in the Government?
47289Is it necessary to show that the right which was exclusive during the patent, is now the common right of all?
47289Is it not a convenient agent for paying and receiving money?
47289Is it not a spirit of war?
47289Is it not admitted that we may lawfully exclude or admit the vessels of both belligerents?
47289Is it not an abandonment of those rights to which we are entitled?
47289Is it not an exclusive privilege secured to the stockholders of this bank?
47289Is it not for the purpose of promoting"the general welfare"of the nation which we represent?
47289Is it not important that the men who live on the seaboard should know that we have a force to repel attack?
47289Is it not known that all the surplus product of the agriculture of this country finds its vent on the Continent of Europe?
47289Is it not known that, of the whole of our tobacco, seven out of eight parts are consumed on the continent?
47289Is it not obvious that England will not comply with her part of the condition, and that the Emperor never expected that she would?
47289Is it not obvious, from the very terms of the letter, that it contains a condition that the repeal is a qualified one?
47289Is it not presumable that the President would choose to have some communication with our Ministers abroad before the meeting of Congress?
47289Is it not rewarding the perfidy of the one at the expense of the other, and at the expense of ourselves?
47289Is it not surprising, then, that we are called upon to give him the approbation of this House?
47289Is it not then our duty, as guardians of the public interest, to provide this powerful, this necessary means of defence?
47289Is it not these acts which have shut us out from a market?
47289Is it nothing to us to extinguish the torch that lights up savage warfare?
47289Is it on similarity of language?
47289Is it on the ocean that the impression is to be made?
47289Is it possible such doctrine should be advocated on the floor of Congress?
47289Is it possible that such a declaration could be deemed orthodox when proceeding from lips so unholy as those of an excommunicant from that church?
47289Is it possible that this Government will sanction such arbitrary practices?
47289Is it pretended to enter into any stipulations with Great Britain as to our conduct?
47289Is it right to take from one part of the community ten millions of dollars and put it into the hands of another part?
47289Is it so believed by the Administration?
47289Is it that of a nation keen to discern, and strong to resist, violations of its sovereignty?
47289Is it to be imagined that a power so vast would have been left by the wisdom of the constitution to doubtful inference?
47289Is it to be supposed that the people of the United States will agree to this?
47289Is it to our advantage to be excluded from the trade of the continent?
47289Is it to secure the independence of the people, to suffer a foreign nation to impose upon them any terms which it thinks proper?
47289Is it to tell us she never will redress our wrongs; or is it to divert us from a prosecution of our rights?
47289Is it to the interest of the Administration that these abuses should continue, and that loans and taxes should be resorted to to cover them?
47289Is it to walk about this earth, to breathe this air, and to partake the common blessings of God''s providence?
47289Is it unjust to continue the war, till this demand is complied with?
47289Is it want of pecuniary or want of physical capacity?
47289Is it, that we have suffered the non- intercourse law to expire?
47289Is it_ Le Roi s''avisera_?
47289Is no respect due to the opinions of our predecessors?
47289Is not a bank a proper place for the deposit and safe- keeping of money-- more so than the custom- house?
47289Is not every office in law called a franchise or a particular privilege?
47289Is not the authority of the marshals competent to the execution of the laws?
47289Is not the course a just and necessary one?
47289Is not the income of every man impaired?
47289Is not the war- worn soldier calling on us every day with his demands?
47289Is not this a consideration that ought to be taken into account?
47289Is not this feature modelled after the feature in the Government of England?
47289Is not this proof that the merchants did not consider the risk very great?
47289Is not this sufficient to induce us to take away from Governors this prerogative?
47289Is not, then, the exemption from these liabilities an important immunity?
47289Is such an act calculated to induce the belief that the embargo operates as a bounty on British trade?
47289Is that a consideration to have no weight upon such a question as this?
47289Is that a fact?
47289Is that a mere idle discussion?
47289Is the Administration for negotiation?
47289Is the American nation ready to bow the neck?
47289Is the Executive to infer from the proviso that something exists in the law which the friends of the proviso declare does not exist?
47289Is the Secretary of the President of the United States knocking at the door for admittance?
47289Is the South of easier access than the North, and is the circle of hostility to be extended to that quarter?
47289Is the embargo submission?
47289Is the enemy at the gate?
47289Is the gentleman who represents that district( Mr. SEYBERT) willing that they shall absolve themselves from their contract by enlisting in the Army?
47289Is the gentleman willing to surrender the carrying trade to Great Britain?
47289Is the last effort to preserve the peace of the nation, to be abandoned from these considerations?
47289Is the minority thus to be dragooned into this measure?
47289Is the new and before unheard- of system of blockade abandoned?
47289Is the object of this bill to promote science or the useful arts?
47289Is the power to create this paper medium, or national currency, an attribute of State or national sovereignty?
47289Is the removal of the non- importation act, and the admission of British vessels, nothing?
47289Is then a refraining from so doing, submission?
47289Is there a land upon the globe so fair, so happy, and so free?
47289Is there a man who hears us who has not experienced its utility?
47289Is there any liberty left among the people of France, or of those countries that France has conquered?
47289Is there any limitation to the law on the statute book?
47289Is there any probability that there will be any?
47289Is there any probability, the slightest indication, that it will answer?
47289Is there any provision in the constitution directing it?
47289Is there any provision now made?
47289Is there any thing in the last communication from the President, calculated to produce such an effect?
47289Is there any thing yet wanting to fill up the full measure of injustice you have sustained?
47289Is there no danger that we shall become enervated by the spirit of avarice, unfortunately so predominant?
47289Is there no difference between protecting an existing right, and taking away a right from one party for the purpose of vesting it in another party?
47289Is there no difference in the price under these circumstances?
47289Is there not in this some proof that the evil has been magnified?
47289Is there not time, I beseech you, gentlemen, to proceed in the regular mode to the election of our officers?
47289Is there, indeed, a physical impossibility of removing them?
47289Is this a justification for such an atrocious and exorbitant grasp at power?
47289Is this a novel doctrine, either as to time, or the nation who now attempts to enforce it?
47289Is this an honest neutrality?
47289Is this coincidence of members, this exclusively Federal petitioning, no mark of party?
47289Is this embargo what it pretends to be-- preparation for war?
47289Is this great continent and the free millions who inhabit it, again to become appendages of the British Crown?
47289Is this measure no abridgment of their rights?
47289Is this no argument for reduction?
47289Is this republican?
47289Is this the period of all others to be selected to incorporate unmeaning laws in the body of your statute book?
47289Is your course along the highway of nations unobstructed?
47289It appears to be limited to sixty days; at the expiration of that time will any one say we shall be prepared for war?
47289It had been asked, why was the country unprepared for defence?
47289It has been asked whether the embargo has not operated more on the United States than on the European Powers?
47289It has been rejected by France, and rejected by England after an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars-- and now are we to take it up?
47289It is asked of us, why admit the vessels of France, whilst injuries which she has done us are unatoned for?
47289It was possible, but was it probable that any event would occur to alter our situation for the better?
47289It was then read a third time; and on the question, Shall the bill pass?
47289It would rise, on a removal of the embargo, to ten or twelve dollars; and how long would that price last?
47289Let me ask him, if Administration should not take this course, whether it would not be perfectly proper that Congress should be in session?
47289Let me ask if an American vessel under it can go to any port of France?
47289Let me ask if it be not better to admit them?
47289Let me ask the gentleman who asked that question, what mighty good our Army has done by land?
47289Let me ask who will buy them when put into the market?
47289Let me ask you, sir, what else he did, or could intend?
47289Let me ask, what will be your export while that war continues?
47289Let me ask, which have we placed in the best situation, France or England?
47289Let me, therefore, inquire, in what this horrible act of substitution, as Mr. Jackson would make it appear, consists?
47289Man is frail, and why should not, at times of public agitation and concussion of parties, abuses arise?
47289May I not trust their confutation to that general knowledge of the subject which every member of the House possesses?
47289May we not cherish this sentiment, without presumption, when we reflect on the characters by which this war was distinguished?
47289May we not, in time, have the whole of South America, some of the West India islands, and, possibly, Great Britain?
47289Mr. Chairman, is it for an infant nation, or a popular Government, to be deterred by the want of preparation?
47289Mr. D. asked if the nation was to be saved by long speeches?
47289Mr. MACON asked under what clause of the constitution Captain Murray and others had been remunerated?
47289Mr. STANFORD said:--Mr. Speaker, I would ask if my colleague''s motion of amendment can be in order?
47289Mr. Speaker, are we to be thus amused?
47289Mr. Speaker, can any argument be more conclusive?
47289Mr. Speaker, what would be your conduct on such an occasion?
47289Mr. Speaker: What is this liberty of which so much is said?
47289Must I not, then, deplore the feebleness of voice, the want of force, of manner, and promptness of mind and thought, which limit me?
47289Must the best interests of the nation be put to hazard to save him the mortification of acknowledging his error and retracing his steps?
47289My colleague( Mr. CLAY) has asked for the congeniality between a bank and the collection of our revenue?
47289Need I remind you, said Mr. R., of the millions of victims sacrificed to commercial cupidity on the plains of Hindostan, by means of this navy?
47289Need I say any thing further on the subject?
47289Need I undertake to prove that, from the moment Whitney''s patent expired, his exclusive right ceased to exist?
47289No doubt, sir, when the embargo is taken off, a momentary spur will be given to exportation; but how long will it continue?
47289No; it has the ability, that is admitted; but will it not have the disposition?
47289No; it was intended by this bounty to make us a great commercial people; and shall we ungratefully reject the enjoyment of his unexampled beneficence?
47289Now I would ask, whether it is probable, that the British subjects would be willing to lend us money to carry on war against their sovereign?
47289Now suppose we should look over our former exports to this island in any one year, what should we find the amount to be?
47289Now the questions which result are, has the act been done?
47289Now what is proposed by denying a renewal of the United States''Bank charter?
47289Now, I ask, if they dare not resort to a direct tax, excise laws, and stamp acts, where will they obtain money?
47289Now, he asked, whether men who had any regard to national honor would consent to navigate the ocean on terms so disgraceful?
47289Now, if it became a State, would not all right of negotiation on the subject be taken from the President?
47289Now, is not here an essential right to be alienated?
47289Now, is there any reason to suppose that the contingent expenses of our navy would be greater in proportion to its force than this?
47289Now, sir, I ask when we have made this country a State if we can do this?
47289Now, sir, after thus stripping this extraordinary sentence of all its disguises, and translating it into plain English, to what does it amount?
47289Now, sir, as to the non- intercourse system-- how does that operate?
47289Now, sir, did this decree exist at the time of its date?
47289Now, that the State which the gentleman represents is almost in arms against us?
47289Now, what is the fact?
47289Now, what reliance could be placed on this patriotism?
47289Now, when a vile spirit of party has gone abroad and distracted the Union?
47289Of what avail is the proclamation of the Prince Regent in this country, ordering the British subjects home?
47289Of what consequence is it to us what way the Gottenburg merchant disposes of our products, after he has paid us our price?
47289Of what materials will this army be composed?
47289Of what nature are the rights in contest?
47289On commercial intercourse?
47289On the question, Shall the bill be read a third time as amended?
47289On the question, Shall the bill pass to the third reading as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass?
47289On the question, Shall this bill pass?
47289On the question, Shall this resolution pass?
47289On the question,"Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time, as amended?"
47289On the question: Shall this bill pass to a third reading, as amended?
47289On the subject of impressments, for which alone the war is now to be continued, what, let me ask, is the principle for which our Government contends?
47289On the subject of maritime law, has he not stated things which before were unheard of?
47289On what does the ability of a nation depend?
47289On what ground can this discrimination be defended?
47289On what ground does this rest?
47289On what principle is it that British ships were first excluded and on which their exclusion was confirmed by the non- intercourse law?
47289On what, sir, is the honor of this nation now suspended?
47289Or against England, who, with the monopoly of commerce which you leave her to enjoy, has no object further to annoy you?
47289Or by what right do we create a military school?
47289Or does the obligation of friendship exist on the part of the United States alone?
47289Or in what section of the Union does the gentleman presume to say the American people will not submit to the law?
47289Or is he the President of the United States?
47289Or is he to get that information from inofficial sources?
47289Or is it there our seamen are held in captivity?
47289Or was it ever contended that had not the embargo been raised, the terms of Jay''s treaty would have been worse?
47289Or was the Administration conducted in such a manner as to make the firmness and patriotism of the nation itself doubted abroad?
47289Or, are we to tantalize their hopes with energy in one law and imbecility in another?
47289Or, if it be one of those unmeaning propositions, the discussion of which could answer no good to this House?
47289Ought it not, then, to follow, that the rights of those employed on land or water should also be inseparable?
47289Ought the impending calamities to be left to the hazard of a contingent remedy?
47289Ought we not to relieve its anxieties?
47289Ought we, sir, to depend upon these men to man our fleets, or to defend our ports and harbors?
47289Our privateers; will they have no effect on Great Britain?
47289Pay tribute-- for what?
47289Permit me here to endeavor to illustrate my idea by a reference to the constitution itself?
47289Permit me to ask, how has it been ascertained that a bank is necessary to the operations of the Government?
47289Permit me to inquire of that gentleman whether he ever saw a law authorizing one man to give another his promissory note?
47289Permit me to inquire, in the first place, how the object of the constitution may be attained?
47289Porter,"Free trade and sailor''s rights,"617; is there a man doubts the war was justly undertaken?
47289Public property; and what species?
47289Put down this bank, and how then are your revenues to be collected?
47289Question 2--At what place was the conversation held?
47289Question 3--Have you seen the members alluded to, or any of them, since you first appeared before this committee on Saturday last?
47289Question by the committee-- From the conversation of what members did you collect the information of which you have spoken?
47289Question, shall the Senate adhere to their amendments?
47289Question-- Do you know where Henry is now?
47289Respectable merchants, I observe, form a part of the bank deputies-- for what?
47289Retain the qualified veto, and take away the power to prorogue and dissolve, and what will be the consequence?
47289Reverse this picture, admitting that you have a war with Great Britain, what will be its consequences?
47289SIR: Before I reply to your question,"how many major generals and brigadiers are necessary for an army of thirty- five thousand men?"
47289Say thirty- five, and you add twenty, making together fifty- five: what use is there in multiplying regiments without men?
47289Say, if you please, that you had those ships built, could you send them to sea?
47289Seamen, who shall be attached by every tie to this country, and on whom we can depend for its defence in time of danger?
47289Shall I be obliged by a laborious process of reasoning to prove the obligation of Government to rescue him from such suffering?
47289Shall I be pardoned, sir, when I fear our vessels will only tend to swell the present catalogue of the British navy?
47289Shall I be told the President had discovered that the blockade had been"avowed to be comprehended in, and identified with, the orders in council?"
47289Shall I not attempt to arrest your progress in the path where lies a serpent that will sting you to death?
47289Shall it again be held, in its orbit by the attractive, the corruptive influence of the petty island of Great Britain?
47289Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?
47289Shall negotiation be spun out further?
47289Shall the majority govern, or shall a few wicked and abandoned men drive this nation from the ground it has taken?
47289Shall the nation give way to an opposition of a few, and those the most profligate part of the community?
47289Shall the revenue be reduced?
47289Shall this bill pass to a third reading as amended?
47289Shall we after this be told that Congress can not constitutionally exercise any right by implication?
47289Shall we always shrink from the contest?
47289Shall we always yield?
47289Shall we exclude both, admit both, or discriminate?
47289Shall we have companies without captains, or shall the United States pay for two captains?
47289Shall we sit here with our arms folded until the enemy is at our gates?
47289Shall we then abandon commerce, or shall we strive to support it?
47289Shall we then believe the one and not the other?
47289Shall we thereby secure our commercial rights?
47289Shall we turn a deaf ear to the claims of individuals upon Government because of this statute?
47289Shall we vindicate our independence at the expense of our social or moral obligations?
47289Shall we, by their conquest, obtain the objects for which this war is waged?
47289Shall we, sir, continue the war for these men?
47289Shall we, then, by passing this resolution, sanction an idea that Lieutenant- Colonel Washington was entitled to more respect than others?
47289Shall we, then, utter this libel on the nation?
47289Should France have been selected?
47289Sir, are we to continue in this state any longer?
47289Sir, can men thus situated, solvent as they ought to be ten times over, find relief from the State banks?
47289Sir, have I moved you a nauseous, sickening resolution, stuffed with adulation?
47289Sir, have we no rights to defend?
47289Sir, have we not been for years contending against the tyranny of the ocean?
47289Sir, how is this to be done?
47289Sir, if simplicity was not originally contemplated by the framers of the constitution, why the imposition on the people in publishing it to the world?
47289Sir, if this be the fact, of whom does this wealthy population consist?
47289Sir, is it possible that Congress can so far forget their duties to the people and their respect for themselves?
47289Sir, shall I not be permitted to point to the yawning gulf beneath?
47289Sir, what can gentlemen flatter themselves by suffering this discussion to be protracted to so unwarrantable a length?
47289Sir, what has been the cause of our present condition?
47289Sir, what in such a case would be true honor?
47289Sir, what is the nature and import of this proclamation?
47289Sir, what is this power we propose now to usurp?
47289Sir, what sort of title is this?
47289Sir, what would be the effect of passing by unnoticed these gross and insidious insults to both the people and Government?
47289Sir, where is your commerce now to protect?
47289Sir, will not the same reasoning apply against the maritime towns being taxed to support the army of 10,000 men in the West?
47289Sir, will your money, when collected, be safe in the State banks?
47289Sir, without indulging in vague conjectures, what are the best data we have to form an estimate of the amount of specie in the country?
47289Sir, would Great Britain rely for her oracles on the newspapers or pamphlets of this country?
47289Sixty thousand?
47289So far from it, would not the danger of French influence be resounded throughout the nation?
47289Some gentlemen indulge great expectations from privateers; but has Great Britain any unarmed or unprotected trade which they can attack?
47289Strip the proposition, and what language does it speak?
47289Suppose an attack upon any portion of the American army within the acknowledged limits of the United States by a Spanish force?
47289Suppose an attempt to subvert this Government, would not the traitor first aim, by force or corruption, to acquire the treasure of this company?
47289Suppose it ours, are we any nearer to our point?
47289Suppose that the whole fine in any particular case had been paid by individual subscription, what has the Government to do with that?
47289Suppose these men had been arrested and tried in this country, what would have been their lot?
47289Suppose they should neglect or refuse to make these appointments, can you compel them to do it?
47289Suppose this expectation disappointed-- suppose the harbor of New York blockaded by two seventy- fours?
47289Suppose you make this transmission once, can you do it a second time?
47289Surely; and yet we pay annually a tribute for permission to do it-- and why?
47289Surrender your independence-- for what?
47289Take a landsman on board a ship, and what sort of a sailor will he make?
47289Take off the embargo, they cry-- for what?
47289Take, then, the population of Canada to be 300,000 souls; what number of militia should this population furnish?
47289Tell me, said he, what is to keep a great proportion of them from your coast in 1813?
47289That is out of the question; then, the only question is, whether in the present state of the world, the embargo or war is the best for us?
47289That of our cotton, at least one- half finds its market there?
47289That she can admit that we have her always perfectly in our power?
47289That the gentlemen on the other side of the House were divided on that subject, as they were upon the question of the reduction of the Navy?
47289That they should expend large sums of money for the purpose of buying them out?
47289That we should repel insults and respect ourselves?
47289That, because we can not submit to the edicts of the belligerents, we will therefore open a free trade with them?
47289That, under the pretext of a purchase from an Indian, named Double Head, people have gone over to settle lands, is true; but from where?
47289The Orders in Council-- and what were they worth to him?
47289The SPEAKER inquired whether Mr. G. yielded the floor?
47289The SPEAKER then decided that the main question to now put, was:"Will the House concur with the Senate in the amendments made to the bill?"
47289The amendments made by the House having been agreed to, the question was stated, Shall the bill be engrossed, and read a third time?
47289The avowed principle is retaliation, but is it the true principle?
47289The basis of all commerce is calculation; what calculation can be found for distant enterprises when the data are perpetually shifting?
47289The commerce of that city, which exists only by commerce, destroyed?
47289The committee rose and reported the bill without amendment, and the question was, Shall it be engrossed for a third reading?
47289The gentleman from Kentucky( Mr. CLAY) asked, if banks are necessary for collecting the public revenues, why give them any other power?
47289The gentleman from Pennsylvania asked yesterday, why not repeal the embargo laws, and provide for the enforcement of this system by a new law?
47289The gentleman had appealed to the House to know why they would retain them?
47289The gentleman says, suppose they were to return to their country, would they not be punished?
47289The great subject for the contemplation of every reflecting mind in America was, what that remedy should be?
47289The inquiry has been made, with some solicitude, what will you do with_ naturalized foreigners_?
47289The majority now stand on high ground-- what will be said, and what will be the consequence of a refusal?
47289The merchants?
47289The negotiation opens, and what is done?
47289The only question is, do they cease to violate our neutral commerce?
47289The only question that presents itself is, Is the information useful to us?
47289The press is groaning with pamphlets-- for what?
47289The proceeding was unanimous; and what benefit did the British nation receive from this unanimous and prompt proceeding?
47289The proper extent of the discussion growing out of this bill seemed to be confined to these inquiries: Can the force contemplated be obtained?
47289The protection of the General Government claimed?
47289The question is, Has he told the truth?
47289The question is, how many marines are necessary, and in what battles are they employed?
47289The question is, what regulation shall we make respecting public ships, and one of three courses is to be pursued?
47289The question is, what should be done?
47289The question ought always to be, What becomes the nation?
47289The question then arises, what, under these circumstances, ought the officers and crew to be allowed?
47289The question then presents itself, has Congress the power to divest the people of that right?
47289The question was stated thus:"Is the decision of the SPEAKER correct?"
47289The question was then taken--"Shall the amendments be engrossed, and, together with the bill, be read a third time?"
47289The question was then, on what day shall it be read?
47289The question which at once presents itself to every mind disposed to inquire, is, what is the object of this vast military force?
47289The question"Shall the bill be engrossed for a third reading?"
47289The right of not being vexed or endangered by paper blockades?
47289The said bill was, accordingly, read the third time: Whereupon, Mr. SPEAKER stated the question from the chair, that the same do pass?
47289The second object, which should never for a moment escape attention, Can the law be executed?
47289The ship owners, the East and West India merchants, and what cause have they for war?
47289The spoliation of your property?
47289The true question is not, Is the matter expressed in this abstract proposition true?
47289The violation of the personal liberty of your citizens and the degradation of the ensign of your sovereignty?
47289The whole estate or my moiety only?
47289Then the question results, has Congress a right, in order to determine its title, to refer it to any tribunal whatever?
47289Then, to my mind, the only question is, shall we defend ourselves, or shall we submit?
47289There ought to be no question as to what stock they sprung from; the true question was, ought they to be a State?
47289They ask where are the men-- where is the money to be obtained?
47289They asked--"What do we want of Canada?
47289They complained of the first embargo; what did they get?
47289They have been delivered to you by my honorable colleague-- what are they?
47289They were gaining strength daily, and what was the situation of our Southern borders?
47289They were repealed, finally, in consequence-- of what?
47289Thirty thousand?
47289This being the case, who would now be most likely to be supplied with it?
47289This decree did not exist; and why was it not issued?
47289This decree purports to be an act of reprisal on this country, and for what cause?
47289This heaped up measure of legislative contumely is prepared; for whom?
47289Through the medium of the State banks?
47289To break up your infant manufactories, and to deprive poor children at once of a useful employment, and a home?
47289To defeat the passage of this bill?
47289To promote the public good or advance the national prosperity?
47289To protect the constituents of my worthy colleague, in the enjoyment of their peace of mind?
47289To provide no protection against smaller powers?
47289To such favored beings what would be the suggestions of love, truly parental?
47289To the Baltic, sir?
47289To what is it owing that we are at this moment deliberating under the forms of a free representative government?
47289To what purpose do we keep up the Marines, another branch of the Establishment?
47289To what was our superiority owing?
47289To whom will you confide the charge of leading the flower of our youth to the Heights of Abraham?
47289Under all these circumstances was it wise and prudent to discharge the Navy?
47289Under such circumstances is it not to be expected that this measure of the Executive will result in war?
47289Under such circumstances, what should hurry us into the war?
47289Under these circumstances what ought I to do?
47289Under these circumstances, Mr. R. asked the House if it were not necessary for a committee to be appointed to probe into this business?
47289Under this grant, Congress can pass laws to carry into effect the powers vested in the judicial department?
47289Under what clause money paid into the Treasury had been returned in various instances?
47289Upon meeting with this gentleman he inquired of me what had been done?
47289Upon what ground, then, sir, is it that we are called on to pass this additional non- importation act against Great Britain?
47289Upon whom are they dependent for legal existence and for length of days?
47289Virginia has the physical force, but has she a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States?
47289War has been declared by a law of the land; and what would be thought of similar attempts to defeat any other law, however inconsiderable its object?
47289Was Holland ruined by her navy?
47289Was any nation ever less prepared for war?
47289Was ever any body of men so cruelly wounded in the house of their friend?
47289Was he expected to answer this question?
47289Was he to set at defiance the law of the land?
47289Was it believed that the gentleman from Pennsylvania( Mr. SMILIE) was disposed to submit to the belligerents?
47289Was it competent, he asked, to the Government to receive as testimony the statement of the commander or crew of an American corsair?
47289Was it for the purpose of destroying the Government?
47289Was it for this the martyrs of the Revolution died?
47289Was it not for want of unanimity in support of the measure?
47289Was it not in consequence of its having been wantonly, shamefully, and infamously violated?
47289Was it not, he asked, infinitely absurd and a direct violation of the constitution, to apportion the representation before these numbers were known?
47289Was it obtained_ bona fide_ for a fair and full consideration?
47289Was it proposed now to declare war?
47289Was it so considered by the Republicans, when resorted to for redress against the primary violations in 1793?
47289Was it such a repeal as the gentleman contends ought to have taken place of the Berlin and Milan decrees, viz: under the sign manual of the Emperor?
47289Was it taken from an impression which had gone abroad in the country?
47289Was it that the members of that Army should sheath their swords in the bowels of the liberties of their country?
47289Was it then for the first time, that a division of sentiment appeared on this floor?
47289Was not the President, in good faith, bound to believe the fact, and, believing it, bound to act as he did?
47289Was not the first vessel which ever doubled the Cape of Good Hope, under the flag of the United States, the old frigate Alliance?
47289Was not the royal family decoyed by artifice from Madrid to Bayonne?
47289Was the President of the United States presumed to have turned a deaf ear to the cries of our suffering countrymen in captivity in a foreign nation?
47289Was the batture ceded to the United States?
47289Was the embargo principle considered submission in the days of the stamp act?
47289Was the fact so?
47289Was the gentleman from Maryland( Mr. KEY) who represented the adjacent district, in the same belligerent temper?
47289Was the letter of Mr. Erskine a repeal of the British orders?
47289Was the right of the citizen to fall prostrate before such an_ ex parte_ opinion or statement as that might be?
47289Was there not some difficulty, under the proclamation, in the admission of the Statira frigate, bearing that Minister into our waters?
47289Was this a necessary of life without which they could not subsist?
47289Was this an avowed object in the Convention when it formed this article?
47289Was this blockade such a violation of the neutral rights of the United States as to come decidedly within the act of the last session?
47289Was this body calculated for that branch of Government?
47289Was this the ground on which the subject was placed?
47289We are farther told that impressment of seamen was not considered a sufficient cause of war; and are asked why should it be continued on that account?
47289We are not only, sir, to ruin many innocent and unoffending individuals, but to derange the national finances; and for what is all this to be done?
47289We are now going to war for the protection of these rights; but in what way, and under what circumstances?
47289We are, sir, in a state of war; and what is evidently the course which we should pursue whilst in that situation?
47289We asked, What were the emoluments?
47289We create a military school-- for what purpose?
47289We have been asked, Mr. Speaker, why not lay upon your table a proposition to go to war?
47289We have been asked,"What are some of the small States when compared with the Mississippi Territory?"
47289We lay an embargo-- is there any clause in the constitution authorizing us to lay embargoes?
47289We say we will not trade-- with whom?
47289We take off the embargo, and trade on their terms; what will be the consequence?
47289Well, sir, how does she dispose of it?
47289Well, sir, how was this miracle brought about?
47289Well, sir, if the bank promptly calls in its loan of four hundred thousand dollars, will the debtors be enabled to meet their payments?
47289Well, sir, was there ever a crisis calling on a people for vigorous exertions more awful than that which impends over us now?
47289Well, sir, what then?
47289Well, what then, say my friends?
47289Well, what then?
47289Were I to affirm the House is now in session, would it be reasonable to ask for proof?
47289Were ever a body of men so abandoned in the hour of need, as the American Cabinet, in this instance by Bonaparte?
47289Were gentlemen willing to submit to this: to raise the embargo, and subject our trade to this depredation?
47289Were not parties arrayed against each other in 1796 on the subject of the British Treaty, and in 1798-''9, on the question of a war with France?
47289Were not the disputes in this House, in those times, as long and as bitter as they have ever been since?
47289Were the islands starved during these years?
47289Were these people to be starved out, when they could actually purchase cheaper now from other places than they had formerly done from us?
47289Were they to have resisted, and how?
47289Were we more regardful of the property than the personal liberty of the citizen?
47289Were we not to resist Great Britain because of her 1,130 sail of armed vessels?
47289Were we to redress those wrongs, those commercial injuries, on the land?
47289Were you able in the summer to recruit your army of twenty- five thousand men, could it be employed in any service in the course of this year?
47289What State would have adopted the constitution, if it had been foreseen that this power would be granted to any man, however distinguished by office?
47289What accounts did he bring?
47289What advantage are my constituents to derive from the expenditure of this money?
47289What advantage have we derived from it?
47289What are a few seaport towns-- enterprising, wealthy, and prosperous, as indeed they are-- what are they, compared to my continental system?"
47289What are his doctrines?
47289What are our preparations for war?
47289What are some of the legal effects of this incorporation?
47289What are statutes of limitation as applicable to individual cases?
47289What are the reasons for vesting Congress with the right to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States?
47289What are they?
47289What are they?
47289What are you about to do-- to breathe vigor and energy into the bill?
47289What becomes of the immense revenues derived from those sources?
47289What better mode could have been adopted, to prevent Indian hostility and intercept British supplies of the instruments of massacre?
47289What but pillage, insult, and scorn?
47289What can resuscitate wheat devoured by the fly?
47289What cause of complaint has Denmark, or ever had Denmark, against us?
47289What cause, Mr. Chairman, which existed for declaring the war has been removed?
47289What change, sir, has occurred in the state of things to produce this strange impossibility?
47289What claim has the Spanish Government upon our moderation and forbearance?
47289What crime has been left undone?
47289What did she first dictate for remedying any complaint?
47289What did they do?
47289What did you in this instance?
47289What do its terms necessarily include?
47289What do they imply?
47289What do we understand by regulating commerce?
47289What does it still require?
47289What does public economy require, but that every one should serve the Republic in that capacity in which he can be most useful?
47289What does the Attorney- General state in his report?
47289What does this prove?
47289What earthly good can result from it?
47289What effect do gentlemen expect that the embargo will have had in May?
47289What effect has it produced on France?
47289What effect has this measure produced on foreign nations?
47289What evidence have we had since to give us a more favorable prospect, as it respects the revocation of the decrees?
47289What fate befalls the agriculture of the South?
47289What glory?
47289What has Mr. Canning given you in return?
47289What has become of that high Federal spirit which disdained to buy Louisiana?
47289What has become of that vast amount of money?
47289What has become of the newspaper called the Washington Federalist?
47289What has been her conduct since we acquired Louisiana?
47289What has been her conduct?
47289What has he said?
47289What have been the propositions heretofore made by our Government to Great Britain upon this subject?
47289What have we done since?
47289What have we gained?
47289What have we here, in the estimate of last year?
47289What have we to destroy this proof?
47289What if the other Hull had commanded?
47289What influence could the opinion of the Attorney- General have?
47289What injuries have been received from France?
47289What insults, what injuries had we not suffered?
47289What is a corporation such as the bill contemplates?
47289What is a just and necessary war?
47289What is done with it at this epoch?
47289What is due to the national honor?
47289What is it that the youth has not to prepare, or when was it that a popular Government taxed itself with previous preparation?
47289What is it to lead to?
47289What is it we do for a license to go into the Mediterranean?
47289What is necessary to sustain an elevated fitness of character and conduct in the nation?
47289What is now the situation of affairs?
47289What is that plan, and what are the objects in contemplation?
47289What is the consequence?
47289What is the declaration made to the British Minister at this place, by our Secretary of State, on this subject?
47289What is the doctrine of my friend from Georgia?
47289What is the effect of this double obligation?
47289What is the expression of the British Envoy on which gentlemen rely, and on which they are about to sit down quietly under the vine and fig tree?
47289What is the fact, admitting all that this person has said to be true?
47289What is the fact?
47289What is the import of this provision?
47289What is the language they speak?
47289What is the nature of the title set up by the gentleman from Vermont?
47289What is the nature of this Government?
47289What is the object of this language?
47289What is the object of this vast military force?
47289What is the plain language of this preamble?
47289What is the proposition which he submits?
47289What is the result of it?
47289What is the situation of our country generally?
47289What is the spirit that breathes in the five resolutions which have been adopted-- resolutions which were in entire accordance with my feelings?
47289What is the state of British commerce at this time?
47289What is the state of the bank in this city?
47289What is the state of things alluded to?
47289What is the state of trade between us and France?
47289What is the subject- matter in dispute?
47289What is this argument of infancy?
47289What is this tribute?
47289What is to fill your Treasury now, if the people can not sell their products?
47289What limitation does it contain upon the power to raise and support armies?
47289What limitation does the constitution contain upon the power to lay and collect taxes, imposts, duties, and excises?
47289What loans, I ask, have Government ever received from the Bank of the United States?
47289What maritime strength is it expedient to provide for the United States?
47289What may be the effect, if you introduce either of these two principles into this bill?
47289What misfortune so great as the loss of character?
47289What more can you do?
47289What must be the effect of such insinuations?
47289What must be the inevitable consequence if this measure is suffered to go into effect?
47289What must you do?
47289What nation or individual ever reached that state?
47289What nation, in so short a time, ever before ascended to such a height of commercial greatness?
47289What new order of things has disqualified them for the enjoyment of liberty?
47289What object could he have in view which should induce him to conclude an arrangement, except with full confidence of its being carried into effect?
47289What offence has she committed against France?
47289What power have we to negotiate about the territory of any of the States?
47289What prohibits us from doing to England what England does to us?
47289What prospect is there that the embargo will be removed?
47289What reason could there be for enacting this law, if the principles of the law of 1807 were correct?
47289What reason had been given for such a course?
47289What regular trade can yield such profits on the outward and inward cargoes?
47289What reply did the majority of Congress give to this train of reasoning?
47289What republicanism is this?
47289What resistance do they afford against their decrees or confiscation?
47289What restore flour soured in the barrel?
47289What restriction is to be found in it upon the right to provide and maintain a navy?
47289What right has Britain to tyrannize on the ocean, and prescribe limits to our trade?
47289What right, in the whole charter of our rights, has not at some time been abused?
47289What rights, Mr. Chairman?
47289What satisfaction has been received for your plundered property?
47289What says France?
47289What says it?
47289What says the sarcastic British Minister?
47289What shall we say of the_ French_ doctrine in relation to this subject of impressment?
47289What sort of attack have we cause to expect?
47289What the ability of its debtors to meet their engagements?
47289What then is the inference from this state of the case?
47289What then is the object of the opposition?
47289What then results?
47289What then was her situation?
47289What then will be the consequence of passing this bill?
47289What then would be the case?
47289What then?
47289What think you, sir?
47289What though their cities offer no plunder?
47289What though their conquest can yield no glory?
47289What upon the right to declare war and make peace?
47289What use has been made of it?
47289What was our situation now?
47289What was that case?
47289What was the amount of the gentleman''s showing on this occasion?
47289What was the case in 1798?
47289What was the condition to be performed on the part of France?
47289What was the consequence?
47289What was the consequence?
47289What was the consequence?
47289What was the effect of our eloquent addresses, when colonies, placed at the foot of the British throne?
47289What was the effect of this information?
47289What was the fact as respected France?
47289What was the fact in this case?
47289What was the history of it?
47289What was the leading object of the adoption of the Federal Constitution in the northern parts of the Union?
47289What was the occupation of a Virginian wife-- her highest ambition?
47289What was the offer made to our Government by the British Ministry?
47289What was the policy of the ordinance, and what the object of its framers?
47289What was the power of Venice and Genoa when they led the van of naval power?
47289What was the situation of some branches of our commerce then?
47289What was the situation of the slaveholding States?
47289What was the vote then?
47289What was then our condition?
47289What was then our situation with those nations?
47289What was there to mar success?
47289What was this ground?
47289What were the House about to do?
47289What were the facts?
47289What were the objects of the war?
47289What were then the doctrines of the French Government?
47289What were those measures?
47289What were those that characterized its progress and termination?
47289What were your preparations for the Revolutionary war, and when made?
47289What will avail the activity or gallantry of your officers and seamen against such disparity of force?
47289What will be the consequence of laying down our arms, of shrinking from our present attitude?
47289What will be the consequence of such neglect?
47289What will be the influence of such an institution on the Government, and the country at large?
47289What will be the situation of this unhappy, misguided country?
47289What will in this case become of your source of wealth in the Western country?
47289What will the Government of Spain, Junta, King, or Governors of Spanish provinces to whom you apply, say to you on this subject?
47289What will the gentleman discover, by examining the history of the period he referred to?
47289What would an honest Dutchman in the West think of a man who kept as many stables as horses, and those of the most expensive construction, too?
47289What would be inferred from this procedure?
47289What would be said in a court of justice in a case of murder?
47289What would be the effect of such a system in the present war?
47289What would be the effect of this war upon ourselves?
47289What would be the effects of war, the tocsin of which was for the first time sounded through the land?
47289What would be the object of a war?
47289What would be the situation of your seaports and their seafaring inhabitants?
47289What would be the upshot?
47289What would have been the situation of our cause in the Revolution, if, after the British successes in Jersey, we had desponded?
47289What would have been thought of such conduct in the war of the Revolution?
47289What would it have been for sixty, one hundred, or three hundred and sixty- five days past?
47289What would then be the state of the Territorial Legislatures?
47289What, I would ask, is the probable fact, as to the facilities which this bank will afford the Government in borrowing?
47289What, Mr. President, is the nature of this title?
47289What, Mr. Speaker, are we now called on to decide?
47289What, have we a Minister abroad, and is he afraid or unwilling to make a proposition to the Government where he is resident?
47289What, he asked of the House, was settled by the passage of this bill?
47289What, he asked, was the extent of the country in question?
47289What, said Mr. C, is this statute of limitations, which, whenever mentioned in this House, seems to make everybody tremble?
47289What, said Mr. D., is the situation in which we are now placed?
47289What, said Mr. M., will be the effect of a proposition for taxing salt in the country?
47289What, said Mr. R., has been the situation of Great Britain in relation to Spain?
47289What, sir, are, or have been its effects on Great Britain?
47289What, sir, did gentlemen on this floor say was the purport of this note?
47289What, sir, has been the practice of the British House of Commons?
47289What, sir, has been the practice under this law?
47289What, sir, have the other party done?
47289What, sir, said Mr. M., would have become of Rome, had she desponded when Hannibal defeated her armies?
47289What, sir, shall constitute cause of war?
47289What, sir, was the avowed object of this war?
47289What, sir, was the conduct of the British Parliament and nation upon that occasion?
47289What, sir, was the object of that law?
47289What, sir, were the circumstances under which that mission was despatched here?
47289What, sir?
47289What, then, had experience taught them on this subject?
47289What, then, is the true construction of the Treaties of St. Ildefonso and of April, 1803, from whence our title is derived?
47289What, then, is this case?
47289What, then, let me ask, has changed the character of those people, that they are to be despised?
47289What, then, was our situation when Congress met?
47289What, then, were the causes of the war?
47289When Bonaparte talks of the freedom of the seas, does he mean the same idea which we attach to these words when we use them?
47289When Mr. Jefferson, that illustrious character, presided over the destinies of the United States, why was not this navy- building proposed?
47289When Spain was the ally of France she was-- what?
47289When an adjustment is made with one of those powers, what is your language?
47289When did our coercive measures commence?
47289When did that voracious monster ever disgorge the plunder he had once received into his insatiable maw?
47289When did they begin; when, though they may have been varied in character, were they relaxed in degree, and when were they probably to cease?
47289When gentlemen attempt to carry this measure, upon the ground of acquiescence or precedent, do they forget that we are not in Westminster Hall?
47289When has England been at peace with all the world, since she became a great naval power?
47289When he talks of the principles of maritime law, does he mean the same as we?
47289When the country was in want of clothing, and could get it for one- fourth price from the British, what was the consequence?
47289When you had differences with both the belligerents, what was your language?
47289When, by the express letter of the instrument,"new States may be admitted,"and when Vermont, not mentioned in the Confederation, has been admitted?
47289Whence but from that origin came all the blessings of life, so far as political privileges are concerned?
47289Whence can the money be obtained?
47289Whence comes it, that in the archives of this Assembly, we find copies of licenses given by the Executive power of the nation-- to do what?
47289Whence could be the objection to Congress meeting at an earlier day?
47289Whence did we derive a power to purchase Louisiana, and incorporate it with the good old United States?
47289Whence does this gentleman derive the power of declaring an act of Congress not in force, declared by the President''s proclamation to be in force?
47289Whence the inducement to urge the annulment of a blockade of France, when, if annulled, no American cargoes would obtain a market in any of her ports?
47289Whence the power to make it an instrument of commerce?
47289Whence was derived a power to pass a law laying an embargo without limitation?
47289Whence, sir, do you get the right, whence do you derive the powers to erect custom- houses in the maritime districts of the United States?
47289Where are her colonies into which we could carry our arms?
47289Where are her ships?--where her commerce?
47289Where are the navies of Sweden and Denmark?
47289Where are they gone?
47289Where are those rights when great maritime powers become belligerent?
47289Where are we to come in contact with our enemy?
47289Where can the necessary supply of cotton be procured?
47289Where could we have carried on against her any of the operations of war?
47289Where could we subjugate her provinces?
47289Where do you expect to find regulations of commerce?
47289Where does the remainder usually go?
47289Where have you seen a National Bank, connected with the Government, which has not ultimately ruined the circulating medium of the nation?
47289Where is Holland now?
47289Where is it when Canada is mentioned?
47289Where is that spirit which enforced a simple resolution of the old Congress, not then binding upon the people, as a law from Heaven?
47289Where is that spirit which for this reason separated us from the nations of Europe?
47289Where is the Macedonian phalanx, the opposition in Congress?
47289Where is the Montgomery, or even the Arnold, or the Burr, who is to march to Point Levi?
47289Where is the difference, sir?
47289Where is the impost duty which has supported the Government, and sunk to a considerable degree the national debt?
47289Where is the justice-- where the equality-- of such a provision?
47289Where is the justice?
47289Where is the limitation upon this power to set up corporations?
47289Where is the necessity of a proviso if the law does not bear such a construction?
47289Where is the proof that the Executive did not call for those powers?
47289Where is your revenue then to come from?
47289Where now is the Revolutionary hero to whom you are about to confide this sacred trust?
47289Where shall we stop, said Mr. D., if we tread back on the steps of each other?
47289Where was the necessity, they will tell you, of declaring that the Orders in Council will_ have been_ withdrawn?
47289Where were they found?
47289Where will be the boasted militia of the gentleman?
47289Where will proof be found of a fact so disgraceful?
47289Where will those supplies be drawn from?
47289Where would it end if the House were now to make a solemn resolution approving of the conduct of the President?
47289Where, sir, could we attack France?
47289Where, then, is the ground of such an influence?
47289Where, then, is the money to be found, or what has been done with it?
47289Where, then, is the necessity for this bank?
47289Where, then, will you protect your commerce?
47289Whether Congress have the power by the constitution to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States?
47289Whether it does not appear probable that at least one thousand of those contained in this list were impressed without even a plausible pretext?
47289Whether we believe in all the rights which the French Emperor condescends to claim for us from the British, although he will not admit them himself?
47289Which is best-- to keep them at home, to a certain loss and probable ruin, or adventure them abroad to a possible loss and highly probable gain?
47289While we facilitate negotiations with the British, why should we embarrass and prevent the same with the French?
47289While we throw wide open the door of negotiation to England, why should we shut it against France?
47289Whilst these peaceful experiments are undergoing a trial, what is the conduct of the opposition?
47289Who but Christophe and Petion?
47289Who can bear the idea of our being obliged to burn or sink all the ships we may take away from the enemy, for fear of their being recaptured?
47289Who could say them nay?
47289Who denies it?
47289Who ever pretended to believe in its efficacy?
47289Who has not heard of the once formidable fleets of Venice and Genoa?
47289Who is here that hears these words, but what approves the sentiment they contain?
47289Who is properly the presiding officer in this case?
47289Who is there, now, in this body who has not voted for the erection of a light- house?
47289Who is this man, and where is he?
47289Who is this war party?
47289Who must suffer by it?
47289Who then has been the first aggressor?
47289Who was in possession of the land when the law passed?
47289Who was there now to supply all these various colonies that used to be supplied by us?
47289Who was to decide which was the correct one?
47289Who were the members of our first Congress?
47289Who were they?
47289Who will become the purchasers-- Great Britain?
47289Who will impute to this body so disgraceful a motive?
47289Who will profit by it?
47289Who would dare to avow an intention to defeat its operation?
47289Who would step forward to rescue them from that punishment due to their crime if convicted by our own courts?
47289Who, sir, are the true friends-- I do not speak of motives-- who in fact are the true friends of Administration?
47289Who, sir, can estimate the complicated mischiefs of a depreciated paper currency, without specie for its redemption?
47289Who, sir, will be most likely to avail himself of this privilege, or rather of this course?
47289Who?
47289Whose products, then, would Great Britain carry?
47289Why are we partisans of either?
47289Why are your Ministers now loitering in foreign Courts?
47289Why do it, then?
47289Why give to Congress the right to coin money and regulate its value?
47289Why has it so happened that this necessity has never existed until the last session of Congress?
47289Why has the gentleman shielded British instigation of their outrages?
47289Why has the measure failed of expected success?
47289Why invest it with a capital immense in amount, and sovereign in its control over the external and internal commerce of the country?
47289Why is a judge, sworn to support the laws and constitution of the country, bound by a train of decisions contrary to his own opinions?
47289Why is he impelled to shed our blood?
47289Why is it out of order?
47289Why keep them up at this place, whence they could not get out of the river perhaps in three weeks or a month?
47289Why kiss the rod of iron which inflicts the stripes without a cause?
47289Why legislate by halves?
47289Why love her rulers?
47289Why make the distinction in this instance?
47289Why need they decide this business immediately?
47289Why not, it was asked, wait for the actual census of the territory?
47289Why not, sir?
47289Why not?
47289Why should our sympathies be awakened in favor of Spain?
47289Why should such a power have been delegated?
47289Why should they come here then?
47289Why should we hurry into a war from which nothing but calamity can be expected?
47289Why so many vexatious restrictions upon neutral trade, tending to destroy competition on our part in the continental markets?
47289Why then is it, that we are called upon to make a new declaration of independence?
47289Why then should they not be manned and put in readiness for service?
47289Why then, in this awful crisis, shall we not look to the same quarter?
47289Why then, sir, should we not have union, when it is so easy and efficacious a remedy for all our difficulties?
47289Why this great cry about domestic manufactures?
47289Why was he not hanged as a traitor?
47289Why was not that mercy which is so pathetically called for bestowed on them by that tribunal before whom the case was examined?
47289Why was the evidence of the repeal of the decrees withheld?
47289Why were they not liberated?
47289Why, and for what was the constitution made?
47289Why, sir, do you think the merchants will believe that you really intend to go to war?
47289Why, sir, does the gentleman disapprove of the President''s proclamation?
47289Why, sir, is it strange?
47289Why, sir, was justice so long delayed, and why was it at last obtained?
47289Why, then, should it be condemned?
47289Why, then, should it be now determined at all events to abandon this measure?
47289Why, then, sir, shall he now affect not to understand us?
47289Why, then, will gentlemen persist in that course where danger is almost unavoidable, and shun that where safety is almost certain?
47289Will a navy have this effect?
47289Will any gentleman regret that this twenty- six gun ship has been built, though the mastery of the Lakes has been acquired without it?
47289Will gentlemen be good enough to condescend so far as to assign some object that the Executive could have had in view from such conduct?
47289Will gentlemen suffer me to turn their attention to this last fact?
47289Will gentlemen tell us from whence they are to procure the principal articles of provisions and lumber?
47289Will he explain it?
47289Will he pretend to say, that this is an offensive war; a war of conquest?
47289Will it be less difficult or unpopular to do this after the debt has accumulated to an enormous amount?
47289Will it be said, that when the arrangement was made with Mr. Erskine the President had no knowledge of the blockading orders of May, 1806?
47289Will it come from the Eastward, in bills of the State banks?
47289Will it compel the great belligerent Powers to do us justice for past injuries and secure us for the future?
47289Will it contradict itself by taking away the seamen?
47289Will it not be prudent to diminish the extent of this evil by putting down this bank which is the fountain from which the whole system flows?
47289Will it then be asked, shall we not go to war and fight our way?
47289Will not the alarm be increased by its continuance at this time?
47289Will not the officer be also liable to the State laws?
47289Will not the same causes produce the same effects now as then?
47289Will she learn nothing from the loss of three or four hundred ships?
47289Will she make no diversions in their favor?
47289Will she suffer us to carry the war into her territories, and not retort upon us?
47289Will she then respect our rights?
47289Will the country be less able to repress insurrection?
47289Will the gentleman say she values the principles of the Orders in Council, as she did the sovereignty of her colonies?
47289Will the gentleman trust the merchants with the guardianship of his own honor?
47289Will the honorable gentleman tell us why?
47289Will they deign to listen to the voice of history, and learn how chimerical are their apprehensions?
47289Will they not forever hereafter compel us to trade as they please?
47289Will they prove us by the_ waters_, and reject all such as will not lap as the dog lappeth?
47289Will this old argument, in favor of a navy, now be used, which we have so often heard heretofore?
47289Will you call upon her to leave your ports and harbors untouched, only just till you can return from Canada to defend them?
47289Will you find him in the person of an acquitted felon?
47289Will you have a list of them?
47289Will you have any?
47289Will you keep house forever, rather than make choice of the path through which you will resume your external rights?
47289Will you not only go to war, but wage a_ bellum ad internecinum_ for it?
47289Will you open your campaign at mid- summer?
47289Will you protect that clandestinely destined to Great Britain?
47289Will you protect that destined to the coast of France?
47289Will you refuse to do yours?"
47289Will you say that your provocations were less then than now?
47289Will you say to England,"end the war when you please, give us the direct trade in our own produce, we are content?"
47289Will you seek for the deep foundations of her power in the frozen deserts of Labrador?
47289Will you tax the great agricultural community for the purpose of protecting this extraneous commerce?
47289Will you, sir, have the goodness to direct an inquiry, and order the release of such as are citizens of the United States?
47289Will, then, any injury, or any combination of injuries, authorize or require national resentment?
47289With them alone?
47289With these facts staring him in the face, how could he do otherwise than urge an early session?
47289With this discriminating, permanent, municipal law, could we expect Great Britain to treat with us as a neutral?
47289With what sentiment, think you, would such doctrines have been received?
47289Without her maritime strength, would she have aspired to balance the scales of power on the Continent?
47289Would a tax on salt, he asked, be equal?
47289Would any gentleman who regarded his honor tell the House that there were 30,000 inhabitants in the undisputed Territory?
47289Would he not be right to suspect those who vote for, and more especially those who bring forward such a proposition, of improper motives?
47289Would he not have used it as one of the strongest inducements to the adoption of this system?
47289Would he respect us more than England would?
47289Would it be good policy, he asked, to let our means of carrying on war on the ocean rot in our docks, and not make use of them?
47289Would it be possible that foreign powers could look up with any reverence to their acts?
47289Would it establish our neutral rights?
47289Would it have been proper for the Government to have entered into no stipulations for the security of American seamen?
47289Would it have had that power, if this right had not been expressly delegated?
47289Would it not prove beyond doubt that the Administration was sincere in its wishes for peace?
47289Would it, in your opinion, be advisable to increase the duty on foreign tonnage?
47289Would not the passage of this resolution be considered as an indirect censure on the other Revolutionary characters who have gone from us?
47289Would not these carriers supply their own manufacturers?
47289Would she carry products of other nations, and let her own manufacturers starve?
47289Would she have become a party to the infamous conspiracy of Pilnitz?
47289Would she have broken the peace of Amiens whence her present dangers arise?
47289Would she have wantonly plotted the dismemberment of France?
47289Would the English nation have endured it?
47289Would the chivalry of gentlemen on the other side of the House have suggested an invasion of France?
47289Would the conquest of those colonies shake the policy of the British cabinet?
47289Would the remedy for this interference with our rights be abandoning the ocean altogether?
47289Would they have been permitted in favor of the United States, could those wants be supplied from any other quarter?
47289Would they suffer cotton to go elsewhere, until they themselves were supplied?
47289Would this satisfy the Emperor?
47289Would you be apt to look as much at the nature of the propositions, as at the temper of the assailant?
47289Would you consent to see a scuffle at the gallows between the civil authority and the military for the body of that wretch?
47289Would you have excluded British vessels since 1793, for taking the vessels engaged in your lawful trade, and for impressing your seamen?
47289Would you not tell such an assailant, that you were not to be bullied nor beaten into any concession?
47289Would you ratify such an arrangement if you could help it?
47289Would you ship your commerce there merely to surrender so much property into the grasp of the Emperor?
47289Yes, Mr. President, I reiterate, are they not murderers?
47289Yes, sir, ask yourself this question in regard to any man, to whom you are about to confide important trusts: Does he pay his just debts?
47289Yet, I ask the question: is not the spirit which it breathes disgraceful?
47289You have always got the better of the argument; you have better proclamations; but what avails all this?
47289You have been heretofore told your paper measures were worth nothing: now that it is proposed to give blow for blow, what is said?
47289You have taken Quebec-- have you conquered England?
47289You will wage war, and not to rescue your fellow- citizens from imprisonment and stripes?
47289Your trade was, a few years ago, unrestrained and flourishing-- did it not enrich the most distant parts of your country?
47289[ 34] For these injuries and insults what atonement has been made?
47289_ Blank ballots, shall they be counted?_--In the House on election for Speaker two blank ballots were cast, shall they be counted?
47289_ In the House_, bill taken up, 547; is it such as to require secrecy?
47289_ Now_, where are we?
47289above the legal rate of interest?
47289and has she not always refused to make any arrangement about them?
47289and that, too, from a nation at all times disposed to depress this growing country?
47289and what would be the probable addition to the revenue applicable to the year 1814 by such increase?
47289are they now more disposed to succumb and accept your terms than before the war?
47289debate become angry and be prolonged?
47289did they fall?
47289for relieving him from a dreadful captivity?
47289has the gentleman received any such, even informally, from any officer of this Government?
47289how is it so influenced?
47289how?
47289if so, whence did it arise?
47289is this that_ bona fide_ performance of the condition?
47289or does any American wish to see his country prostrated still lower?
47289or from the unofficial conversation of the members of the House?
47289or how can Mr. Jackson reconcile it to himself to say that in adhering to these gross insinuations, he did not intend to give offence?
47289or is her hostility merely commercial?
47289or should even endeavor to teach others to venerate, to cherish, to support it?
47289shall our militia be commanded by officers commissioned by the President?
47289the orders of June and November, 1793, which produced Jay''s treaty?
47289to engage every man who is willing to serve his country?
47289to place a recruiting officer in almost every town and village in the United States?
47289were parties never before heard of in this country?
47289what injury have we not suffered?
47289what''s that?
47289what''s that?"
47289where would have been that proud spirit of resistance to Ministerial encroachment on our rights and liberties, which achieved our independence?
47289whether, by our laws, and the practice under them, we have afforded them all that protection and security to which they are entitled?
47289who are they?"