Biography of Isaac Hill, of New-Hampshire

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J. F. Brown, 1835 - 245 sidor
 

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Sida 124 - At this time the efforts of the Bank to control public opinion through the distresses of some and the fears of others, are equally apparent, and if possible more objectionable. By a curtailment of its accommodations, more rapid than any emergency requires, and even while it retains specie to an almost unprecedented amount...
Sida 124 - It being thus established by unquestionable proof that the Bank of the United States was converted into a permanent electioneering engine, it appeared to me that the path of duty which the executive department of the Government ought to pursue was not doubtful. As by the terms of the bank charter no officer but the Secretary...
Sida 117 - No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the Senate, or read any newspaper, while the journals or public papers are reading, or when any member is speaking in any debate.
Sida 244 - ... the representative ought not to be palsied by the will of his constituents." I, however, am willing that each State should regulate its own practice in relation to rotation in office. The party with whom I act in the State of New Hampshire is adopting a rule, which while it makes office accessible to every man who will deserve it, preserves the purity and economy and simplicity of its administration. ^ It would be more for the interest of the public...
Sida 82 - ... said Secretaries the official forms to be issued in the different offices for disbursing the public money in those departments, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the persons employed therein; and it shall also be his duty to superintend the preservation of the public accounts subject to his revision.
Sida 117 - Arcan. Pari. 17. The corresponding rule of the Senate is in these words : No member shall speak more than twice in any one dehate on the same day, without leave of the Senate Rule 4.
Sida 8 - He, himself, said that it was at this time that he laid the foundation of that disaster to his eyesight which for thirty years seemed to be almostan unsurmountable obstacle to his chosen profession.
Sida 57 - Bell had been elected by the legislature to fill a vacancy in the Senate of the United States.
Sida 82 - Departments, warranted by law; reports to the Secretaries the official forms to be used in the different offices for distributing the...
Sida 188 - ... England democrats have encountered the dominant party at vast odds — they have suffered every species of persecution and contumely. Shall these men not be protected by the administration of the people under General Jackson ? If that administration fail to extend this protection, then indeed it will fail of one of the principal objects for which the people placed them in power by at least two to one of the votes of the Union.

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