Political Quotes

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.

They may be redeemed out of the accruing revenue if the expenditures do not exceed the amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept without prejudice to the public interest.

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the Constitution to establish...

for such legislative action on the part of Congress as may be necessary to carry the engagements of the United States under the convention into full effect.