Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
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Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
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Category : United States
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Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483300651
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, in the House of Representatives, Monday, January 10, 1876 Mr. Speaker: The honorable gentleman from Maine, who under some dispensation of Providence or of the people is no longer our Speaker, has seen proper at the beginning of this centennial year to tear away the plasters of prudence over the green and bloody wounds of our civil conflict. He has seen proper to justify his conduct in the light of history. I venture to say that there is no precedent in history and no canon in political philosophy which the party in the minority on this floor have not outraged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331364177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox: Of New York, in the House of Representatives, November 19, 1877 If you asked any question of the stranger about Paris, he dilated upon the "noggs," "cobblers," "smashers," "cocktails," "eyeopeners," "moustache-twisters," and "corpse-revivers" of the American restaurant. [Laughter.] Stewed oysters, terrapins, soft-shell crabs, canvas-back ducks, and prairie hens were introduced under the Stars and Stripes, to the attention, admiration, amazement, and stomachs of the French population for the first time. Nor are the provisions of the original bill for a corn diet any novelty in France, for green com and succotash were as common then as cobblers and cocktails. [Laughter.] General-Welfare Clause. Under some clause of our Constitution for the general welfare and happiness of mankind our appropriation for this exhibition is justified. Such exhibitions not only fail to give dignity and grandeur to to our character as a nation, but utterly fail to contribute to the common defense and general welfare. They fail to usher in that intelligence, courage, and unassuming glory which should illustrate the first republic of the world. Strict Construction and Reserved Power. Seriously, Mr. Chairman, it is about time that the pendulum swung from one extreme to the other in relation to constitutional construction and taxation. It is true that parties seem to be changing on vital rules of construction. What has not the last year brought forth? Let me use a fable to teach the lesson. It is said that there was a giant once who swallowed windmills without choking, but who was suffocated next day by a piece of fresh butter! [Laughter.] So with our republican State-rights friends. There was nothing too huge or crooked which they did not swallow under the war power and for twelve years after the war; but when the votes of States falsely personated came to us in a Federal way their hatred of State rights vanished. They swallowed State rights as if they had the lubricity of butter. The recent elections look as if they suffered, if they were not suffocated, by the act of deglutition. It is well, when our opponents here are carrying reserved rights to such extremes, for us to consider how far we are swinging in the other direction. If this measure is to be justified in a democratic House, where is the limit for any and all objects which hover like birds of prey about the Treasury? Whatever good may be done our industries by such expositions, there are many distinguished in public life who are not ready to admit that there is any authority to tax for any such purpose. When we ask those who favor such schemes for any grant of power to sanction such appropriations, they spread into platitudes. In the Centennial debate one member justified the appropriation by saying that we had a right to show other nations that we exist, and, therefore, an appropriation was justifiable. (Record, Forty-first Congress, first session, page 522.) As Mr. Townsend, of Pennsylvania, remarked: We have expended more than five billions to render it certain that this nation shall exist. We have spent five billions to have a centennial, and when you come to the constitutional question - the question of right - I say, sir, that if a nation has a right to exist, it has a right to show to the world that it does exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656150625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York: In the House of Representatives, Feb 7, 1881, Also a Speech on Our Continental Policy, Delivered on Feb 26, 1881 Not for lack of material but for the sake of terseness, I close my exhibit of the positive side of this question with a brief summary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656147953
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, in the House of Representatives: For Adherence to Retrenchment, Saturday, June 17, 1876, on the President's Message Relating to Appropriations The mind which would make law without heeding minute partien lars has neither observed the phenomena of the material world, nor understands the first clause of the social contract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Hardpress
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318587889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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