| United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...Resolved, That the President, in the late executive proceeding in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Having had the honor, through the voluntary suffrages of the Americw people, to fill the office of... | |
| Jabez Delano Hammond - New York (State) - 1842 - 584 pages
...expunged from the journals of the senate of the United States, the resolution of the 28th March, 1834, declaring ' That the president, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation... | |
| Jabez Delano Hammond - New York (State) - 1842 - 590 pages
...expunged from the journals of the senate of the United States, the resolution of the 28th March, 1834, declaring ' That the president, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the conslituiion and laws, but in derogation... | |
| Henry Clay - United States - 1842 - 518 pages
...different conclusion. I think, I solemnly believe, that the President " assumed upon hin»27 -,/ self authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both," in the language of the resolution. I believed then in the trutli of the resolution ; and I now in my... | |
| Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 1144 pages
...the United States. But the resolution, in fact, imported no such guilt. It simply affirmed, that he had " assumed upon himself, authority and power not...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." It imputed no criminal motives. It did not profess to penetrate into the heart of the President. According... | |
| Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 614 pages
...the United States. But the resolution, in fact, imported no such guilt. It simply affirmed, that he had ' assumed upon himself authority and power not...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.' It imputed no criminal motives. It did not profess to penetrate into the heart of the president. According... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1843 - 698 pages
..."TZesü/rff/, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred...Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." And whereas alterward, to wit, on the 16th day of January. 1637, the Senate, in reference to the above... | |
| Henry Clay - Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 - 1843 - 612 pages
...mind conducts me to a totally different conclusion. I think, I solemnly believe, that the President " assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both," in the language of the resolution. I believed then in the truth of the resolution ; and I now in my... | |
| Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 804 pages
...mind conducts me to a totally different conclusion. I think, I solemnlv believe, that the President " assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in deroga; tion of both," in the language of the resolution. I believed then in the truth of the resolution... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...of 28 to 18 — the latter by a vote of 26 to 20, after being modified so as to read : ' Resolved, That the president, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogatTon... | |
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