Journal of the Senate of the United States of America

Front Cover
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1809 - Electronic journals
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 99 - Resolved — That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the House...
Page 9 - ... were originally founded and open the way for a renewal of that commercial intercourse which it was alleged on all sides had been reluctantly obstructed. As each of those Governments had pledged its readiness to concur in renouncing a measure which reached its adversary through the incontestable rights of neutrals only, and as the measure had been assumed by each as a retaliation for an asserted acquiescence in the aggressions of the other...
Page 232 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 36 - ... an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States...
Page 173 - Representatives, to make a list of the votes as they shall be declared ; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate...
Page 228 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 13 - Europe have undergone no material changes since your last session. The important negotiations with Spain which had been alternately suspended and resumed necessarily experience a pause under the extraordinary and interesting crisis which distinguishes her internal situation.
Page 259 - An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary Powers;" in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate.
Page 19 - ... of the principal of the funded debt, being the whole which could be paid or purchased within the limits of the law and of our contracts; and the amount of principal thus discharged will have liberated the revenue from about two millions of dollars of interest, and added that sum annually to the disposable surplus.
Page 18 - The suspension of our foreign commerce, produced by the injustice of the belligerent powers, and the consequent losses and sacrifices of o.ur citizens, are subjects of just concern. The situation into which we have thus been forced has impelled us to apply a portion of our industry and capital to internal manufactures and improvements. The extent of this conversion is daily increasing; and little doubt remains that the establishments formed and forming, will, under the auspices of cheaper materials...

Bibliographic information