Book/Printed Material Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of Connecticut, relative to the public lands being under consideration; delivered in the Senate, February 25, 1830
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Image 1 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … HD 197 1830c Copy 2- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 2 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 3 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 4 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 5 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 6 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 7 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … LUE 4 Tt ee ae Nee SPEECH Mr SMITH OF SOUTH CAROLINA aN LHE RESOLUTION OF Mr FOOT OF CONNECTICUT UE PUBLIC BAwDs 4 da JUN ZI eo j Et ee i…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 8 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ante- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 9 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … SPEECH Mr Smiru said this debate had assumed a wide range and encircled almost every political subject that had agitated this Government for the last forty years and more Although about to…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 10 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 4 misguided by seeing but one side of the question he public are always prepared to judge rightly and if correctly informed will always do so On the subject of party politicsa…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 11 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 5 Jand a country that not one American in twenty thousand ever heard of there to speculate upon a quarter section of land when there are millions of acres lying at his…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 12 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 6 so deeply the feelings and interests of a large portion of the Union cannot be put aside or laid to sleep We cannot Jong avoid itwe must meet and overcome it…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 13 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 7 stantly exceeded the ability of the People to pay What has been the consequence sir Almost universal poverty Sir under a system by which a drain like this is constantly operating…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
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Image 14 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 8 debts exceeded their ability to pay that under a system by which a drain like this is constantly operating upon the wealth of the whole community the country may be truly…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 15 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 9 quering the country It was conquered by the Government and the lands surveyed ready for the highest bidder to take possession immediately Is it sir because a small portion of the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 16 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 10 grading What can be more humiliating to a public assembly than to be informed it must prepare to get rid of an important public question or it will overcome us Such…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 17 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 14 to be paid out of the public Treasury of the United States and to be applied in the States respectively to make roads lands for colleges lands for every other public…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 18 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 12 They ask indulgences and receive them but they with very few exceptions believe that such a surrender would be de structive to their morals and harmony Besides sir there were other…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 19 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 13 to be sold and what was the quantity of unsold lands includ ing what was unsurveyed as well as what was surveyed Al so the amount of moneys for the lands…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 20 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 14 This Mr President is not a supposed case gotton up for the purpose of argument that may be true or may not be true but is as certain as a mathematical…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 21 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 15 whether this was a correct or an incorrect principle so it was that when that immense tract of country lying Northwestof the Ohio river was ceded tothe United States by the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 22 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 16 very different result in favor of South Carolina The plain and obvious meaning of the act cannot be mistaken The words which bear upon this question are Shall be considered a…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 23 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 17 in this report the balances that appeared after the war to be _ due to the creditor States are specifically stated Of the cre ditor States there were but fiveMassachusetts Connecticut…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 24 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 18 that system the representative principle was not known The _ representation of each State was the same and each State had but one vote so that the division upon the representative…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 25 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … zo _ 4 will not propose a system for disposing of your public dands will leave that sir to some other hand If however the sales were to go on as heretofore…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 26 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 20 And here sir I might close bu this discussion has gone so far and spread so widely and public expectation had be come so excited on particular topics on which I…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 27 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … a1 England as well as elsewhere who borne away by fanati cism or something worse are sending their seditious pam phlets and speeches among our slaves and taking other im proper steps…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 28 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 22 wholly visionary These things do well enough to talk about and sometimes have a political effect or give pecuniary em ployment to those who have nothing else to do But sir…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 29 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 23 We have been egregicusly misrepresented sir by visionary theorists speculating travellers aud ranting politicians who would impose upon the world a belief that the slaves of the Southern States are starved…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 30 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 24 and more practical civil libertyyes civil liberty in its true practical sensethan constantly exists among Southern slaves As to crimes they are so rare among them as to be almost unknown…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 31 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 20 to augment it by applying to the British Government for a large donation of lands Should this colony succeed and grow to any extent if I might hazard an opinion I…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 32 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 26 tion Each gentleman has at least justified his own political course whilst he reproached that of others And some warmth has arisen as regarded the origin of this measure One asserting…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 33 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 27 heard from him on this occasion not only his opinions but iikewise his constitutional reasons for his very decided opin ions that Congress possessed this constitutional power The Senator from Kentucky…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 34 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 28 To what purpose Mr President has this subject been brought into this debate It has undergone an elaborate dis cussion by those gentlemen but neither of whom haye so much as…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 35 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 29 it nor never would had the discussions been confined to Congress That Congress understood it cannot be question ed It had been debated warmly in Congress from 1816 till that law…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 36 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 30 Icome now Mr President to the subject of the Tariff concerning which there exists so much anxiety and upon which there depends so much interest It has occupied a con spicuous…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 37 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 31 to withdraw and say to the vest of the Union we no longer belong to you because you have violated the compact with us we have decided for ourselves that you…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 38 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … Then sir suppose the Court of the United States always to consist of seven Judges as it now does and suppose a ques tion upon the constitutionality of a law of the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 39 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 38 Were I to be asked what opinion I entertained of the power of a State to dissolve its political connexion with the Union would respond Go ask my constituents This is…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Image 40 of Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of … 34 perpetuated wish it may endure through all time But if the same causes exist in our Government which have overturn ed other Governments what right have we to expect an ex…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, William
- Date: 1830
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Title
- Speech of Mr. Smith of South Carolina: the resolution of Mr. Foot of Connecticut, relative to the public lands being under consideration; delivered in the Senate, February 25, 1830
Names
- Smith, William, 1762-1840
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington, Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1830.
Headings
- - Public lands--United States--Speeches in Congresses
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- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC ecr 2020-10-30 update (1 card)
- - LAC tnb 2023-03-29 update (1 card)
Medium
- 55 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HD197 1830c
- AC901 .T6 vol. 1, no. 5 5th item in vol. titled: Toner Pamphlets.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 53056877
OCLC Number
- 6213812
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- Congressional Speech Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Smith, William