nothing has ever presented so threatening an aspect as what is called the Missouri question. the Federalists compleatly put down, and despairing of ever rising again under the old division of whig and tory, devised a new one, of slave-holding, & non-slave-holding states, which, while it had a...

you will have learnt that an act for internal improvement, after passing both houses, was negatived by the President. the act was founded avowedly on the principle that the phrase in the constitution which authorises Congress ‘to lay taxes to pay the debts and provide for the general welfare’ was...

our intention is that it’s professors shall be of the first order in their respective lines which can be procured on either side of the Atlantic.

The laws of humanity make it a duty for nations, as well as individuals, to succour those whom accident & distress have thrown upon them.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

there is no constitutional difficulty as to the acquisition of territory: and whether, when acquired, it may be taken into the union by the const. as it now stands, will become a question of expediency.