The exigency had become so great that Congress was compelled for the first time in our history, to resort to the issue of government notes as a legal-tender currency.
Mr. Spaulding admitted that "a suspension of specie payment is greatly to be deplored," but he contended that "it is not a fatal step in an exigency like the present.
While these interesting events were in progress the military exigency was engaging the attention of the people with an interest almost painfully intense.
The government exigency was so pressing that the Senate discussion was limited to four days.
They were followers of Clay, and not to be trusted by the new South in any exigency where the interests of slavery and the perpetuity of the Union should come in conflict.
The exigency calls loudly on the states to carry all the recommendations of the committee into the most vigorous and immediate execution; but more particularly that for completing our batteries by a draught with all possible expedition.
When a boy in school, he virtually gave up talking, and thereafter opened his lips only when some practical exigency was to be filled.
This was an exigency for which none were prepared.
They were prayers for guidance in this exigency of finding a despised intelligence exalted.
Only Brad Freeman, always behindhand, save at some momentary exigency of rod or gun, was fulfilling the prophecy that the last shall be first.
He was a man raised up by Providence to meet an exigency in human history, and an exigency in the experiences of the United States.
And he met the exigencywith distinguished success.
Neither present exigency nor needed preparation required the delay, and he believed it to be opposed alike to economy, patriotism, and public honor.
These statements came from men who did not mean it should fight, who could not in the exigency of the moment be displaced.
The answer was, “As many as the exigency of the occasion may require; but their employment in that direction will only be temporary.
Once in three or four weeks somebody is awakened to the exigency of the situation, and a gang of men is put to work to cleanse the principal thoroughfares, but this serves only a temporary purpose.
Indeed, the insurrection of Trinidad and Cienfuegos (1868) still smoulders, and any extreme political exigency would be liable to cause it to blaze forth with renewed force.
There is here no such exigency in getting in the harvest, leading to the overwork of the slaves, as on a sugar estate in the grinding season.
We were in the Union or out of the Union, as the exigency of the occasion required.
They now ordained a despotic policy as being more expedient to run the government, because it could be changed, like a vane on a house top, according to the breath of public opinion or the exigency of the times.
That they rose in the exigency of our affairs, from the efforts of the particular States, at times when the Federal arm could not be extended to their relief?
At this time, the present exigency would be provided for by confirming the laws of Virginia and Maryland, and by giving effect to them by the institution of a competent Judicial authority.
In this exigency he so far receded from his haughty demeanor toward the municipal authorities as to seek an interview with the selectmen.
To meet such an exigency in the renewed conflict, two men stood together behind a tree, and, while one fired, the other awaited the approach of the savage with his tomahawk, and felled him with his bullet.
There is no such exigency now, and this Sunday morning debate is instituted simply to secure an adjournment of Congress on Monday.
The Senate has on former occasions sat Sunday morning, but it was under the exigency of the Constitution, which brought the session to a close on the 4th of March.
And these powers, vast as they are, when called into activity by the exigency of war or rebellion, become as constitutional as if specified precisely in a written text.
It is to meet theexigency of the hour; and on this account precisely I am ready to follow the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, in opposing the proposition of the Senator from Kansas.
They are talkers who must say something for the delight of hearing themselves; or they are writers who live under the exigency of needing to get "something different" daily into print.
They have "muddled along" into precisely the institutions that suit any exigency, their sanest political philosophers recognizing that the exigency must always be most amenable to the most flexible system.
The unvarying dimensions of the arena respond to a double necessity: the exigency of the man and the exigency of the animal.
And there we are always met, at the very threshold, with this objection: "A naval force requires much time to get it into readiness, and the exigency will be past before the preparation can be completed.
In the Message out of which the report before you has sprung, not the slightest doubt is discoverable of the efficiency of our institutions to sustain us under every exigency that may overtake us.
The exigency was produced by the gentlemen on the opposite side, and they should be held responsible for it.
But the senator may not be willing to yield to this example, this case in point, drawn from his own fountain, and precisely up to the exigency of the occasion.
What the exigency required, he knew; what the exigency exacted, he performed.
But when you said political exigency you said a whole lot--and we'll let this particular skunk cabbage go under that name.
Totten, thisexigency is now working under a full head of steam.
The exigency of this debate does not require me to survey the whole range of productive industry of the country, and to suggest a comparative system of imposts adjusted to them all.
By the act of 1795 the power of deciding whether the exigency has arisen upon which the government of the United States is bound to interfere is given to the President.
Other companies will be designated and assigned to duty as the public exigency may necessitate.
