It is said that in consequence of this measure he met with the greatest trouble of his life.
Both houses took fire at this measure, which, from a similar instance, while the bill of attainder against Strafford was in dependence, Charles might foresee would be received with resentment.
Senator Cutten is recorded twice against this bill, it being necessary, in justice to all the Senators, to give both the votes taken on this measure.
Senator Kennedy is scarcely entitled to credit for being recorded on the right side of this measure.
Up to that date the writer honestly believes that not two minutes had been devoted to public discussion of this measure, although the Stetson bill had been discussed paragraph by paragraph, line by line, every word weighed carefully.
One of the best witnesses to the viciousness of this measure is Governor Gillett, surely an unprejudiced observer.
I put it home to the honorable member from South Carolina, that his own State was not only "art and part" in this measure, but the causa causans.
This measure, however, appears principally important, as it was the first of a series, and was followed afterwards by others of a more marked and practical nature.
Certainly, Sir, I see no possible connection, myself, between their principles or opinions, and the support of this measure.
Yet, instead of proposing benefits for it in this hour of its depression, we threaten by this measure to lay upon it new and heavy burdens.
When that is done, and when order is restored, and permanent protection is guaranteed to all the citizens of that section of the country, this measure will be abrogated and abandoned.
The dread alternative between its harsh rule and compliance with the terms of this measure is not suspended, nor are the people afforded any time for free deliberation.
The effect of this measure on politics has been so well described by the distinguished Senator from Indiana that I need not comment upon that branch of the subject.
Great errors, I think, exist in the minds of both the advocates and the opponents of this measure in their anticipation of the immediate effects to be produced by its adoption.
By this measure, so promptly taken, due respect was shown to the Government of Spain.
A variety of considerations, which will readily suggest themselves, urge an attention to this measure of precaution.
In the legal resistance to this measure, a sentence was uttered by a Boston patriot, James Otis, which became a watchword.
The result of this measure was to smite American commerce with an utter paralysis.
As John paid no regard to this measure of coercion, Innocent declared him deposed, and charged the king of France to carry the sentence into effect (1213).
This measure, dictated by a council of officers, was called Pride's Purge.
This measure, as well as a decree for the banishment of the non-juring clergy, the king refused to sanction.
It may be also added, that Isabella appropriated the first fruits of this measure, by distributing the sum of twenty millions of maravedies among the widows and orphans of those loyalists who had fallen in the War of the Succession.
Alva, furious at this measure, caused sixty of the citizens to be seized, and ordered them to be hanged opposite their own doors.
De Witt and his brother Cornelis, the conscientious but too obstinate opponents of this measure of salvation, fell victims to the popular frenzy.
She only consented to this measure after a long struggle, and with tears in her eyes; and it was with a trembling hand that she wrote an account of these transactions to the king.
The immediate and avowed pretext for this measure was, that the popular societies, who have of late only sent petitions disagreeable to the Convention, did not express the sense of the people.
The Convention formally voted their approbation of this measure, and Collot d'Herbois, in a report on the subject, makes a kind of apostrophical panegyric on the humanity of his colleagues.
Jealousy and fear for some time rendered the Convention averse from the adoption of this measure; but the public opinion was so determined in favour of it, that farther resistance might not have been prudent.
Give me your opinions categorically on this measure.
The greater number of those gentlemen wished me to bring the prisoners before a military commission, that summary judgment might be obtained; but I refused my consent to this measure.
I at first refused my sanction to this measure; but after the charge made against him by Bouvet de Lozier, how could I act otherwise than I did?
The following letter, written by him on the occasion, will show that he was not impelled to this measure by the engagements he had entered into more strongly than by his feelings.
Admitting the proposition that railroad grants can stand on sound principle, it is plain that such can not be the case with concessions to companies like that contemplated by this measure.
It seems also to be evident that the effect of this measure will be to enhance by 70 per cent the cost of blue vitriol--an article extensively used in dyeing and in the manufacture of printed and colored cloths.
I demand to be informed here upon this floor by what power you put your hands into their pockets and drag from them their money to carry out the purposes of this measure.
Of the introduction of this measure, he said it would be done "in view of the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
At a previous stage of the discussion of this measure, Mr. Hale had proposed amendments to the bill.
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