Reports of the Select Committee of Five, on the Following Subjects, Band 5 |
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... presents questions un- surpassed in importance by any ever presented to this or any other government . It becomes a question of existence to the government , and involves not only the happiness of the 31,000,000 of our own present ...
... presents questions un- surpassed in importance by any ever presented to this or any other government . It becomes a question of existence to the government , and involves not only the happiness of the 31,000,000 of our own present ...
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... present emergency that " the duties of the government become the measure of its powers . And whenever it fails to exer- cise the power necessary and proper to the discharge of the duty pre- scribed by the Constitution , it violates the ...
... present emergency that " the duties of the government become the measure of its powers . And whenever it fails to exer- cise the power necessary and proper to the discharge of the duty pre- scribed by the Constitution , it violates the ...
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... present form for seventy - two years ; and if treason has been fes- tering for more than forty years of that time , it will hardly do to attribute the present difficulties to the state of public sentiment in the other portion of the ...
... present form for seventy - two years ; and if treason has been fes- tering for more than forty years of that time , it will hardly do to attribute the present difficulties to the state of public sentiment in the other portion of the ...
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... it must be the sole guide of every department of the government in meeting the present emergency . Studiously avoiding the exercise of all new or doubtful powers in legislation , all approaches SEIZURE OF FORTS , ARSENALS , ETC. 7.
... it must be the sole guide of every department of the government in meeting the present emergency . Studiously avoiding the exercise of all new or doubtful powers in legislation , all approaches SEIZURE OF FORTS , ARSENALS , ETC. 7.
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... present population , and of all that are to come after us . The great feature of our system is , that the people make the laws , and that they obey the laws which they themselves have made . Hence " the government will appeal to that ...
... present population , and of all that are to come after us . The great feature of our system is , that the people make the laws , and that they obey the laws which they themselves have made . Hence " the government will appeal to that ...
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12th instant a. m. to-morrow amendment arms ARNOLD ELZEY arsenal authorities of South bill Captain Chairman laid Cochrane committee met pursuant communication Congress Constitution convention copy Crittenden compromise custom-house Dawes December December 29 deem demand duty existing F. C. Humphreys favor February federal government following papers following witness Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts harbor of Charleston hereby honor House of Representatives HOWARD ISAAC TOUCEY JAMES BUCHANAN January January 24 JOHN SLIDELL letter Major Anderson members present ment military militia MOUNT VERNON ARSENAL navy yard obedient servant ordinance of secession Ordnance office papers were received person Petition of citizens possession President proposition protection public property pursuant to adjournment question re-enforcements referred reply request respectfully revenue cutter revenue laws Reynolds seceded Secretary Secretary of War seized senators ship or vessel South Carolina Sumter surrender thereof tion Treasury Union United vessel and cargo WILLIAM AIKEN
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Seite 15 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 37 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Seite 16 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Seite 4 - INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Seite 38 - that in all cases of insurrection or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States or of any individual State or Territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection or of causing the...
Seite 15 - An ordinance, to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her, under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America.
Seite 5 - States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 19 - I would have done had I entered into a positive and formal agreement with parties capable of contracting, although such an agreement would have been, on my part, from the nature of my official duties, impossible. The world knows that I have never sent any reinforcements to the forts in Charleston Harbor, and I have certainly never authorized any change to be made " in their relative military status.
Seite 16 - Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the public debt, and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States as agent of the confederated States of which South Carolina was recently a member; and generally to negotiate as to all other measures and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this Commonwealth and the Government at Washington.
Seite 20 - Under these circumstances it is clear that Major Anderson acted upon his own responsibility, and without authority, unless, indeed, he had " tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act" on the part of the authorities of South Carolina, which has not yet been alleged.