The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1865 |
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... Constitution as it is , and not as it has been falsely interpreted , and for the Union as it was before it was taken possession of by slaveholding tyrants . " The amendment was adopted - yeas , 91 ; nays , 80 . In the Senate , on Dec ...
... Constitution as it is , and not as it has been falsely interpreted , and for the Union as it was before it was taken possession of by slaveholding tyrants . " The amendment was adopted - yeas , 91 ; nays , 80 . In the Senate , on Dec ...
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... Constitution of the United States , either to the legis- lative or executive power , to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus in any state loyal to the Constitution and Government not invaded , and in which the civil and ...
... Constitution of the United States , either to the legis- lative or executive power , to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus in any state loyal to the Constitution and Government not invaded , and in which the civil and ...
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... Constitution of the United States . " The power assumed in that act was merely to prescribe the form of the oath required by the Constitution , by legislation , and that power is not questioned . I cannot doubt that as re- gards members ...
... Constitution of the United States . " The power assumed in that act was merely to prescribe the form of the oath required by the Constitution , by legislation , and that power is not questioned . I cannot doubt that as re- gards members ...
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... Constitution . This question became a subject of inquiry early in the history of the country , on the impeachment of William Blount by the House of Representatives in the year 1798 ; and it was decided then by the Senate on a plea to ...
... Constitution . This question became a subject of inquiry early in the history of the country , on the impeachment of William Blount by the House of Representatives in the year 1798 ; and it was decided then by the Senate on a plea to ...
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... Constitution did not amount to any correction . All those men had that oath on them , and it furnished no sufficient security . The Constitution provided that a man should have certain qualifications in order to be ad- mitted as a ...
... Constitution did not amount to any correction . All those men had that oath on them , and it furnished no sufficient security . The Constitution provided that a man should have certain qualifications in order to be ad- mitted as a ...
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Seite 310 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
Seite 330 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 197 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Seite 332 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Seite 253 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present,...
Seite 150 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Seite 330 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Seite 273 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Seite 233 - That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.
Seite 67 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.