A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention: For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861D. Appleton, 1864 - 626 Seiten |
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... important measures before Congress and awaiting its action , any proposition of real importance emanat- ing from this Conference could be properly considered by either House in this short time ? I am assuming just now that this is a ...
... important measures before Congress and awaiting its action , any proposition of real importance emanat- ing from this Conference could be properly considered by either House in this short time ? I am assuming just now that this is a ...
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... important to the permanency of your felicity as a people . These will be offered to you with more freedom , as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend , who can possibly have no personal motive to bias ...
... important to the permanency of your felicity as a people . These will be offered to you with more freedom , as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend , who can possibly have no personal motive to bias ...
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... important issues now before us , I prefer to have our action , our words , our whole conduct , all that we do and say , open and public . We should fear no criticism when we are right ; we ought RESOLUTION FOR A REPORTER . 75 ELEVENTH ...
... important issues now before us , I prefer to have our action , our words , our whole conduct , all that we do and say , open and public . We should fear no criticism when we are right ; we ought RESOLUTION FOR A REPORTER . 75 ELEVENTH ...
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... important portion of a continent , among a people now numbering over thirty millions , diversities of opinion ... importance , and that the Constitution , which expresses the combined wisdom of the illustrious founders of MR . TUCK'S ...
... important portion of a continent , among a people now numbering over thirty millions , diversities of opinion ... importance , and that the Constitution , which expresses the combined wisdom of the illustrious founders of MR . TUCK'S ...
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... Maryland . Mr. JOHNSON : -I trust that I shall not trespass upon the time of the Conference , but the subject now before it is one of great importance , and it involves the consideration of many 82 VOTE ON REID'S AMENDMENT .
... Maryland . Mr. JOHNSON : -I trust that I shall not trespass upon the time of the Conference , but the subject now before it is one of great importance , and it involves the consideration of many 82 VOTE ON REID'S AMENDMENT .
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Seite 171 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 61 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the...
Seite 67 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like...
Seite 67 - It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal...
Seite 67 - Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety: discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned and indignantly...
Seite 219 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 458 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its...
Seite 226 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Seite 530 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Seite 217 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...