The Voter's Text Book, Comprising a Collection of the Most Important Documents and Statistics, Connected with the Political History of AmericaAsher, Adams & Higgins, 1868 - 382 σελίδες |
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... Union March 3d , 1845. It is a highly prosperous State , having a vast extent of rich soil and excellent pasturage . It is faithful to the Union ... death , to his son , Stephen , was sub- sequently enlarged by a further grant . Emigration ...
... Union March 3d , 1845. It is a highly prosperous State , having a vast extent of rich soil and excellent pasturage . It is faithful to the Union ... death , to his son , Stephen , was sub- sequently enlarged by a further grant . Emigration ...
Σελίδα 188
... death of President Harrison , and expressing his profound sensibility of the ... lost for lack of a constitutional majority . But the friends of a national bank ... Union , which was strongly resisted at the North , on the ground that the ...
... death of President Harrison , and expressing his profound sensibility of the ... lost for lack of a constitutional majority . But the friends of a national bank ... Union , which was strongly resisted at the North , on the ground that the ...
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James M. Hiatt. commendation . Upon the sudden death of Gen. Taylor , he became President , and promptly selected a cabinet , distin- guished for its ability , patriotism , and devotion to the Union , and possessing , in an eminent ...
James M. Hiatt. commendation . Upon the sudden death of Gen. Taylor , he became President , and promptly selected a cabinet , distin- guished for its ability , patriotism , and devotion to the Union , and possessing , in an eminent ...
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... drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be repaid by an- other drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ... Union . But while the storm lulled , the assassin did his work . J. Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on the night ...
... drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be repaid by an- other drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ... Union . But while the storm lulled , the assassin did his work . J. Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on the night ...
Σελίδα 227
... Union loss two killed . The steamers Freeborn and Anacosto engage the batteries at Acquia Creek the second time . Skirmish at Williamsport , Maryland , between the rebels and a company of Home Guards . JUNE 3. - Colonel Kelly defeated ...
... Union loss two killed . The steamers Freeborn and Anacosto engage the batteries at Acquia Creek the second time . Skirmish at Williamsport , Maryland , between the rebels and a company of Home Guards . JUNE 3. - Colonel Kelly defeated ...
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Σελίδα 19 - States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside; provided, that no person be allowed to serve In the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public...
Σελίδα 54 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Σελίδα 21 - The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of congress, such of the powers of congress as the united states in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from, time to time think expedient to vest them with...
Σελίδα 51 - 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 frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Σελίδα 289 - States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the...
Σελίδα 90 - ... shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Σελίδα 52 - Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Σελίδα 20 - ... armed and equipped in the same manner as the quota of such State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spared out of the same, in which case they shall raise, officer, clothe, arm and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared...
Σελίδα 99 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Σελίδα 57 - A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories...