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... nearly all that the North had claimed in the controversy . The bill , as passed , rejected the Land Ordinance contained in the Lecompton Constitution , and proposed a substitute . Kansas was to be admitted into the Union on an equal ...
... nearly all that the North had claimed in the controversy . The bill , as passed , rejected the Land Ordinance contained in the Lecompton Constitution , and proposed a substitute . Kansas was to be admitted into the Union on an equal ...
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... nearly three years afterwards- just as the Southern States were going out of it . She came in under an anti - slavery constitution , and Mr. Buchanan signed the bill of admission . The discussions of the Kansas question , as summed in ...
... nearly three years afterwards- just as the Southern States were going out of it . She came in under an anti - slavery constitution , and Mr. Buchanan signed the bill of admission . The discussions of the Kansas question , as summed in ...
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... nearly two months in a factious and fanatical spirit , produced a deep impression on the minds of Southern members and of their constituents . The early dissolution of the Union had come to be a subject freely canvassed among members of ...
... nearly two months in a factious and fanatical spirit , produced a deep impression on the minds of Southern members and of their constituents . The early dissolution of the Union had come to be a subject freely canvassed among members of ...
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... nearly a million of votes . During the canvass , the North had been distinctly warned by the conservative parties of the country , that the election of Lincoln by a strictly sectional vote would be taken as a decla- ration of war ...
... nearly a million of votes . During the canvass , the North had been distinctly warned by the conservative parties of the country , that the election of Lincoln by a strictly sectional vote would be taken as a decla- ration of war ...
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... nearly completed as to admit the introduction of its armament . The walls were of solid brick and concrete masonry , sixty feet high and from eight to twelve feet in thickness , and pierced for three tiers of guns on the northern ...
... nearly completed as to admit the introduction of its armament . The walls were of solid brick and concrete masonry , sixty feet high and from eight to twelve feet in thickness , and pierced for three tiers of guns on the northern ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 370 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 360 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 362 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Page 357 - No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Page 360 - Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills. 2 Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large...
Page 358 - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Page 359 - House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Page 54 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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...
Page 369 - The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Page 362 - To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.