The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration; and an Appendix Containing the Principal Political Facts of the Campaign of 1864, a Chapter on the Church and the Rebellion, and the Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress |
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... WHEREAS , the Constitution of the United States is a grant of specific powers delegated to the Federal Govern- ment by the people of the several States , all powers not delegated to it nor prohibited to the States being reserved to the ...
... WHEREAS , the Constitution of the United States is a grant of specific powers delegated to the Federal Govern- ment by the people of the several States , all powers not delegated to it nor prohibited to the States being reserved to the ...
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... Whereas , by the act of Congress approved on the 9th of September , in the year 1850 , it was provided that the people of New Mexico , when admitted as a State , shall be received into the Union with or without slavery , as their ...
... Whereas , by the act of Congress approved on the 9th of September , in the year 1850 , it was provided that the people of New Mexico , when admitted as a State , shall be received into the Union with or without slavery , as their ...
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... WHEREAS , serious and alarming dissensions have arisen between the Northern and Southern States , concerning the rights and security of the rights of the slaveholding States , and especially their rights in the common territory of the ...
... WHEREAS , serious and alarming dissensions have arisen between the Northern and Southern States , concerning the rights and security of the rights of the slaveholding States , and especially their rights in the common territory of the ...
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... whereas , also , besides these causes of dissension em- braced in the foregoing amendments proposed to the Con- stitution of the United States , there are others which come within the jurisdiction of Congress , and may be remedied by ...
... whereas , also , besides these causes of dissension em- braced in the foregoing amendments proposed to the Con- stitution of the United States , there are others which come within the jurisdiction of Congress , and may be remedied by ...
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... Whereas the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land , and Potter , E. R. Reynolds , Sedgwick . Spinner , Tappan , Vande NAYS - Messrs . Alley , Carey , Edwards , Eliot , Hutchins , ver , Washburn of Wisconsin ...
... Whereas the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land , and Potter , E. R. Reynolds , Sedgwick . Spinner , Tappan , Vande NAYS - Messrs . Alley , Carey , Edwards , Eliot , Hutchins , ver , Washburn of Wisconsin ...
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Page 109 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 231 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 226 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 336 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 108 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 148 - I may add at this point that, while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 73 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 180 - 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 229 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 107 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that " the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?