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... opposition and resistance was enkindled and kept burning . 4. The requirement of direct trade with the English markets . 5. Taxation without representation . The Tax Bill of 1764 provided for taxing the colonies in order to raise " a ...
... opposition and resistance was enkindled and kept burning . 4. The requirement of direct trade with the English markets . 5. Taxation without representation . The Tax Bill of 1764 provided for taxing the colonies in order to raise " a ...
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... oppose the onward march of Pitcairn in defense of their liberties . The British grenadiers then pushed on to Concord and destroyed the stores ; but on their way back to Boston they were fired upon by the aroused people , and if they had ...
... oppose the onward march of Pitcairn in defense of their liberties . The British grenadiers then pushed on to Concord and destroyed the stores ; but on their way back to Boston they were fired upon by the aroused people , and if they had ...
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... opposition to the new form of government , and the votes of adoption were tardily given , yet it received the required two - thirds ratification within the year of its submission to the people , and to New Hamp- shire belongs the honor ...
... opposition to the new form of government , and the votes of adoption were tardily given , yet it received the required two - thirds ratification within the year of its submission to the people , and to New Hamp- shire belongs the honor ...
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... opposed , but finally prevailed by a vote of 31 to 26 . February 11 , The Friends and Quakers in sev- eral States sent a petition to Congress , praying for the abolition of the Slave trade . February 12. The Pennsylvania Society for pro ...
... opposed , but finally prevailed by a vote of 31 to 26 . February 11 , The Friends and Quakers in sev- eral States sent a petition to Congress , praying for the abolition of the Slave trade . February 12. The Pennsylvania Society for pro ...
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... opposed to the act , regarding the measure as unconstitutional , and as conferring a dangerous and corrupting power upon the govern- ment . Hamilton and Knox gave their written opin- ion , at a Cabinet meeting , in favor of the ...
... opposed to the act , regarding the measure as unconstitutional , and as conferring a dangerous and corrupting power upon the govern- ment . Hamilton and Knox gave their written opin- ion , at a Cabinet meeting , in favor of the ...
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Page 263 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 247 - ... it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 233 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 285 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 115 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 265 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 265 - These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 223 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Page 266 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 260 - 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...