Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1869 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... held in each county in the State on Monday , the 31st day of August next , in the manner provided by the laws of Alabama on the 11th day of January , 1861 ; but no person can vote in said election , or be a candidate for election , who ...
... held in each county in the State on Monday , the 31st day of August next , in the manner provided by the laws of Alabama on the 11th day of January , 1861 ; but no person can vote in said election , or be a candidate for election , who ...
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... held in each county in the State on Monday , the 31st day of August next , in the manner provided by the laws of Alabama on the 11th day of January , 1861 ; but no person can vote in said election , or be a candidate for election , who ...
... held in each county in the State on Monday , the 31st day of August next , in the manner provided by the laws of Alabama on the 11th day of January , 1861 ; but no person can vote in said election , or be a candidate for election , who ...
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... held in the neighborhood of Mobile , on Sunday , August 13th , of which the " Adver- tiser " of that city gave the following report : Nine hundred of them assembled to consider their condition , their rights and duties under the new ...
... held in the neighborhood of Mobile , on Sunday , August 13th , of which the " Adver- tiser " of that city gave the following report : Nine hundred of them assembled to consider their condition , their rights and duties under the new ...
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... held to a strict accountability for improper persons admitted into the service through their connivance ; and that all desert- ers from the military or naval service " shall be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit ...
... held to a strict accountability for improper persons admitted into the service through their connivance ; and that all desert- ers from the military or naval service " shall be forever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit ...
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... held by the Confederate cavalry under General Wheeler , who had , with details of negro laborers , felled trees , burned bridges , and made obstructions to impede this march . The pioneer battalions , however , were so well organized ...
... held by the Confederate cavalry under General Wheeler , who had , with details of negro laborers , felled trees , burned bridges , and made obstructions to impede this march . The pioneer battalions , however , were so well organized ...
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Page 200 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 244 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 173 - Where one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third, he, by whose negligence it happened, must be the sufferer.
Page 257 - The person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person...
Page 391 - I, , do solemnly swear or (affirm), in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God.
Page 237 - ... shall suffer death, or such other punishment ~as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial. ART. 53. Any person belonging to the armies of the United States...
Page 63 - I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
Page 300 - ... of one year next preceding, and in the town in which he may offer himself to be admitted to the privileges of an elector, at least six months next preceding the time he may so offer himself...
Page 212 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 68 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.