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... adopted , and proposed to carry out , the policy of his predecessor ; but it will be seen that he had a policy of his own , and that the plan of the Republican President was more liberal and comprehensive than that of his Democratic ...
... adopted , and proposed to carry out , the policy of his predecessor ; but it will be seen that he had a policy of his own , and that the plan of the Republican President was more liberal and comprehensive than that of his Democratic ...
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... adopted for the solution of these issues by military force and civil power should be studied from a non - partisan point of view , in order to reach just conclusions . For nearly a quarter of a century the writer has been no inactive ...
... adopted for the solution of these issues by military force and civil power should be studied from a non - partisan point of view , in order to reach just conclusions . For nearly a quarter of a century the writer has been no inactive ...
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... ADOPTED BY HIM- CRITICISMS OF HIS PARTY -MR . LIN- COLN'S MODERATE VIEWS NEGRO SUFFRAGE PROPOSED TREME MEASURES DEVELOPING - AUTHOR'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN , PAGES 337-345 - - - --- EX- CHAPTER XVIII . PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S POLICY OF ...
... ADOPTED BY HIM- CRITICISMS OF HIS PARTY -MR . LIN- COLN'S MODERATE VIEWS NEGRO SUFFRAGE PROPOSED TREME MEASURES DEVELOPING - AUTHOR'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN , PAGES 337-345 - - - --- EX- CHAPTER XVIII . PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S POLICY OF ...
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... adopted a Constitution which contained the Jeffersonian declaration that liberty was an inalienable right . A distinguished Democrat of that state , Theodore Sedg- wick , raised the point , which after eight years of litigation was ...
... adopted a Constitution which contained the Jeffersonian declaration that liberty was an inalienable right . A distinguished Democrat of that state , Theodore Sedg- wick , raised the point , which after eight years of litigation was ...
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... adopted by the party convention at Cin- cinnati in 1856. They added to it a declaration of readiness to acquiesce in the decisions of the Supreme Court . This platform was far from giving satisfaction to the South . Public sentiment in ...
... adopted by the party convention at Cin- cinnati in 1856. They added to it a declaration of readiness to acquiesce in the decisions of the Supreme Court . This platform was far from giving satisfaction to the South . Public sentiment in ...
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Page 242 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 340 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 102 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion...
Page 117 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 352 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 375 - Under this article of the constitution it rests with congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, congress -must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
Page 103 - ... that the several states •who formed that Instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...
Page 616 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!
Page 161 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of...
Page 108 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the " United States of America,