Financial and Political Affairs of the Country: Being a Series of Communications on Various Topics, to the "Hudson Gazette," During the Years 1876-79, Volumes 1-4M. P. Williams, 1879 - Slavery |
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Page 417 - The Executive authority of the Government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war...
Page 416 - 3. The recognition, by the Executive of the United States of the several State governments, on their officers and legislatures taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States...
Page 394 - twas all about,' Young Peterkin, he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; 'Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Page 406 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. And read their...
Page 417 - ... 7. In general terms, the war to cease, a general amnesty, so far as the executive of the United States can command, on condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of the arms, and the resumption of peaceful pursuits by the officers and men hitherto composing said armies.
Page 156 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell unwept without a crime — Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe. Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career. Hope for a season bade the world farewell And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell.
Page 388 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 416 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State Arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.
Page 98 - That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans, while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal metropolis show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded.
Page 416 - Legislatures taking the oaths prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, and, where conflicting State governments have resulted from the war, the legitimacy of all shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.