A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty HallThis book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War. |
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... GOVERNOR BROWN'S POSITION - THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF THE WAR THUS FAR - THE ABO- LITION OF SLAVERY - THE ADOPTION OF THE XIIITH AMENDMENT , BUT NO ESSENTIAL FEATURE IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM AS YET AFFECTED -TENDENCIES TO ULTIMATE CENTRALISM ...
... GOVERNOR BROWN'S POSITION - THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF THE WAR THUS FAR - THE ABO- LITION OF SLAVERY - THE ADOPTION OF THE XIIITH AMENDMENT , BUT NO ESSENTIAL FEATURE IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM AS YET AFFECTED -TENDENCIES TO ULTIMATE CENTRALISM ...
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... Governor Pickens , in behalf of the Sovereign Rights of the State , demanded its possession of Major Anderson for the use of the State . On his refusal to deliver it up , the Governor immediately sent I. W. Hayne , the Attorney General ...
... Governor Pickens , in behalf of the Sovereign Rights of the State , demanded its possession of Major Anderson for the use of the State . On his refusal to deliver it up , the Governor immediately sent I. W. Hayne , the Attorney General ...
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... Governors of Maine , New York , and Ohio , had refused to deliver up fugitives from justice , who had been charged with a breach of the laws of the Southern States , in matters relating to the status of the Black race . MAJOR HEISTER ...
... Governors of Maine , New York , and Ohio , had refused to deliver up fugitives from justice , who had been charged with a breach of the laws of the Southern States , in matters relating to the status of the Black race . MAJOR HEISTER ...
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... Governor of South Carolina , under date the 6th of July , 1824 , with the expression of a hope , on the part of the President , that " the inconvenience complained of , would be remedied by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina ...
... Governor of South Carolina , under date the 6th of July , 1824 , with the expression of a hope , on the part of the President , that " the inconvenience complained of , would be remedied by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina ...
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... Governor . This presented a new view of the subject ; and so the mat- ter rested for a time . If the British Government took any further action on the subject , I am not aware of it . No case was carried to the Supreme Court of the ...
... Governor . This presented a new view of the subject ; and so the mat- ter rested for a time . If the British Government took any further action on the subject , I am not aware of it . No case was carried to the Supreme Court of the ...
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Page 726 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Page 715 - ... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 776 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 168 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 82 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 720 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 672 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 723 - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Page 149 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 776 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...