Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... ........................................................................................... ..... 473 The Tennessee Test Oath ................................... ................................................................
... ........................................................................................... ..... 473 The Tennessee Test Oath ................................... ................................................................
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... oath to support the Constitution , would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition . " Again , George Washington , another of the ' thirty - nine , ' was then President of the United States , and , as such , ap- proved and signed ...
... oath to support the Constitution , would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition . " Again , George Washington , another of the ' thirty - nine , ' was then President of the United States , and , as such , ap- proved and signed ...
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... oaths , acted upon the very question which the text affirms they ' understood just as well , and even better than we do now ; and twenty - one of them - a clear majority of the ' thirty - nine - so acting upon it as to make them guilty ...
... oaths , acted upon the very question which the text affirms they ' understood just as well , and even better than we do now ; and twenty - one of them - a clear majority of the ' thirty - nine - so acting upon it as to make them guilty ...
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... oaths , is , in fact , so clearly wrong as to demand your condemnation without a moment's consideration . " Some of you delight to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by Washington in his Farewell Address ...
... oaths , is , in fact , so clearly wrong as to demand your condemnation without a moment's consideration . " Some of you delight to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by Washington in his Farewell Address ...
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... oath of office from Chief Justice Taney . Then followed , in a clear , steady tone of voice , in the presence of ́more than ten thousand of his fellow - citizens , the address : " FELLOW - CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES : -In compliance ...
... oath of office from Chief Justice Taney . Then followed , in a clear , steady tone of voice , in the presence of ́more than ten thousand of his fellow - citizens , the address : " FELLOW - CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES : -In compliance ...
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