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... President of the United States is the following : George Hayes , Abigail Dibble . Sarah Lee . Rebecca Russell . Daniel Hayes , Ezekiel Hayes , Rutherford Hayes , Chloe Smith . Rutherford Hayes , Sophia Birchard . The earlier family ...
... President of the United States is the following : George Hayes , Abigail Dibble . Sarah Lee . Rebecca Russell . Daniel Hayes , Ezekiel Hayes , Rutherford Hayes , Chloe Smith . Rutherford Hayes , Sophia Birchard . The earlier family ...
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... - minutely describing eclipses , floods , and storms - and , while moralizing over the inauguration and death of President Harrison , giving expression to the shadowy hope that wise and good men would take the helm ANCESTRY . 11.
... - minutely describing eclipses , floods , and storms - and , while moralizing over the inauguration and death of President Harrison , giving expression to the shadowy hope that wise and good men would take the helm ANCESTRY . 11.
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... President of the College , who fell in the war for the Union , and the Hon . Guy M. Bryan , late member of Congress , and present speaker of the Texas House of Representatives , who , although en- gaged in the rebellion , has paid a ...
... President of the College , who fell in the war for the Union , and the Hon . Guy M. Bryan , late member of Congress , and present speaker of the Texas House of Representatives , who , although en- gaged in the rebellion , has paid a ...
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... president judge of the criminal court , who thereupon appointed the modest young attorney counsel for Nancy Farrer , whose case became the great criminal case of the term , if not of the times . 66 Nancy Farrer had poisoned all the ...
... president judge of the criminal court , who thereupon appointed the modest young attorney counsel for Nancy Farrer , whose case became the great criminal case of the term , if not of the times . 66 Nancy Farrer had poisoned all the ...
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... President and the department for your great battle and brilliant victory of yesterday . " An official report of Colonel Comly , commanding the Twenty - third Ohio , thus re- fers to Colonel Hayes , division commander : " He is ...
... President and the department for your great battle and brilliant victory of yesterday . " An official report of Colonel Comly , commanding the Twenty - third Ohio , thus re- fers to Colonel Hayes , division commander : " He is ...
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Page 254 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 177 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 189 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 52 - Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
Page 224 - The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State. It seems to me very desirable that this question should be settled now, and I entertain the hope and express the desire that it may be by the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendment to the Constitution.
Page 167 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 230 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.
Page 187 - My own opinion is that the trial of a white man for the murder of a freedman in Texas would be a farce, and in making this statement I make it because truth compels me, and for no other reason.
Page 207 - General Sheridan has performed his civil duties faithfully and intelligently. His removal will only be regarded as an effort to defeat the laws of Congress.
Page 110 - Shall there be a convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution,' shall be submitted to the electors of the State; and...