The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787, Volume 2C. Chauncey Burr & Company, 1864 - United States |
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... Crimes ; Let us Boast no more of Freedom ; The Presi⚫ dent Nominating Members of Congress ; A Suit of Old Clothes for John A. Dix ; The " Undertakers " a Good Business ; Note to Subscribers . NOVEMBER . .237 History of Northern ...
... Crimes ; Let us Boast no more of Freedom ; The Presi⚫ dent Nominating Members of Congress ; A Suit of Old Clothes for John A. Dix ; The " Undertakers " a Good Business ; Note to Subscribers . NOVEMBER . .237 History of Northern ...
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... crimes ? That will be the question over which the mind of the historian will stumble and flounder . To seek for an explana- tion of the brutalizing absurdity in the patriotism of the people , will only lead the enquirer further from the ...
... crimes ? That will be the question over which the mind of the historian will stumble and flounder . To seek for an explana- tion of the brutalizing absurdity in the patriotism of the people , will only lead the enquirer further from the ...
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... crimes of this Administration , but dare not venture upon the full measure of truth and justice against it : Justum & tenacem propositi virum , Noncivium Ador prova jubentium , Non vultus instantis TyrannI Mente quatit solida , neque ...
... crimes of this Administration , but dare not venture upon the full measure of truth and justice against it : Justum & tenacem propositi virum , Noncivium Ador prova jubentium , Non vultus instantis TyrannI Mente quatit solida , neque ...
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... crimes of his own mo- tion . The moment Mr. Lincoln is left to be dealt with according to law , every man whose slaves he has turned loose by special order , may arrest and pun- ish him for his lawless deeds . This is the law ; and ...
... crimes of his own mo- tion . The moment Mr. Lincoln is left to be dealt with according to law , every man whose slaves he has turned loose by special order , may arrest and pun- ish him for his lawless deeds . This is the law ; and ...
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... crimes to the notice and knowledge of the people , in a shape easily comprehended , and would aid very much in fixing and deepening the public conviction that the President has no Constitutional right to employ an army , even against a ...
... crimes to the notice and knowledge of the people , in a shape easily comprehended , and would aid very much in fixing and deepening the public conviction that the President has no Constitutional right to employ an army , even against a ...
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Page 86 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 224 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 240 - ... Potomac ; and it was thought that by giving it to Philadelphia for ten years, and to Georgetown permanently afterwards, this might, as an anodyne, calm in some degree the ferment which might be excited by the other measure ] alone. So two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive,) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point. In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the...
Page 224 - President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 149 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 194 - The Constitution of the United States was formed by the sanction of the States, given by each in its sovereign capacity.
Page 250 - ... all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.
Page 253 - Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury- or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby, remains with them and at their will...
Page 55 - The States, then, being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them, be violated ; and, consequently, that, as the parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.
Page 251 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation...