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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... four hun- dred dollars in circulating notes ; with these he buys as much more stock , and receives four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars more notes , with which he again buys stock . This process , repeated seven times , gives the ...
... four hun- dred dollars in circulating notes ; with these he buys as much more stock , and receives four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars more notes , with which he again buys stock . This process , repeated seven times , gives the ...
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... four hundred and forty - six thousand against him . Now , although three quarters of the citizens of these States are kept from voting by Lincoln's bayonets , they are net kept from think- ing , hating , and cherishing an all - ab ...
... four hundred and forty - six thousand against him . Now , although three quarters of the citizens of these States are kept from voting by Lincoln's bayonets , they are net kept from think- ing , hating , and cherishing an all - ab ...
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... four already - Swayne , Davis , Miller , and Field . But it seems they must somehow have three more , in order to receive no check to their abominations . Seward threatened years ago that if ever they got power , they would remodel the ...
... four already - Swayne , Davis , Miller , and Field . But it seems they must somehow have three more , in order to receive no check to their abominations . Seward threatened years ago that if ever they got power , they would remodel the ...
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... four hundred millions of francs of paper , on the credit of the Government . Wise men in France shook their heads , and warned the National Assembly that they would bring financial ruin both upon the Government and the people . But they ...
... four hundred millions of francs of paper , on the credit of the Government . Wise men in France shook their heads , and warned the National Assembly that they would bring financial ruin both upon the Government and the people . But they ...
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... four millions of negroes in our system , be the Union , or have any re- semblance whatever to the grand old Union of our fathers ? On the con- trary , would it not be the rule of a northern oligarchy , and worse , a mil- lion times ...
... four millions of negroes in our system , be the Union , or have any re- semblance whatever to the grand old Union of our fathers ? On the con- trary , would it not be the rule of a northern oligarchy , and worse , a mil- lion times ...
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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...