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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... True Policy of the Democracy ; Sian- ton's Brain an Addle Egg ; a Collar to Choke Liars ; Senator Grimes ; Shoddyocratic So- ciety in Washington ; A Tax on Dirty Linen in the U. S. Senate ; The Shadow of Death ; Jenkins in Boston ; An ...
... True Policy of the Democracy ; Sian- ton's Brain an Addle Egg ; a Collar to Choke Liars ; Senator Grimes ; Shoddyocratic So- ciety in Washington ; A Tax on Dirty Linen in the U. S. Senate ; The Shadow of Death ; Jenkins in Boston ; An ...
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... True Author of War ; A Mysterious Man ; The Intention of Lincoln ; Peace and War Papers ; The Fond Du Lac Press ; The Draft ; Montesquieu on Demo- cracy ; A Poem of Dean Swift's ; Meade to Lee ; Going to Canada ; The Old Guard for 1863 ...
... True Author of War ; A Mysterious Man ; The Intention of Lincoln ; Peace and War Papers ; The Fond Du Lac Press ; The Draft ; Montesquieu on Demo- cracy ; A Poem of Dean Swift's ; Meade to Lee ; Going to Canada ; The Old Guard for 1863 ...
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... true policy was to have gone out cla- rion - tongued against the Administra- tion - telling the whole truth , in the strongest language - that this war is for the negro - that it is impossible to save the Union by war - that the war is ...
... true policy was to have gone out cla- rion - tongued against the Administra- tion - telling the whole truth , in the strongest language - that this war is for the negro - that it is impossible to save the Union by war - that the war is ...
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... true , ( and who dares to ques- tion it ? ) that sovereignty is inaliena- ble , it follows , of course , that these delegated powers may be revoked , and the sovereign communities that made . may unmake the " Union , " as far as they ...
... true , ( and who dares to ques- tion it ? ) that sovereignty is inaliena- ble , it follows , of course , that these delegated powers may be revoked , and the sovereign communities that made . may unmake the " Union , " as far as they ...
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... True , the sectional , or " anti - slave- ry " party believed that they under- stood what was best for the people of the South , and though from Mr Lincoln down to Garrison , there was not one of their leaders that would not prefer ...
... True , the sectional , or " anti - slave- ry " party believed that they under- stood what was best for the people of the South , and though from Mr Lincoln down to Garrison , there was not one of their leaders that would not prefer ...
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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...