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... duties . Such are messages to Congress transmitting documents which had been requested by that body , executive action , as required by the constitution , on acts of Con- gress , official endorsements of the reports and findings of ...
... duties . Such are messages to Congress transmitting documents which had been requested by that body , executive action , as required by the constitution , on acts of Con- gress , official endorsements of the reports and findings of ...
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... duty of a government is to defend and maintain its own existence . Accordingly , a powerful weapon seemed to be put into the hands of the opposition by the necessity under which the ad- ministration found itself of applying this old ...
... duty of a government is to defend and maintain its own existence . Accordingly , a powerful weapon seemed to be put into the hands of the opposition by the necessity under which the ad- ministration found itself of applying this old ...
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... duty to run straight at all hazards , but cautiously to assure himself with his setting - pole where the main current was , and keep steadily to that . He is still in wild water , but we have faith that his skill and sureness of eye ...
... duty to run straight at all hazards , but cautiously to assure himself with his setting - pole where the main current was , and keep steadily to that . He is still in wild water , but we have faith that his skill and sureness of eye ...
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... duty and action , which knows how to swing with the tide , but is never carried away by it , —that we demand in public men , and not sameness of policy , or a conscientious persistency in what is impracti- For the impracticable ...
... duty and action , which knows how to swing with the tide , but is never carried away by it , —that we demand in public men , and not sameness of policy , or a conscientious persistency in what is impracti- For the impracticable ...
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... duty . We are speak- ing of the government which , legally installed for the whole country , was bound , so long as it was possible , not to overstep the limits of orderly prescription , and could not , without ab- negating its own very ...
... duty . We are speak- ing of the government which , legally installed for the whole country , was bound , so long as it was possible , not to overstep the limits of orderly prescription , and could not , without ab- negating its own very ...
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Page 81 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 173 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 220 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder ; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court ; and that I will, in like manner.
Page xlvi - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Page 144 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 146 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 69 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 144 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page 146 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 232 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery...