The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 16Americana Company, 1904 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Union ( 1 March 1781 ) . These articles apparently purported to have sovereignty in the individual States ; and after the war was over , the States showed lack of ap- preciation of continental obligations and priv- ileges . The Congress ...
... Union ( 1 March 1781 ) . These articles apparently purported to have sovereignty in the individual States ; and after the war was over , the States showed lack of ap- preciation of continental obligations and priv- ileges . The Congress ...
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... Union , difficulties arose . The South wished to have Missouri admitted as a slave State ; the North , not averse to its admission , desired to see it a free State . The South needed to have room for territorial expansion , since its ...
... Union , difficulties arose . The South wished to have Missouri admitted as a slave State ; the North , not averse to its admission , desired to see it a free State . The South needed to have room for territorial expansion , since its ...
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... Union was a union of States , the Constitution not a law but an agreement between States ; each State , being possessed of sovereign authority , must have the ultimate right to judge as to the validity of laws passed by the national ...
... Union was a union of States , the Constitution not a law but an agreement between States ; each State , being possessed of sovereign authority , must have the ultimate right to judge as to the validity of laws passed by the national ...
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... Union . Her separate existence was recog- nized by sending a minister from Washington ; but there was for a time no serious movement for annexation . In 1840 Harrison and Tyler were chosen as President and Vice - president . Harrison ...
... Union . Her separate existence was recog- nized by sending a minister from Washington ; but there was for a time no serious movement for annexation . In 1840 Harrison and Tyler were chosen as President and Vice - president . Harrison ...
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... Union was legal , political , and formal , that harmony was passing away . And yet , though perhaps the Southern people were in large measure united in defense of slavery , the great body of men at the North were not ready to act in ...
... Union was legal , political , and formal , that harmony was passing away . And yet , though perhaps the Southern people were in large measure united in defense of slavery , the great body of men at the North were not ready to act in ...
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Page 6 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 13 - 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 if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 11 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St.
Page 10 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...
Page 11 - The creed which accepts as the foundation ! of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 13 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 13 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 1 - That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing Government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union.
Page 9 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission...
Page 1 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed by way of discrimination against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.