Echoes from the South: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Public Acts Emanating from the South During the Late WarThis work contains speeches, addresses, and public records from the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
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... department of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges , I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can without the loss of power , or any essential right or interest , remain in the ...
... department of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges , I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can without the loss of power , or any essential right or interest , remain in the ...
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... States proceeded to exercise its separate sovereignty ; adopted for itself a Constitution , and appointed officers for the " administration of government in all its departments -Legislative , Executive 46 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH .
... States proceeded to exercise its separate sovereignty ; adopted for itself a Constitution , and appointed officers for the " administration of government in all its departments -Legislative , Executive 46 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH .
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... departments -Legislative , Executive and Judicial . For pur- poses of defence they united their arms and their counsels ; and , in 1778 , they entered into a League known as the Articles of Confederation , whereby they agreed to intrust ...
... departments -Legislative , Executive and Judicial . For pur- poses of defence they united their arms and their counsels ; and , in 1778 , they entered into a League known as the Articles of Confederation , whereby they agreed to intrust ...
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... Department , the means of subverting the Constitution itself . A geographical line has been drawn across the Union , and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the ...
... Department , the means of subverting the Constitution itself . A geographical line has been drawn across the Union , and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the ...
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... departments shall have the privilege of seats upon the floor of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives - shall have the right to participate in the debates and discussions upon the various subjects of administration . I should have ...
... departments shall have the privilege of seats upon the floor of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives - shall have the right to participate in the debates and discussions upon the various subjects of administration . I should have ...
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Page 49 - Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 58 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 59 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 114 - Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment...
Page 87 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 127 - The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of the next session ; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reap126 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH. pointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
Page 68 - Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
Page 127 - President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty ; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
Page 76 - Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government and the inalienable rights of the people of the States will prevent...
Page 109 - The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment; except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.