A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty HallThis book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War. |
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... established , and on which alone , it , or any other Union of the States , can be maintained consis- tently with the preservation of Constitutional Liberty throughout the Country - this Volume is most solemnly , and sacredly dedicated ...
... established , and on which alone , it , or any other Union of the States , can be maintained consis- tently with the preservation of Constitutional Liberty throughout the Country - this Volume is most solemnly , and sacredly dedicated ...
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... ESTABLISHED BY COMPROMISE OF 1850 , WAS THE ABANDONMENT OF TERRITORIAL DIVISION BE- TWEEN THE TWO GREAT SECTIONS OF THE UNION AND THE AFFIRM- ANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF NO CONGRESSIONAL RESTRICTION UPON ANY PORTION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ...
... ESTABLISHED BY COMPROMISE OF 1850 , WAS THE ABANDONMENT OF TERRITORIAL DIVISION BE- TWEEN THE TWO GREAT SECTIONS OF THE UNION AND THE AFFIRM- ANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF NO CONGRESSIONAL RESTRICTION UPON ANY PORTION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ...
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... established for all time to come . For if , with less than one hundred thousand popula- tion , she was such a people in 1776 as had the unquestionable right to alter and change their form of Government as they pleased , how much more ...
... established for all time to come . For if , with less than one hundred thousand popula- tion , she was such a people in 1776 as had the unquestionable right to alter and change their form of Government as they pleased , how much more ...
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... established princi- ples , the formation of a system of Government and legis- lation in which the different subjects shall be not individ - ` uals but States , the application of legislative principles to such a body of States , and the ...
... established princi- ples , the formation of a system of Government and legis- lation in which the different subjects shall be not individ - ` uals but States , the application of legislative principles to such a body of States , and the ...
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... established beyond question or doubt , we will now , if agreeable to you , proceed to con- sider the immediate and exciting question , which brought the organic principles of the Government into such terri- ble physical conflict in the ...
... established beyond question or doubt , we will now , if agreeable to you , proceed to con- sider the immediate and exciting question , which brought the organic principles of the Government into such terri- ble physical conflict in the ...
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Page 678 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Page 675 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 126 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 672 - No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 82 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 109 - 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 635 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 149 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix 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 parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 678 - Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions: 16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress: 17.
Page 596 - 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 article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...