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... President Jackson The Grave of Andrew Jackson 199 200 202 205 205 207 · 207 209 211 211 216 . 220 227 229 230 · 231 234 237 · 239 · 240 241 241 • 243 249 253 CHAPTER IX . MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF CONTENTS . 9.
... President Jackson The Grave of Andrew Jackson 199 200 202 205 205 207 · 207 209 211 211 216 . 220 227 229 230 · 231 234 237 · 239 · 240 241 241 • 243 249 253 CHAPTER IX . MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF CONTENTS . 9.
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George Sumner Weaver. CHAPTER IX . MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES . Ancestry , Birth and Boyhood Van Buren the Lawyer A Politician Secretary of State Vice - President Van Buren President Van Buren The Grave of ...
George Sumner Weaver. CHAPTER IX . MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES . Ancestry , Birth and Boyhood Van Buren the Lawyer A Politician Secretary of State Vice - President Van Buren President Van Buren The Grave of ...
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George Sumner Weaver. O ! کی ۔ CHAPTER IX . MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH. L 1 10 1 4 ' I e ti ז ' , י 1 T 10 1. 11 3 .d enc rent . inci shov.
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George Sumner Weaver. топившем O ! CHAPTER IX . URNING from General Jackson's to. ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR WEAVERS LIVES AND GRAVES OF OUR PRESIDENTS MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
George Sumner Weaver. топившем O ! CHAPTER IX . URNING from General Jackson's to. ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR WEAVERS LIVES AND GRAVES OF OUR PRESIDENTS MARTIN VAN BUREN . EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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... Martin Van Buren were Germans . They belonged to that thrifty and solid - sensed class which settled in the valley of the Hudson and put so much good blood , muscle and character into the society of the New World . The emigrants from ...
... Martin Van Buren were Germans . They belonged to that thrifty and solid - sensed class which settled in the valley of the Hudson and put so much good blood , muscle and character into the society of the New World . The emigrants from ...
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Page 497 - Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 30 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Page 482 - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 485 - States; to borrow money on the credit of the United States; to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with the Indian tribes; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Page 387 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 27 - WHEN IN THE COURSE of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 483 - ... the yeas and nays of the members of cither House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. Neither House during the session of Congress shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. SEC. 6. The senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United...
Page 392 - I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me — and I think He has — I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God.
Page 483 - SEC. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Page 491 - ... states concerned, as well as of the congress. The congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government ; and shall protect each...