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... Amendment to the Constitution . The Legal Destruction of Slavery and a Consti- tutional Prohibition - Fifteenth Amendment granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro . President Grant's Special Message upon the Subject . — Universal ...
... Amendment to the Constitution . The Legal Destruction of Slavery and a Consti- tutional Prohibition - Fifteenth Amendment granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro . President Grant's Special Message upon the Subject . — Universal ...
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... amendment , with but one vote in the nega- tive by Mr. Thacher , of Maine , an uncompromising enemy of slavery . The committee to whom the memorial was referred brought in a bill during the session prohibiting American ships . from ...
... amendment , with but one vote in the nega- tive by Mr. Thacher , of Maine , an uncompromising enemy of slavery . The committee to whom the memorial was referred brought in a bill during the session prohibiting American ships . from ...
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... amendment , with but one vote in the nega- tive by Mr. Thacher , of Maine , an uncompromising enemy of slavery . The committee to whom the memorial was referred brought in a bill during the session prohibiting American ships from ...
... amendment , with but one vote in the nega- tive by Mr. Thacher , of Maine , an uncompromising enemy of slavery . The committee to whom the memorial was referred brought in a bill during the session prohibiting American ships from ...
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... amended by inserting a clause imposing a fine of $ 20,000 , upon all persons concerned in fitting out a vessel for the slave - trade ; and likewise a fine of $ 5,000 , and forfeiture of the vessel , for taking on board any Negro or ...
... amended by inserting a clause imposing a fine of $ 20,000 , upon all persons concerned in fitting out a vessel for the slave - trade ; and likewise a fine of $ 5,000 , and forfeiture of the vessel , for taking on board any Negro or ...
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... amended so as to make it more effective , and passed by a vote of eighty - four to sixty - nine . In the Senate , with several amendments , and heated debate , it passed by a vote of seventeen to thirteen ; but upon being returned to ...
... amended so as to make it more effective , and passed by a vote of eighty - four to sixty - nine . In the Senate , with several amendments , and heated debate , it passed by a vote of seventeen to thirteen ; but upon being returned to ...
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Page 26 - I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 302 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 216 - 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 257 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States...
Page 252 - 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 17 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever...
Page 420 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 256 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 302 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred...
Page 238 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be