Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 |
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... March 2 , 1867 . This Act was the initial measure of Congressional Reconstruction . was followed by the Act of March 23 , of the same year , which gave partic- ular directions to the military commanders in the Southern States to cause a ...
... March 2 , 1867 . This Act was the initial measure of Congressional Reconstruction . was followed by the Act of March 23 , of the same year , which gave partic- ular directions to the military commanders in the Southern States to cause a ...
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... MARCH ΤΟ THE SEA THE TAKING OF SAVANNAH AND FORT FISHER - PEACE PROPOSITIONS NORTH AND SOUTH DURING THE WAR RESOLUTIONS AND SENTIMENTS AGAINST PEACE- -THE GROWTH OF THE PEACE SENTIMENT FROM - 1861 TO 1865 - PEACE BY COMMISSIONERS , AND ...
... MARCH ΤΟ THE SEA THE TAKING OF SAVANNAH AND FORT FISHER - PEACE PROPOSITIONS NORTH AND SOUTH DURING THE WAR RESOLUTIONS AND SENTIMENTS AGAINST PEACE- -THE GROWTH OF THE PEACE SENTIMENT FROM - 1861 TO 1865 - PEACE BY COMMISSIONERS , AND ...
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... march out of the old shadowy and murmur- ous chamber , into the new hall with its ornate and gilded interior . The scene is intense in a rare dramatic quality . Above shine in vari - colored USE OF AN OPPOSITION PARTY . 27 light , the ...
... march out of the old shadowy and murmur- ous chamber , into the new hall with its ornate and gilded interior . The scene is intense in a rare dramatic quality . Above shine in vari - colored USE OF AN OPPOSITION PARTY . 27 light , the ...
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... March , 1861 , there was hope of reconciliation . Douglas and Crittenden were still sanguine when they telegraphed to Georgia that the rights of the South and of every state and section would be protected in the Union . The first ...
... March , 1861 , there was hope of reconciliation . Douglas and Crittenden were still sanguine when they telegraphed to Georgia that the rights of the South and of every state and section would be protected in the Union . The first ...
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... March , 1861 , the Thirty - sixth Congress adjourns sine die . There are many sad and last farewells - for the pall of impend- ing wrath hangs over all the land . Black clouds of war loom up all around , surcharged with the elements of ...
... March , 1861 , the Thirty - sixth Congress adjourns sine die . There are many sad and last farewells - for the pall of impend- ing wrath hangs over all the land . Black clouds of war loom up all around , surcharged with the elements of ...
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Page 240 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 338 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 103 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Page 102 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion...
Page 117 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 160 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 350 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 373 - Under this article of the constitution it rests with congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, congress -must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
Page 103 - ... that the several states •who formed that Instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...
Page 610 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!