The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion |
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... officers from the capital . It declares the offices of Governor , Lieutenant - Governor , and Secretary of State vacant , and provides that their vacancies shall be filled by the Convention , the officers so appointed to hold their ...
... officers from the capital . It declares the offices of Governor , Lieutenant - Governor , and Secretary of State vacant , and provides that their vacancies shall be filled by the Convention , the officers so appointed to hold their ...
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... officer , and justice requires that he should not be condemned without a fair hearing . former position , and there to await the con- tingencies presented in his instructions . This could only have been done with any degree of safety to ...
... officer , and justice requires that he should not be condemned without a fair hearing . former position , and there to await the con- tingencies presented in his instructions . This could only have been done with any degree of safety to ...
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... officers , and officers of the volunteer militia forbidden to arrest , imprison , detain , or return , or aid in o doing , any person for the reason that he i , claimed or adjudged to be a fugitive from service or labor , shall be ...
... officers , and officers of the volunteer militia forbidden to arrest , imprison , detain , or return , or aid in o doing , any person for the reason that he i , claimed or adjudged to be a fugitive from service or labor , shall be ...
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... officers ; the President has Do sathority , under any circumstances , to collect the same revenues at other places by a different sort of officers , or , in ways not provided for . Even if the machinery fur- nished by Congress for the ...
... officers ; the President has Do sathority , under any circumstances , to collect the same revenues at other places by a different sort of officers , or , in ways not provided for . Even if the machinery fur- nished by Congress for the ...
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... officers positive aggression upon its property or its officers , cannot themselves ( including judges , district - attorneys , and mar- be denied . But this is a totally different thing from an shals ) would be reached by the same ...
... officers positive aggression upon its property or its officers , cannot themselves ( including judges , district - attorneys , and mar- be denied . But this is a totally different thing from an shals ) would be reached by the same ...
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Page 231 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 109 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 91 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 226 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 110 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 109 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 137 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 127 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 180 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 232 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.