Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1906: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper & brothers, 1906 - United States |
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... labor of numerous render without instructions from Agui- slaves , South Carolina was regarded as the naldo , and General Miller made prepara- wealthiest of the colonies . Settlers also tions to take forcible possession , but on a passed ...
... labor of numerous render without instructions from Agui- slaves , South Carolina was regarded as the naldo , and General Miller made prepara- wealthiest of the colonies . Settlers also tions to take forcible possession , but on a passed ...
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... labor , and favor a more rigid enforcement of the laws re- lating thereto . " Immigration Statistics . During the ... labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the home market , and that the value ...
... labor , and favor a more rigid enforcement of the laws re- lating thereto . " Immigration Statistics . During the ... labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the home market , and that the value ...
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... labor , shall be settled , compromised , or discontinued without the consent of the court entered of record with reasons therefor . " Sec . 3. That it shall be deemed a vio- lation of said act of Feb. 26 , 1885 , to assist or encourage ...
... labor , shall be settled , compromised , or discontinued without the consent of the court entered of record with reasons therefor . " Sec . 3. That it shall be deemed a vio- lation of said act of Feb. 26 , 1885 , to assist or encourage ...
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... labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due . " And this : " The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be ...
... labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due . " And this : " The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be ...
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... labor of gathering information concern- ing the material , financial , educational , social , and other interests of the Indian Territory , and of carrying out the duties imposed on the commission , may be lik- ened to the application ...
... labor of gathering information concern- ing the material , financial , educational , social , and other interests of the Indian Territory , and of carrying out the duties imposed on the commission , may be lik- ened to the application ...
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Page 429 - 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 427 - I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 429 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 279 - There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 431 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 427 - That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak? Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of...
Page 427 - Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.
Page 431 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Page 135 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 389 - Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field was directed by the President to be promulgated in a general order (No.