John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet: An Autobiography, Volume 1 |
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... majority of the people , and is still in force . The decennial growth of the population of Ohio is here shown : 1802 1810 . 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 . 1880 45.028 230,760 381,295 937,903 1,519,467 1,980,329 • 2,339,511 2,665,260 ...
... majority of the people , and is still in force . The decennial growth of the population of Ohio is here shown : 1802 1810 . 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 . 1880 45.028 230,760 381,295 937,903 1,519,467 1,980,329 • 2,339,511 2,665,260 ...
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... majority of the electoral vote . General Taylor proved a very conscientious and acceptable President . His death , on the ninth day of July , 1850 , pre- ceded the passage of the compromise measures of Henry Clay , commonly known by his ...
... majority of the electoral vote . General Taylor proved a very conscientious and acceptable President . His death , on the ninth day of July , 1850 , pre- ceded the passage of the compromise measures of Henry Clay , commonly known by his ...
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... majority . A district convention was held at Shelby , in July . Mr. James M. Root , for several terms a Member of Congress , was my chief competitor , but I was nominated , chiefly because I had been less connected with old parties and ...
... majority . A district convention was held at Shelby , in July . Mr. James M. Root , for several terms a Member of Congress , was my chief competitor , but I was nominated , chiefly because I had been less connected with old parties and ...
Page 105
... majority , having carried every county in the district . Richland county , in which I lived , for the first time cast a majority adverse to the Democratic party , I receiving a majority of over 300 votes . During the summer of 1855 ...
... majority , having carried every county in the district . Richland county , in which I lived , for the first time cast a majority adverse to the Democratic party , I receiving a majority of over 300 votes . During the summer of 1855 ...
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... majority of the voters of Ohio were Republicans as defined by the creed of that party . In the summer of 1855 I made my first trip to Iowa , accom- panied by Amos Townsend and James Cobean . At that time Iowa was a far - off state ...
... majority of the voters of Ohio were Republicans as defined by the creed of that party . In the summer of 1855 I made my first trip to Iowa , accom- panied by Amos Townsend and James Cobean . At that time Iowa was a far - off state ...
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Page 220 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 90 - It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 134 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 301 - 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 90 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 519 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page 90 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provision of the Federal Constitution.
Page 232 - And furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede; for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 90 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted...
Page 336 - That as slavery was the cause, and now constitutes the strength, of .this rebellion, and as it must be, always and everywhere, hostile to the principles of republican government, justice and the national safety demand its utter and complete extirpation from the soil of the republic...