Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson |
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... votes and speeches during his Congressional term . Becomes a delegate to the National Convention of 1848— He is nominated for United States Senator , but with- draws • He is again nominated for the Senate - His speeches in the ...
... votes and speeches during his Congressional term . Becomes a delegate to the National Convention of 1848— He is nominated for United States Senator , but with- draws • He is again nominated for the Senate - His speeches in the ...
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... votes out of two hundred and eighty - four , cast in New Salem , he was not elected , the successful candidate leading him a few votes . BECOMES A MERCHANT AND SURVEYOR . Soon after his political defeat he engaged in the mer- cantile ...
... votes out of two hundred and eighty - four , cast in New Salem , he was not elected , the successful candidate leading him a few votes . BECOMES A MERCHANT AND SURVEYOR . Soon after his political defeat he engaged in the mer- cantile ...
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... vote , and subsequently handed in the protest . IS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR . In every campaign from ... VOTES AND SPEECHES DURING HIS CON- GRESSIONAL TERM . In 1846 , Mr. Lincoln was elected to Congress from the Central ...
... vote , and subsequently handed in the protest . IS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR . In every campaign from ... VOTES AND SPEECHES DURING HIS CON- GRESSIONAL TERM . In 1846 , Mr. Lincoln was elected to Congress from the Central ...
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... vote pro or con on every important question , and on more than one occasion dis- played his eloquence and superior argumentative ability . One of his first votes was given on the twentieth of De- cember in favor of the following ...
... vote pro or con on every important question , and on more than one occasion dis- played his eloquence and superior argumentative ability . One of his first votes was given on the twentieth of De- cember in favor of the following ...
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... voting at elections , or paying tax or serving on juries , or having process served upon them , or in any other way . " 6th . Whether the people of that settlement did or did not fice from the approach of the United States Army ...
... voting at elections , or paying tax or serving on juries , or having process served upon them , or in any other way . " 6th . Whether the people of that settlement did or did not fice from the approach of the United States Army ...
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Page 89 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 131 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 97 - Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 94 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
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Page 90 - Association in 177-4. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union.
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