Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 |
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... citizens who were innocent ; not merely by silencing the Constitu- tion in various ways , and restrictions on civil ... citizen , nor full rehabilitation given to those who acquiesced in the gov- ernment . Even the " test oaths , " that ...
... citizens who were innocent ; not merely by silencing the Constitu- tion in various ways , and restrictions on civil ... citizen , nor full rehabilitation given to those who acquiesced in the gov- ernment . Even the " test oaths , " that ...
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... citizens , vast sums of this rapidly acquired and ill - gotten wealth , which , in many instances , quite as rapidly , and very remarkably , took to tself wings and flew away . In some cases , however , it remained , and formed the ...
... citizens , vast sums of this rapidly acquired and ill - gotten wealth , which , in many instances , quite as rapidly , and very remarkably , took to tself wings and flew away . In some cases , however , it remained , and formed the ...
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... citizens of independent and co - equal states . They were intensely jealous of the interference from abroad with their domestic affairs . The preservation of slavery was not regarded , in the South , as a matter of vital importance ...
... citizens of independent and co - equal states . They were intensely jealous of the interference from abroad with their domestic affairs . The preservation of slavery was not regarded , in the South , as a matter of vital importance ...
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... citizens and voters . The following brief extract from the journals of the Continental Congress shows what so eminent a man as Mr. Jefferson thought of the power to exclude slavery from the ter- ritories under the Articles of ...
... citizens and voters . The following brief extract from the journals of the Continental Congress shows what so eminent a man as Mr. Jefferson thought of the power to exclude slavery from the ter- ritories under the Articles of ...
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... citizens of each separate com- munity had the right to shape their institutions to suit themselves ; and to ad- mit or exclude slavery as they should see fit . It denied that the Constitution by its own vigor , carried slavery to the ...
... citizens of each separate com- munity had the right to shape their institutions to suit themselves ; and to ad- mit or exclude slavery as they should see fit . It denied that the Constitution by its own vigor , carried slavery to the ...
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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 262 - Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
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 337 - I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare and make known to all persons who have directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where rights of third parties shall have intervened...
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 346 - 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 694 - That, in each state entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such state may be entitled in the 53d and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants.
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...