Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 |
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... COMMITTEE - GARLAND SAVES THE STATE -SKETCH OF GOVERNOR , SENATOR , AND ATTORNEY- GENERAL GARLAND , PAGES 417-441 • · CHAPTER XXIV . THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU . - ACT CREATING IT — ITS PURPOSES AND SCOPE -SUPPLEMENTARY ACT PRESIDENT ...
... COMMITTEE - GARLAND SAVES THE STATE -SKETCH OF GOVERNOR , SENATOR , AND ATTORNEY- GENERAL GARLAND , PAGES 417-441 • · CHAPTER XXIV . THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU . - ACT CREATING IT — ITS PURPOSES AND SCOPE -SUPPLEMENTARY ACT PRESIDENT ...
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... COMMITTEE -STATE FINANCES , CHAPTER XXXI . PAGES 525-542 RECONSTRUCTION IN THE FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT . OF REGISTRATION SUFFRAGE - - LOUISIANA - GENERAL SHERIDAN'S REMOVAL OF STATE OFFICIALS HIS QUARREL WITH , AND REMOVAL OF , GOVERNOR ...
... COMMITTEE -STATE FINANCES , CHAPTER XXXI . PAGES 525-542 RECONSTRUCTION IN THE FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT . OF REGISTRATION SUFFRAGE - - LOUISIANA - GENERAL SHERIDAN'S REMOVAL OF STATE OFFICIALS HIS QUARREL WITH , AND REMOVAL OF , GOVERNOR ...
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... Committee on Foreign Relations . That committee had before it the question of the proposed war with Great Britain . The part of the President's message which related to the outrages committed against our commerce and flag by that Power ...
... Committee on Foreign Relations . That committee had before it the question of the proposed war with Great Britain . The part of the President's message which related to the outrages committed against our commerce and flag by that Power ...
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... Committee of Thirteen , he was willing to accept the compromise of Mr. Crittenden , and recede from secession.- This Committee and a House Committee of Thirty - three members were then considering " the state of the Union . " - The ...
... Committee of Thirteen , he was willing to accept the compromise of Mr. Crittenden , and recede from secession.- This Committee and a House Committee of Thirty - three members were then considering " the state of the Union . " - The ...
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... Committee of Thirty - three ; but to Millson , more than to any one , we owe the vote of Virginia in favor of the Union given in February , 1861. The author , at his request , franked many thousands of his unanswerable speech to ...
... Committee of Thirty - three ; but to Millson , more than to any one , we owe the vote of Virginia in favor of the Union given in February , 1861. The author , at his request , franked many thousands of his unanswerable speech to ...
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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...