Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 |
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... gave voice to its arches and pillars . Every stone and tablet echoed the elder and , as it was said , the better day ... gave , in 1873 , life - size statues , in bronze , of Gen. George Clinton , a Democrat par excellence , and Robert R ...
... gave voice to its arches and pillars . Every stone and tablet echoed the elder and , as it was said , the better day ... gave , in 1873 , life - size statues , in bronze , of Gen. George Clinton , a Democrat par excellence , and Robert R ...
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... gave him a pause for calm reflection , all his passions and interests became subordinated to a clear mental vision . Whatever of acrimony may have remained from the heat of discussion gave place to charity . He had time to observe the ...
... gave him a pause for calm reflection , all his passions and interests became subordinated to a clear mental vision . Whatever of acrimony may have remained from the heat of discussion gave place to charity . He had time to observe the ...
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... gave their states a new growth and a blessed fruitage . To such men honors more enduring than blood - stained laurels must be awarded . The author of this volume recognized the Roman lesson when , on the sixth day of January , 1861 , as ...
... gave their states a new growth and a blessed fruitage . To such men honors more enduring than blood - stained laurels must be awarded . The author of this volume recognized the Roman lesson when , on the sixth day of January , 1861 , as ...
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... gave to the Democracy its suffrage- a suffrage expressly given to that party in behalf of reform and principle , although the power to execute the trust was diverted and ravished from it by fraud and force . Nor would there have been ...
... gave to the Democracy its suffrage- a suffrage expressly given to that party in behalf of reform and principle , although the power to execute the trust was diverted and ravished from it by fraud and force . Nor would there have been ...
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... gave strength to the spirit of liberty . After the middle of the eighteenth century it gave new force to the judgment of history against slavery . When the Revolution of 1776 came on , there were few enlightened men , north or south ...
... gave strength to the spirit of liberty . After the middle of the eighteenth century it gave new force to the judgment of history against slavery . When the Revolution of 1776 came on , there were few enlightened men , north or south ...
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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...