Illinois, Historical and Statistical: Comprising the Essential Facts of Its Planting and Growth as a Province, County, Territory, and State. Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, Including Original Documents and Papers. Together with Carefully Prepared Statistical Tables, Volume 2 |
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... Amendment - Laws - Close of the War - Assassination of President Lincoln , 714 CHAPTER XXXIX . The Civil War - Number of Troops Engaged - Battles -Losses - Illinois in the War - Quotas - Troops Fur- nished by Each County - Bounties Paid ...
... Amendment - Laws - Close of the War - Assassination of President Lincoln , 714 CHAPTER XXXIX . The Civil War - Number of Troops Engaged - Battles -Losses - Illinois in the War - Quotas - Troops Fur- nished by Each County - Bounties Paid ...
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... Amendment - Special Legislation - Laws and Vetoes- Lake - Front Law - Constitution of 1870 , · 774 PERIOD SEVENTH . - UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1870 . CHAPTER XLII . Gov. Palmer's Administration [ Continued ] -State Conven- tions ...
... Amendment - Special Legislation - Laws and Vetoes- Lake - Front Law - Constitution of 1870 , · 774 PERIOD SEVENTH . - UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1870 . CHAPTER XLII . Gov. Palmer's Administration [ Continued ] -State Conven- tions ...
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... Amendments to the Constitution of 1870 , - Genesis and Growth of Counties , vii 1083 1105 · 1134 1137 State Officers under Constitutions of 1848 and 1870 , 1140 Judiciary , Judges of the Supreme Court , 1142 · 1146 Judges of the Circuit ...
... Amendments to the Constitution of 1870 , - Genesis and Growth of Counties , vii 1083 1105 · 1134 1137 State Officers under Constitutions of 1848 and 1870 , 1140 Judiciary , Judges of the Supreme Court , 1142 · 1146 Judges of the Circuit ...
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... amended in two years ; but to place them in the fundamental law , to remain irrevocably fixed , was certainly either to invite its evasion or to stimulate a desire for an early change . As will be seen hereafter , it was a very ill ...
... amended in two years ; but to place them in the fundamental law , to remain irrevocably fixed , was certainly either to invite its evasion or to stimulate a desire for an early change . As will be seen hereafter , it was a very ill ...
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... amended in important particulars , and curtailed of many of its objectionable features ; and it may be stated in its defence that the present system of national banking -the best that financial skill has been as yet able to devise- THE ...
... amended in important particulars , and curtailed of many of its objectionable features ; and it may be stated in its defence that the present system of national banking -the best that financial skill has been as yet able to devise- THE ...
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Page 661 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 1114 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 607 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 612 - No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Page 1103 - The governor and all other civil officers under this state, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office, but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit or trust, under this state. The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
Page 1100 - Each House shall determine the rules of its proceedings, and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members...
Page 1127 - ... he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon its journal and proceed to reconsider the bill.
Page 972 - And the said association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof.
Page 1151 - In all elections of representatives aforesaid, each qualified voter may cast as many votes for one candidate as there are representatives to be elected, or may distribute the same, or equal parts thereof, among the candidates, as he shall see fit; and the candidates highest in votes shall be declared elected.
Page 1097 - We, the people of the State of Illinois — grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations...