The Century of Independence: Embracing a Collection, from Official Sources, of the Most Important Documents and Statistics Connected with the Political History of America; Also, a Chronological Record of the Principal Events ... with Biographical and Historical Sketches |
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... Legislatures . Governors : Term of Office , and State Capitals . Wealth , Local Debt , and Taxation . Agricultural . • • • • 289 297 300 306 311 · 313 · 316 • 317 . 318 • . 318 . 318 . 318 318 • • 319 . 319 319 · 320 321 ( k ) Public ...
... Legislatures . Governors : Term of Office , and State Capitals . Wealth , Local Debt , and Taxation . Agricultural . • • • • 289 297 300 306 311 · 313 · 316 • 317 . 318 • . 318 . 318 . 318 318 • • 319 . 319 319 · 320 321 ( k ) Public ...
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... legislatures severally . Eight of the States ratified these articles on the 9th July , 1778 ; one on the 21st July ; one on the 24th July ; one on the 26th November of the same year ; one on the 22d February , 1779 ; and the last one on ...
... legislatures severally . Eight of the States ratified these articles on the 9th July , 1778 ; one on the 21st July ; one on the 24th July ; one on the 26th November of the same year ; one on the 22d February , 1779 ; and the last one on ...
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... legislature — a right inestimable to them , and formidable to tyrants only . He has called together legislative bodies at places un- usual , uncomfortable , and distant from the depository of their public records , for the sole purpose ...
... legislature — a right inestimable to them , and formidable to tyrants only . He has called together legislative bodies at places un- usual , uncomfortable , and distant from the depository of their public records , for the sole purpose ...
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... legislature . He has affected to render the military independent of , and superior to , the civil power . He has combined , with others , to subject us to a juris- diction foreign to our constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ...
... legislature . He has affected to render the military independent of , and superior to , the civil power . He has combined , with others , to subject us to a juris- diction foreign to our constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ...
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... legislature , and declaring them- selves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever . He has abdicated government here , by declaring us out of his protection , and waging war against us . He has plundered our seas ...
... legislature , and declaring them- selves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever . He has abdicated government here , by declaring us out of his protection , and waging war against us . He has plundered our seas ...
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Page 153 - 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 21 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Page 21 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated...
Page 72 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 24 - And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 25 - ... or military operations as in their judgment require secresy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each State, on any question, shall be entered on the journal when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a State, or any of them...
Page 78 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Page 31 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Page 153 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 526 - No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...