The American Annual Cyclopędia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1865 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... But it was more ; it was such an organization , founded upon great ... institutions , to organize its own sys- tem of labor , and to pursue its own carcer of enter ... that the independence of the Southern Confederate 200 CONFEDERATE STATES .
... But it was more ; it was such an organization , founded upon great ... institutions , to organize its own sys- tem of labor , and to pursue its own carcer of enter ... that the independence of the Southern Confederate 200 CONFEDERATE STATES .
Page 303
... State of this Union undertakes to set up a monarchy , suppose it has elected its monarch , suppose he is on the throne , and sets up a government hostile to the United States , how shall the United States guarantee a republican ...
... State of this Union undertakes to set up a monarchy , suppose it has elected its monarch , suppose he is on the throne , and sets up a government hostile to the United States , how shall the United States guarantee a republican ...
Page 306
... that recognizes the existence of any particular institution in a State . It is derived from the legislative power , from the law - making power . " Mr. President , the Senate will bear in mind that the bill now under consideration , in ...
... that recognizes the existence of any particular institution in a State . It is derived from the legislative power , from the law - making power . " Mr. President , the Senate will bear in mind that the bill now under consideration , in ...
Page 331
... over- throwing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States , but to defend and main- tain the supremacy of the Constitution , and preserve the Union with all the dignity , equality , and rights of the several ...
... over- throwing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States , but to defend and main- tain the supremacy of the Constitution , and preserve the Union with all the dignity , equality , and rights of the several ...
Page 332
... overthrowing or interfering with the rights or estab- lished institutions of those States , but to defend and maintain the supremocy of the Constitution , and to preserve the Union with all the dignity , equality , and rights of the several ...
... overthrowing or interfering with the rights or estab- lished institutions of those States , but to defend and maintain the supremocy of the Constitution , and to preserve the Union with all the dignity , equality , and rights of the several ...
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Page 310 - 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 violen«1.
Page 330 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 197 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 332 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 253 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present,...
Page 150 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 330 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 273 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 233 - That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.
Page 67 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.