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... Congress in the session of 1861 - ' 2 , had an important bearing upon agriculture . The first was the establish- ment of a distinct department or bureau of agriculture , which had hitherto been attached to the Patent Office . Isaac ...
... Congress in the session of 1861 - ' 2 , had an important bearing upon agriculture . The first was the establish- ment of a distinct department or bureau of agriculture , which had hitherto been attached to the Patent Office . Isaac ...
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... Congress , Aug. 7 , 1788. At first the standing army was organ ized under the " Original Rules and Articles of War , " adopted by the Continental Congress of 1776 , with such slight modifications as were necessary to adapt them to the ...
... Congress , Aug. 7 , 1788. At first the standing army was organ ized under the " Original Rules and Articles of War , " adopted by the Continental Congress of 1776 , with such slight modifications as were necessary to adapt them to the ...
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... Congress by President Davis , in which he says : " Since my Message at the last session of the Provisional Con- gress , events have demonstrated that the Gov- ernment had attempted more than it had power successfully to achieve . Hence ...
... Congress by President Davis , in which he says : " Since my Message at the last session of the Provisional Con- gress , events have demonstrated that the Gov- ernment had attempted more than it had power successfully to achieve . Hence ...
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... Congress can pass a conscript act with certain ex- emptions , they can pass it without exemptions . No one will deny this . If , therefore , they have the power to prescribe what shall be militia and to conscribe at pleasure , they may ...
... Congress can pass a conscript act with certain ex- emptions , they can pass it without exemptions . No one will deny this . If , therefore , they have the power to prescribe what shall be militia and to conscribe at pleasure , they may ...
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At the time when the conscript law was passed by the Confederate Congress , another act , to provide for Partisan Rangers , was also adopted . It was as follows : " An act to organize bands of Partisan Rangers : " SECTION 1. The Congress ...
At the time when the conscript law was passed by the Confederate Congress , another act , to provide for Partisan Rangers , was also adopted . It was as follows : " An act to organize bands of Partisan Rangers : " SECTION 1. The Congress ...
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Page 3 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 235 - Apprehension seems to exist, among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 235 - ... 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, is essential to that balance of...
Page 267 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 413 - Both riches and honour come of thee. and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto alL Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Page 332 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 292 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Page 292 - ... a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 235 - Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them. And, more than this, • they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read...
Page 336 - No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another. Each legislates for itself, but its legislation ean operate on itself alone.