KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;1866 |
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Page 249
... bureau , appoint such agents , clerks , and assistants as may be required for the proper conduct of the bureau . Military offi- cers or enlisted men may be detailed for service and assigned to duty under this act ; and the President may ...
... bureau , appoint such agents , clerks , and assistants as may be required for the proper conduct of the bureau . Military offi- cers or enlisted men may be detailed for service and assigned to duty under this act ; and the President may ...
Page 250
... Bureau as assistant commissioners , agents , medical officers , or in other capacities , whose regiments or corps have been or may hereafter be mustered out of service , may be retained upon such duty as officers of said bureau , with ...
... Bureau as assistant commissioners , agents , medical officers , or in other capacities , whose regiments or corps have been or may hereafter be mustered out of service , may be retained upon such duty as officers of said bureau , with ...
Page 251
... September , eighteen hundred and sixty - three , to the United States direct tax com missioners for South Carolina , certain lands bid in by the United States in the parish of Saint Helena , FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 251.
... September , eighteen hundred and sixty - three , to the United States direct tax com missioners for South Carolina , certain lands bid in by the United States in the parish of Saint Helena , FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 251.
Page 253
... - lina , shall be sold , subject to any leases of the same , by the said tax commissioners , at public auction , on or before the first day of January , eighteen hundred and sixty - seven , at not less than ten FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 253.
... - lina , shall be sold , subject to any leases of the same , by the said tax commissioners , at public auction , on or before the first day of January , eighteen hundred and sixty - seven , at not less than ten FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 253.
Page 255
... fair compensation shall have been made to them by the former owners of such lands or their legal representatives for all improvements or betterments erected or constructed thereon , and after due notice FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 255.
... fair compensation shall have been made to them by the former owners of such lands or their legal representatives for all improvements or betterments erected or constructed thereon , and after due notice FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL . 255.
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Page 51 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 94 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Page 20 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Page 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 99 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 225 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 224 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 89 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 35 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.