Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson |
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... officers who remained true despite the example of their treacherous associates , but the greatest honor and the most important fact of all , is the unani- mous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so ...
... officers who remained true despite the example of their treacherous associates , but the greatest honor and the most important fact of all , is the unani- mous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors . To the last man , so ...
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... officers of the revenue of the military and naval forces of the United States to be vigilant in the execution of the said act , and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or declared by it , leaving any party who ...
... officers of the revenue of the military and naval forces of the United States to be vigilant in the execution of the said act , and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or declared by it , leaving any party who ...
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... officers of the army and volunteers for meritorious and distinguished services , and of preventing the nomination and appointment in the military service of incompetent or un- worthy officers . " The regulations will also provide for ...
... officers of the army and volunteers for meritorious and distinguished services , and of preventing the nomination and appointment in the military service of incompetent or un- worthy officers . " The regulations will also provide for ...
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... officers or persons of the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the ... officer who shall be found guilty by a court - martial of violating this article , shall be dismissed from the service ...
... officers or persons of the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the ... officer who shall be found guilty by a court - martial of violating this article , shall be dismissed from the service ...
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... officers and men in the military and naval service . The im- portance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest , the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors , a becoming defer- ence to the best sentiment of a Christian ...
... officers and men in the military and naval service . The im- portance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest , the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors , a becoming defer- ence to the best sentiment of a Christian ...
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Page 89 - 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 131 - ... 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 97 - Whereas, The laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 94 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
Page 94 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 134 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 92 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed -with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.
Page 90 - Association in 177-4. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 131 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...