 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 792 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion had by the act of those inhabitant.', ceased to exist. But the true theory is that all pretended acts of secession were from... | |
 | James Daniel Richardson, United States. President - Presidents - 1899 - 818 pages
...conquered territory would liave implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in tlie rebellion had by the act of those inhabitants ceased to exist. But t Vie true theory is that all pretended acts of secession were from the beginning null and void. The... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - North Carolina - 1906 - 942 pages
...one is the destruction of the other; the preservation of the one is the preservation of the other. The true theory is that all pretended acts of secession...commit treason nor screen the individual citizens who have committed treason any more than they can make valid treaties or engage in lawful commerce with... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Buildings - 1906 - 532 pages
...by George Bancroft, the historian. See American Historical Review, April, 1906. [December 4, 1865] THE true theory is that all pretended acts of secession...were from the beginning null and void. The States can not commit treason nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason any more than... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...were from the beginning null and void. The States can not commit treason nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason any more than... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 544 pages
...character as States. But their life-breath has only been suspended. ..." Annual Message, Dec. 4, 1865. — "The true theory is that all pretended acts of secession...from the beginning null and void. . . . The States attempting to secede placed themselves in a condition where their vitality was impaired, but not extinguished;... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 614 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...were from the beginning null and void. The States can not commit treason nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason any more than... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Constitutional history - 1912 - 620 pages
...Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion...secession were from the beginning null and void. The S States can not commit treason nor screen the individual citizens *> who may have committed treason... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1916 - 398 pages
...one is the destruction of the other; the preservation of the one is the preservation of the other. The true theory is that all pretended acts of secession...commit treason nor screen the individual citizens who have committed treason any more than they can make valid treaties or engage in lawful commerce with... | |
 | Allen Johnson - United States - 1919 - 346 pages
...was the duty of the Executive to restore them to their proper relations. "The true theory," said he, "is that all pretended acts of secession were from...void. The States cannot commit treason nor screen individual citizens who may have committed treason ,any more than they can make valid treaties or engage... | |
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But the true theory is, that all pretended acts of secession were, from the beginning, null and void. The States can not commit treason, nor screen the individual citizens who may have committed treason, any more than they can make valid treaties, or... 
