The Voter's Text Book: Comprising a Collection of the Most Important Documents and Statistics Connected with the Political History of America, Compiled from Official Records, with Biographical and Historical SketchesAsher, Adams & Higgins, 1868 - 382 páginas |
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... Union . I suggested compensated emancipation ; to which you replied that you wished not to be taxed to buy negroes ... troops to be the heaviest blows yet dealt to the rebellion , and that at least one of these important successes could not ...
... Union . I suggested compensated emancipation ; to which you replied that you wished not to be taxed to buy negroes ... troops to be the heaviest blows yet dealt to the rebellion , and that at least one of these important successes could not ...
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... Troops were raised for the joint defense . How , then , with all these ... union should now be considered as a mere league , that may be dissolved at ... Union was formed for the benefit of all . It was produced by mutual sacrifices of ...
... Troops were raised for the joint defense . How , then , with all these ... union should now be considered as a mere league , that may be dissolved at ... Union was formed for the benefit of all . It was produced by mutual sacrifices of ...
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... Union on the 3d of December , 1818. Until 1809 it was a part of Indiana , at ... troops marched against and captured them . The whole sect was ultimately ... Union on the 14th of December , 1819 . It has a deep , rich soil , and in many ...
... Union on the 3d of December , 1818. Until 1809 it was a part of Indiana , at ... troops marched against and captured them . The whole sect was ultimately ... Union on the 14th of December , 1819 . It has a deep , rich soil , and in many ...
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... troops during the Rebellion , and has been the scene of much bloodshed and ruin . It was settled in 1764 , at St ... Union . Florida was the theater of the Seminole war , which cost the United States so much blood and treasure . It went ...
... troops during the Rebellion , and has been the scene of much bloodshed and ruin . It was settled in 1764 , at St ... Union . Florida was the theater of the Seminole war , which cost the United States so much blood and treasure . It went ...
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... Union , and possessing , in an eminent degree , the confidence of the country . After serving out the constitutional ... troops of friends , with whom he still continues to enjoy an unabated popularity . It should be borne in mind by ...
... Union , and possessing , in an eminent degree , the confidence of the country . After serving out the constitutional ... troops of friends , with whom he still continues to enjoy an unabated popularity . It should be borne in mind by ...
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Página 16 - No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the United States in Congress assembled, for the defense of such State, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace, except such number only...
Página 54 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 17 - ... to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question; but if they cannot agree, Congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one...
Página 99 - ... 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...
Página 55 - 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.
Página 64 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Página 54 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Página 59 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Página 83 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 90 - No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.