The Presidents and Their Administrations: A Handbook of Political Parties, for Every VoterJ.W. Robinson, 1873 - 320 páginas |
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... UNION OF THE COLONIES . - The Puritans having made their settlements for religious freedom , continued to disre- gard the rules and forms of the established church . Eng- land , in order to more easily govern the colonies and check ...
... UNION OF THE COLONIES . - The Puritans having made their settlements for religious freedom , continued to disre- gard the rules and forms of the established church . Eng- land , in order to more easily govern the colonies and check ...
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... union , which took the name of the " United Colonies of New England , " lasted over forty years and was of great service , not only in showing the benefits of union , but also in protecting them from the hostile Indian tribes at home ...
... union , which took the name of the " United Colonies of New England , " lasted over forty years and was of great service , not only in showing the benefits of union , but also in protecting them from the hostile Indian tribes at home ...
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... union . XI . ORGANIZATION OF ARMY . - June 15th , 1775 , George Washington was nominated by Johnson of Maryland , for Commander - in - Chief of the Continental Army , and having been brought forward " at the particular request of the ...
... union . XI . ORGANIZATION OF ARMY . - June 15th , 1775 , George Washington was nominated by Johnson of Maryland , for Commander - in - Chief of the Continental Army , and having been brought forward " at the particular request of the ...
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... union between the thirteen States became more than ever evident . Accordingly , a committee was designated , to prepare a plan of union for the States , and bring them into a more firm and consolidated condition . They brought in their ...
... union between the thirteen States became more than ever evident . Accordingly , a committee was designated , to prepare a plan of union for the States , and bring them into a more firm and consolidated condition . They brought in their ...
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... Union between the States , " became operative on the 2d day of March . But this compact was short - lived , and totally failed to provide the machinery of organized government . During the war , the colonies got along well enough ...
... Union between the States , " became operative on the 2d day of March . But this compact was short - lived , and totally failed to provide the machinery of organized government . During the war , the colonies got along well enough ...
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Página 263 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 247 - ... it becomes our duty by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Página 233 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 285 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Página 115 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Página 265 - 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.
Página 265 - These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Página 223 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Página 266 - Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Página 260 - 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...