The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson: Including His State Papers, Speeches and AddressesDerby & Miller, 1866 - 554 páginas |
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... treason and war against the Republic , Johnson found it necessary to fall back on his individual character as a man , as considered in opposition to what might be his prospects as a politician residing in the South . The fact that he ...
... treason and war against the Republic , Johnson found it necessary to fall back on his individual character as a man , as considered in opposition to what might be his prospects as a politician residing in the South . The fact that he ...
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... treason . every necessary point they used Mr. Buchanan to forward their designs ; and it cannot be doubted that the veto was incited through fear of the effect of a Homestead bill , if carried into a law , on the population of the South ...
... treason . every necessary point they used Mr. Buchanan to forward their designs ; and it cannot be doubted that the veto was incited through fear of the effect of a Homestead bill , if carried into a law , on the population of the South ...
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... treason throws over the page recording them . The conclusion of this address sufficiently indicates both the high tone in which it was conceived , and the self - made weight of moral and patriotic obloquy the speaker should now feel in ...
... treason throws over the page recording them . The conclusion of this address sufficiently indicates both the high tone in which it was conceived , and the self - made weight of moral and patriotic obloquy the speaker should now feel in ...
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... treason . His faith in the Union was too great , his pride in the bounty of its institutions , under which men like himself had risen to eminence , too glorious , to comprehend how a hand could be raised against it . This very faith and ...
... treason . His faith in the Union was too great , his pride in the bounty of its institutions , under which men like himself had risen to eminence , too glorious , to comprehend how a hand could be raised against it . This very faith and ...
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... and ruthless spirit here and there in the border States . Secret societies , " Southern Leagues " and orders were created , and now and then this seething cauldron of treason boiled over on the LIFE OF ANDREW JOHNSON . 187.
... and ruthless spirit here and there in the border States . Secret societies , " Southern Leagues " and orders were created , and now and then this seething cauldron of treason boiled over on the LIFE OF ANDREW JOHNSON . 187.
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The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson: Including His State Papers ... John Savage Vista de fragmentos - 1866 |
The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson: Including His State Papers ... John Savage Vista de fragmentos - 1866 |
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Página 7 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Página 20 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Página 383 - Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States...
Página 324 - I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the...
Página 373 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Página 251 - ... of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Página 324 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. "GENERAL: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Página 371 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Página 251 - ... that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Página 7 - And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o