The History of Arkansas: A Text-book for Public Schools, High Schools and Academies ...

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Wilson & Webb Book & Stationery Company, 1898 - 335 páginas

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III
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IV
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40
VI
51
VII
57
VIII
62
XXV
174
XXVI
183
XXVII
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XXX
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XXXI
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XXXIII
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XXXIV
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XII
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XIII
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XV
105
XVI
110
XVIII
122
XIX
137
XXI
145
XXIII
153
XXIV
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Página 196 - 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.
Página 52 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank...
Página 179 - Lincoln, he has, in the face of resolutions passed by this convention pledging the State of Arkansas to resist to the last extremity any attempt on the part of such power to coerce any State that...
Página 180 - Louisiana became a member of the Federal Union, be, and the same are hereby, repealed and abrogated ; and that the union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of the " United States of America,
Página 52 - Objections are raising to the eastward against the vast extent of our boundaries, and propositions are made to exchange Louisiana, or a part of it, for the Floridas. But, as I have said, we shall get the Floridas without, and I would not give one inch of the waters of the Mississippi to any nation...
Página 52 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Página 160 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Página 179 - ... submit to such rule or remain in the old union of the United States would be disgraceful and ruinous to the State of Arkansas ; Therefore, we, the people of the State of Arkansas, in Convention assembled, do hereby declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the "ordinance and acceptance of compact...
Página 179 - In answer to your requisition for troops from Arkansas, to subjugate the Southern States, I have to say that none will be furnished. The demand is only adding insult to injury. The people of this Commonwealth are freemen, not slaves, and will defend to the last extremity, their honor, lives, and property, against Northern mendacity and usurpation.
Página 52 - The instruments which we have just signed will cause no tears to be shed : they prepare ages of happiness for innumerable generations of human creatures. The Mississippi and Missouri will see them succeed one another, and multiply, truly worthy of the regard and care of Providence, in the bosom of equality, under just laws, freed from the errors of superstition and the scourges of bad government.

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