The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration; and an Appendix Containing the Principal Political Facts of the Campaign of 1864, a Chapter on the Church and the Rebellion, and the Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-eighth CongressJ.J. Chapman, 1882 - 655 páginas |
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... amendments , nor the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the Constitution , nor the third ... amendment striking out the whole , and inserting a substitute declaring that the in- dependence of the seceded ...
... amendments , nor the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the Constitution , nor the third ... amendment striking out the whole , and inserting a substitute declaring that the in- dependence of the seceded ...
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... amendments to the Con- stitution of the United States as shall secure to all the States equal rights in the Union , and declaring strongly against secession . 16th . An amendment to the fifth resolu tion of the majority report of the ...
... amendments to the Con- stitution of the United States as shall secure to all the States equal rights in the Union , and declaring strongly against secession . 16th . An amendment to the fifth resolu tion of the majority report of the ...
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... amendment . February 21st . Mr. Davis . I should like the Senate to take up a little bill which I hope will excite no discussion . It is the bill to authorize the States to purchase arms from the National Armories . There are a number ...
... amendment . February 21st . Mr. Davis . I should like the Senate to take up a little bill which I hope will excite no discussion . It is the bill to authorize the States to purchase arms from the National Armories . There are a number ...
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... amendment " of the Constitution on the subject of slavery . This might originate with Congress or the State Legislatures , as may be deemed most advisable to attain the object . The explanatory amendment might be confined to the final ...
... amendment " of the Constitution on the subject of slavery . This might originate with Congress or the State Legislatures , as may be deemed most advisable to attain the object . The explanatory amendment might be confined to the final ...
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... amendment of the Constitu- tion in the following particulars : Making it the duty of Congress to pass laws to ... amendments to the Constitution , which guarantees exemption from unreasonable searches and seizures , etc. By Mr. SHERMAN ...
... amendment of the Constitu- tion in the following particulars : Making it the duty of Congress to pass laws to ... amendments to the Constitution , which guarantees exemption from unreasonable searches and seizures , etc. By Mr. SHERMAN ...
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Página 255 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 107 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 225 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Página 107 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
Página 89 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Página 174 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 107 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Página 192 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Página 106 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Página 220 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.