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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... believe the fugitive slave law was a treaty between Federal Government . Not one word is said about sections . It was the act of sovereign States as sec- the violations of the Constitution in expenditures tions ; and I believe ...
... believe the fugitive slave law was a treaty between Federal Government . Not one word is said about sections . It was the act of sovereign States as sec- the violations of the Constitution in expenditures tions ; and I believe ...
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... believe , and so do I , that there has been a perversion of the Constitution in relation to im- posts for the purpose of protection to domestic manufac- tures . I know of no time , from the period of my entering college in 1823 , that I ...
... believe , and so do I , that there has been a perversion of the Constitution in relation to im- posts for the purpose of protection to domestic manufac- tures . I know of no time , from the period of my entering college in 1823 , that I ...
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... believe this Union their motives in so doing . Nor will I undertake to say that rity , entertain different views from me on this subjeet . I this government of our fathers is perfect . There is nothing perfect in this world of a human ...
... believe this Union their motives in so doing . Nor will I undertake to say that rity , entertain different views from me on this subjeet . I this government of our fathers is perfect . There is nothing perfect in this world of a human ...
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... believe every other Southern man . So we ought not to complain of that . Mr. TOOMBS . The tariff lessened the duties . problematical . On the one side we can only put the fact against speculation and conjecture on the other . But even ...
... believe every other Southern man . So we ought not to complain of that . Mr. TOOMBS . The tariff lessened the duties . problematical . On the one side we can only put the fact against speculation and conjecture on the other . But even ...
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... believe , had that policy been carried out at that time , we would have been the same great people that we are today ? It may be that we would , but have you any assurance of that fact ? Would you have made the same advancement ...
... believe , had that policy been carried out at that time , we would have been the same great people that we are today ? It may be that we would , but have you any assurance of that fact ? Would you have made the same advancement ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Ambrose W amendment Amos Myers Ancona arms army arrest Asahel W authority Beaman Benjamin F bill Blair Brown Charles O'Neill citizens civil Clark command Committee Confederate Congress Conkling Constitution Convention Court Davis Dawes declared district Dixon Doolittle duty Edgerton election Eliot Executive Eyck Federal Fessenden follows Fort Sumter Francis fugitive slave Gooch Government Grider Grimes habeas corpus Hale Harlan Harris Henry Winter Davis hereby Holman House Hutchins insurrection James John H Johnson Kellogg Lane of Indiana Lane of Kansas Legislature Leonard Myers loyal Mallory ment military Moorhead Morrill nays NAYS-Messrs officers Orlando Kellogg peace Pendleton persons Pomeroy Powell President proclamation rebel rebellion resolution Resolved Rice Rollins Roscoe Conkling Saulsbury secession Secretary Senate Sherman slavery South Carolina Sumner territory thereof Thomas tion Trumbull Union United Vallandigham Virginia vote Wade Washburne William G Wilson Windom writ of habeas YEAS-Messrs
Pasajes populares
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.