The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea Bunce & Huntington, 1865 - 288 páginas |
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... passed both branches of the General Assembly , at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both in- justice and bad policy ; but ...
... passed both branches of the General Assembly , at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both in- justice and bad policy ; but ...
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... passed an act calling a Convention , and openly announced its determination not to submit to the election . How rapidly they followed up their determination by action , we need not detail here . While Mr. Lincoln awaited at Springfield ...
... passed an act calling a Convention , and openly announced its determination not to submit to the election . How rapidly they followed up their determination by action , we need not detail here . While Mr. Lincoln awaited at Springfield ...
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... passed through Baltimore , and he took an earlier train to baffle the plot . Many at the time treated this as an idle fear ; but the evidence is beyond all dispute . Threats had been current that he would never live to be in- augurated ...
... passed through Baltimore , and he took an earlier train to baffle the plot . Many at the time treated this as an idle fear ; but the evidence is beyond all dispute . Threats had been current that he would never live to be in- augurated ...
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... passed Congress , to the effect that the Federal Govern- ment shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of States , including that of persons held to service . To avoid misconstruction of what I have said , I depart from my ...
... passed Congress , to the effect that the Federal Govern- ment shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of States , including that of persons held to service . To avoid misconstruction of what I have said , I depart from my ...
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... passed an act to raise an army of 100,000 men . Such was his position . The South not only defied the Gen- eral Government , but menaced the North . The President could not , with the barons of old England , say merely , Nolumus mutare ...
... passed an act to raise an army of 100,000 men . Such was his position . The South not only defied the Gen- eral Government , but menaced the North . The President could not , with the barons of old England , say merely , Nolumus mutare ...
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Página 28 - Resolved, 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 51 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds ;. to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan ; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Página 44 - ... that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Página 33 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Página 44 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 32 - Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Página 46 - 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; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress, passed during the existing rebellion, with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Página 35 - By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.
Página 37 - 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 32 - All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guarantees and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed -with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.