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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... blood had been shed on American soil , he offered , on the 22d of December , the fol- lowing resolutions : - Whereas , the President of the United States , in his Message of May 11 , 1846 , has declared that ' the Mexican government ...
... blood had been shed on American soil , he offered , on the 22d of December , the fol- lowing resolutions : - Whereas , the President of the United States , in his Message of May 11 , 1846 , has declared that ' the Mexican government ...
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... blood of our fellow - citizens on our own soil . " And again , in his Message of December 8 , 1846 , that ' we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities ; but even then we forbore to take redress ...
... blood of our fellow - citizens on our own soil . " And again , in his Message of December 8 , 1846 , that ' we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities ; but even then we forbore to take redress ...
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... blood was shed , as in his mes- sage declared , were , or were pot , at that time , armed officers and soldiers sent into that settlement by the military order of the Presi- dent , through the Secretary of War . " 8th . Whether the ...
... blood was shed , as in his mes- sage declared , were , or were pot , at that time , armed officers and soldiers sent into that settlement by the military order of the Presi- dent , through the Secretary of War . " 8th . Whether the ...
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... blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ago , so , still it must be said , that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether . " With malice towards none ...
... blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword , as was said three thousand years ago , so , still it must be said , that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether . " With malice towards none ...
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... blood , he seated himself in the hall , and soon after fainted away and was laid upon the floor . Upon the return of consciousness de- ponent was taken in a carriage to his residence . " In the review of the transaction , it is the ...
... blood , he seated himself in the hall , and soon after fainted away and was laid upon the floor . Upon the return of consciousness de- ponent was taken in a carriage to his residence . " In the review of the transaction , it is the ...
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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.