Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of Reconstruction in the Southern StatesG.P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 544 páginas At head of title: "Public duty is my only master." |
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... attention to those topics which appear to be most pressing . Our earliest and most earnest attention should be directed to the subject of the collection , appropriation , and disbursement of the pub- lic funds . These matters are ...
... attention to those topics which appear to be most pressing . Our earliest and most earnest attention should be directed to the subject of the collection , appropriation , and disbursement of the pub- lic funds . These matters are ...
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... attention must be directed to the practical means of carrying out this system . Grave dissatisfaction with our tax laws has existed during the past six years . The most general and urgent complaint has been that the valuations placed ...
... attention must be directed to the practical means of carrying out this system . Grave dissatisfaction with our tax laws has existed during the past six years . The most general and urgent complaint has been that the valuations placed ...
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... attention to the subject as one of fundamental importance to the whole people . The people demand , and they have a right to demand , that property shall be valued for taxation at its true money value , as nearly as the imperfection of ...
... attention to the subject as one of fundamental importance to the whole people . The people demand , and they have a right to demand , that property shall be valued for taxation at its true money value , as nearly as the imperfection of ...
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... attention will be given to this subject , and that if , upon examina- tion , the number therein provided for is found to be the lowest number consistent with the proper transaction of business , the law will remain undisturbed . The ...
... attention will be given to this subject , and that if , upon examina- tion , the number therein provided for is found to be the lowest number consistent with the proper transaction of business , the law will remain undisturbed . The ...
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... attention to this subject . Nothing can exceed it in importance . Consideration for the public good demands such action as will finally close the doors to a recurrence of the reckless expenditures which have attended our recent ...
... attention to this subject . Nothing can exceed it in importance . Consideration for the public good demands such action as will finally close the doors to a recurrence of the reckless expenditures which have attended our recent ...
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Página 509 - ... to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as shall be judged necessary ; having first observed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect.
Página 401 - Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Página 117 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 268 - Republican party stands sacredly pledged. The power to provide for the enforcement of the principles embodied in the recent constitutional amendments is vested by those amendments in the Congress of the United States, and we declare it to be the solemn obligation of the legislative...
Página 420 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly to provide, from time to time, for the registration of all electors; but the following class of persons shall not be permitted to register, vote, or hold office: 1st.
Página 269 - States; and we declare it to be the solemn obligation of the legislative and executive departments of the government to put into immediate and vigorous exercise all their constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any class, and for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of all civil, political, and public rights. To this end we imperatively demand a Congress and a Chief Executive whose courage and fidelity to these...
Página 404 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Página 210 - I cannot attend your annual supper to-night ; but if there ever was an hour when the spirit of the Puritans, the spirit of undying, unconquerable enmity and defiance to wrong ought to animate their sons, it is this hour, here, in South Carolina. The civilization of the Puritan and the Cavalier, of the Roundhead and the Huguenot, is in peril.
Página 424 - State for the support of public schools, which tax shall be collected at the same time and by the same agents as the general State levy, and shall be paid into the treasury of the State.
Página 403 - Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.