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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... received 80,403 votes , and Judge Green 68,814 , the vote be- ing the largest since 1868 . At the same time a new Legislature was elected , consisting of eighty - two Republicans and forty - two Democrats in the House of Representatives ...
... received 80,403 votes , and Judge Green 68,814 , the vote be- ing the largest since 1868 . At the same time a new Legislature was elected , consisting of eighty - two Republicans and forty - two Democrats in the House of Representatives ...
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... received equal benefit from one fifth of that sum , if ex- pended with economy upon proper objects . In practice , a contingent fund is a sum of money which a public officer is allowed to draw and expend without the usual accountability ...
... received equal benefit from one fifth of that sum , if ex- pended with economy upon proper objects . In practice , a contingent fund is a sum of money which a public officer is allowed to draw and expend without the usual accountability ...
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... received from the people , for their benefit , in correcting the abuses and corruptions which exist in all the departments of the government , his culture , learning , ability , and ambition will not save him from the fate of Scott and ...
... received from the people , for their benefit , in correcting the abuses and corruptions which exist in all the departments of the government , his culture , learning , ability , and ambition will not save him from the fate of Scott and ...
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... received the support of those who had supported Mr. Whipper ; but the reform Republicans supported Mr. Northrop , whose qual- ifications and character were unobjectionable . The Democrats supported Major Shaw , a lawyer and soldier ...
... received the support of those who had supported Mr. Whipper ; but the reform Republicans supported Mr. Northrop , whose qual- ifications and character were unobjectionable . The Democrats supported Major Shaw , a lawyer and soldier ...
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... receiving the returns and assessing and collecting the State and county taxes . There is also an unpaid claim of the same Company on account of work done for the Superin- tendent of Education , as stated at page 24 of that officer's ...
... receiving the returns and assessing and collecting the State and county taxes . There is also an unpaid claim of the same Company on account of work done for the Superin- tendent of Education , as stated at page 24 of that officer's ...
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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.