Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885J. A. and R. A. Reid, 1885 - 726 páginas |
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... LOUISIANA RECLAIMED CONFISCATION AND RASCAL- ITY WINTER DAVIS ' BILL ARKANSAS HER EARLY MOVE- MENTS -RADICALS IN CHARGE- -LEGISLATIVE CRUDITIES CON- SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS BOTH TYRANNICAL - THE POLAND COMMITTEE - GARLAND SAVES THE STATE ...
... LOUISIANA RECLAIMED CONFISCATION AND RASCAL- ITY WINTER DAVIS ' BILL ARKANSAS HER EARLY MOVE- MENTS -RADICALS IN CHARGE- -LEGISLATIVE CRUDITIES CON- SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS BOTH TYRANNICAL - THE POLAND COMMITTEE - GARLAND SAVES THE STATE ...
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... Louisiana would assuredly follow the erratic course of South Carolina . The waves of the Gulf were making accordant music in the revolutionary anthem ; and as the dashings of their surges were but the echoes of the excesses of the North ...
... Louisiana would assuredly follow the erratic course of South Carolina . The waves of the Gulf were making accordant music in the revolutionary anthem ; and as the dashings of their surges were but the echoes of the excesses of the North ...
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... Louisiana and Florida were then foreign territories . If Mr. Jefferson had had for colleagues , Mr. Madison and George Mason , Patrick Henry , or George Wythe , the vote of Virginia would have been in favor of this anti - slavery ...
... Louisiana and Florida were then foreign territories . If Mr. Jefferson had had for colleagues , Mr. Madison and George Mason , Patrick Henry , or George Wythe , the vote of Virginia would have been in favor of this anti - slavery ...
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... Louisiana as a state . He was sustained in this course by his constituents . He contended that it was a flagrant violation of the Constitu- tion , because there was no provision for the admission of states formed on territories which ...
... Louisiana as a state . He was sustained in this course by his constituents . He contended that it was a flagrant violation of the Constitu- tion , because there was no provision for the admission of states formed on territories which ...
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... Louisiana as a state . The first great anti - slavery agitation arose in connection with the meas- ures looking to the admission of Missouri as a state of the Union . The American emigrants to that country had gone chiefly from Virginia ...
... Louisiana as a state . The first great anti - slavery agitation arose in connection with the meas- ures looking to the admission of Missouri as a state of the Union . The American emigrants to that country had gone chiefly from Virginia ...
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Página 262 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Página 338 - 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 the decision of the Supreme Court...
Página 336 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Página 602 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility...
Página 102 - That to this compact each state accede,d as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party : That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the...
Página 348 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Página 160 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 696 - Sec. 3. That, in each state entitled under this apportionment, the number to which such state may be entitled in the 53d and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of inhabitants.
Página 371 - Under this article of the constitution it rests with congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, congress -must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
Página 338 - 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; and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court. So help me God.