A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volumen5Bureau of national literature, 1897 |
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... tion of the Constitution . The natural intendment would be that as the Constitution confined Congress to well - defined specific powers , the funds placed at their command , whether in land or money , should be appro- priated to the ...
... tion of the Constitution . The natural intendment would be that as the Constitution confined Congress to well - defined specific powers , the funds placed at their command , whether in land or money , should be appro- priated to the ...
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... time enough to strengthen their hands by further legisla- tion . Had it been decided that either Congress or the Territorial legis- ter . 24 lature possess the power to annul or impair the right 3085 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
... time enough to strengthen their hands by further legisla- tion . Had it been decided that either Congress or the Territorial legis- ter . 24 lature possess the power to annul or impair the right 3085 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
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... tion would thus be ended . On the other hand , when a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba , and thus all the world be closed against this trade , we may then indulge a reasonable hope for the gradual ...
... tion would thus be ended . On the other hand , when a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba , and thus all the world be closed against this trade , we may then indulge a reasonable hope for the gradual ...
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... tion at rest . Congress possess the sole and exclusive power under the Constitution " to declare war . " They alone can " raise and support armies ” and " provide and maintain a navy . " But after Congress shall have declared war and ...
... tion at rest . Congress possess the sole and exclusive power under the Constitution " to declare war . " They alone can " raise and support armies ” and " provide and maintain a navy . " But after Congress shall have declared war and ...
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... tion , but might even destroy its existence . The Army , the Navy , the judiciary , in short , every department of the Government , can no longer perform their functions if Congress refuse the money necessary for their support . If this ...
... tion , but might even destroy its existence . The Army , the Navy , the judiciary , in short , every department of the Government , can no longer perform their functions if Congress refuse the money necessary for their support . If this ...
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Página 3359 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Página 3456 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him ? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 3310 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Página 3300 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 3359 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Página 3211 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you...
Página 3310 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended...
Página 3337 - The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before.
Página 3210 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union.