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... currency bureau and of the various Departments and bureaus of the Government which have been created during the twelve years that intervened between those periods . two Now , the fact that the salaries of the offi- cers of the ...
... currency bureau and of the various Departments and bureaus of the Government which have been created during the twelve years that intervened between those periods . two Now , the fact that the salaries of the offi- cers of the ...
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... currency . The only other evidence in support of the assumption that he paid me $ 329 , as a balance on the stock , is found in the entries in his diary for 1868. The value of this class of memoranda depends altogether 21.
... currency . The only other evidence in support of the assumption that he paid me $ 329 , as a balance on the stock , is found in the entries in his diary for 1868. The value of this class of memoranda depends altogether 21.
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... currency — in defiance of all past experience , we have been steadily conquering our difficulties , have escaped the predicted collapse , and are promptly meet- ing our engagements ; because , through energetic rail- road development ...
... currency — in defiance of all past experience , we have been steadily conquering our difficulties , have escaped the predicted collapse , and are promptly meet- ing our engagements ; because , through energetic rail- road development ...
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... currency convertible into coin at the will of the holder . That was and had been for several generations the almost unanimous opinion of the American people . It is true there was here and there a theorist , dreaming of the ...
... currency convertible into coin at the will of the holder . That was and had been for several generations the almost unanimous opinion of the American people . It is true there was here and there a theorist , dreaming of the ...
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... currency was and is - so known in the courts and so known everywhere - a forced loan , a loan forced by the Government upon its Army and upon its other cred- itors to meet the great emergencies of the war ; and the primary fact ...
... currency was and is - so known in the courts and so known everywhere - a forced loan , a loan forced by the Government upon its Army and upon its other cred- itors to meet the great emergencies of the war ; and the primary fact ...
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Página 6 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Página 16 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Página 6 - Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of " don't care if slavery is voted up or voted down...
Página 19 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Página 12 - The day will come when in the State of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith.
Página 38 - Such was he: his work is done. But while the races of mankind endure Let his great example stand Colossal, seen of every land, And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure; Till in all lands and thro' all human story The path of duty be the way to glory.
Página 7 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 9 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 46 - Major, February 23, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico...
Página 8 - I believe that I have not so much of the confidence of the people as I had some time since, I do not know that, all things considered, any other person has more; and, however this may be, there is no way in which I can have any other man put where I am. I am here. I must do the best I can, and bear the responsibility of taking the course which I feel I ought to take.