The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction: (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,) Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses. With the Votes Thereon; Together with the Action, Congressional and State, on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Other Important Executive, Legislative, Politico-military, and Judicial Facts of that PeriodJ.J. Chapman, 1880 - 652 páginas |
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... Rebel Debt , Colored Suffrage , Anti - Slavery Amendment , Admission to Congress of Senators and Representatives elect - President Lincoln's Letter to Governor Hahn , March 13 , 1864 , on Colored Suffrage , and his Telegram of April 12 ...
... Rebel Debt , Colored Suffrage , Anti - Slavery Amendment , Admission to Congress of Senators and Representatives elect - President Lincoln's Letter to Governor Hahn , March 13 , 1864 , on Colored Suffrage , and his Telegram of April 12 ...
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... Rebel States - Elective Franchise in the Territories - Female Suffrage , and Intelligence Suffrage - Test - Oath of Attor neys - Validating certain Proclamations and Acts of the President - Homesteads in South- ern States - To suspend ...
... Rebel States - Elective Franchise in the Territories - Female Suffrage , and Intelligence Suffrage - Test - Oath of Attor neys - Validating certain Proclamations and Acts of the President - Homesteads in South- ern States - To suspend ...
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... Rebel- lion - Proclaiming a General Amnesty - Order respecting the Transaction of Public Business -Correcting an Error in previous Proclama- tion - Orders respecting Reconstruction . XXXI . Members of the Cabinet and the 40th Congress ...
... Rebel- lion - Proclaiming a General Amnesty - Order respecting the Transaction of Public Business -Correcting an Error in previous Proclama- tion - Orders respecting Reconstruction . XXXI . Members of the Cabinet and the 40th Congress ...
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... rebel- lion , except as hereinafter excepted , amnesty and pardon , with restoration of all rights of property , except as to slaves , and except in cases where Tegal proceedings , under the laws of the United States providing for the ...
... rebel- lion , except as hereinafter excepted , amnesty and pardon , with restoration of all rights of property , except as to slaves , and except in cases where Tegal proceedings , under the laws of the United States providing for the ...
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... rebel States , lands under their control , keeping a record there- or from any district of country within the terri- of themselves , and forwarding monthly to the tory embraced in the operations of the army , Commissioner copies of ...
... rebel States , lands under their control , keeping a record there- or from any district of country within the terri- of themselves , and forwarding monthly to the tory embraced in the operations of the army , Commissioner copies of ...
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Página 217 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Página 9 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President. if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of...
Página 367 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
Página 234 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Página 12 - 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...
Página 82 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Página 120 - ... justice. humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Página 102 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 159 - ... duration of its power; and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate -a multitude ; yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes ; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department, that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy,...
Página 123 - April 9, 1865. GENERAL :— I received your note of this morning on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.