The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, Volumen2James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... taken alarm and the free sentiment lacked form and directness of motive , so that when Van Buren succeeded Jackson , in 1837 , the slavery question was a perplexity , but not yet an issue . Most men had theories upon the sub- ject , but ...
... taken alarm and the free sentiment lacked form and directness of motive , so that when Van Buren succeeded Jackson , in 1837 , the slavery question was a perplexity , but not yet an issue . Most men had theories upon the sub- ject , but ...
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... taken to erect a stockade fort . On the twenty - eighth the defenses were completed , and the fort was named in honor of the commander , Harrison . A small garrison , commanded by Lieutenant - Colonel Miller , was stationed at the fort ...
... taken to erect a stockade fort . On the twenty - eighth the defenses were completed , and the fort was named in honor of the commander , Harrison . A small garrison , commanded by Lieutenant - Colonel Miller , was stationed at the fort ...
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... Henry Harrison as the ninth President of the United States . John Tyler had already taken the oath of office as Vice - President . After the delivery of an appropriate address to the Senate by. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON . 673.
... Henry Harrison as the ninth President of the United States . John Tyler had already taken the oath of office as Vice - President . After the delivery of an appropriate address to the Senate by. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON . 673.
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... taken in September . On reassembling in December , the senate refused to confirm . the appointment of Taney as secretary of the treasury ; it took the same action when , a few days later , his name was sent in for confirmation as judge ...
... taken in September . On reassembling in December , the senate refused to confirm . the appointment of Taney as secretary of the treasury ; it took the same action when , a few days later , his name was sent in for confirmation as judge ...
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... taken up in the senate , and a bill introduced containing the same pro- visions , with a single exception - that relating to the establishment of branches . The executive bill authorized the corporation to establish a bank for discount ...
... taken up in the senate , and a bill introduced containing the same pro- visions , with a single exception - that relating to the establishment of branches . The executive bill authorized the corporation to establish a bank for discount ...
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial ... Benson John Lossing Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 920 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 872 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 920 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 912 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Página 853 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Página 885 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 971 - The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant and self-reliant ; and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you.
Página 981 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy...
Página 864 - I sincerely hope Father may yet recover his health; but at all events tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great, and good, and merciful Maker, who will not turn away from him in any extremity. He notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads; and He will not forget the dying man who puts his trust in Him.
Página 1000 - Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political...