The Comprehensive History of the Southern Rebellion and the War for the Union: Embodying Also Important State Papers, Congressional Proceedings, Official Reports, Remarkable Speeches, Etc., Etc, Volumen1J. D. Torrey, 1862 - 512 páginas |
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... Delegates . North Carolina Commissioners . How- ell Cobb's Speech from the Chair . Constitution Adopted . Its Special Clauses . Election 329 CHAPTER XXIII . - Continued . Proceedings up to February 16th ...... : XXIV . Proceedings of ...
... Delegates . North Carolina Commissioners . How- ell Cobb's Speech from the Chair . Constitution Adopted . Its Special Clauses . Election 329 CHAPTER XXIII . - Continued . Proceedings up to February 16th ...... : XXIV . Proceedings of ...
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... delegates from so many States , different from each other in their manners , circumstances and prejudices , should unite in forming a sys- tem of national government so little liable to Pending discussion of the merits and de- merits of ...
... delegates from so many States , different from each other in their manners , circumstances and prejudices , should unite in forming a sys- tem of national government so little liable to Pending discussion of the merits and de- merits of ...
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... delegates were elected to confer with delegates from the other New England States . Seven dele- gates were also appointed by Connecticut and four by Rhode Island . New Hampshire was represented by two and Vermont by one . The Convention ...
... delegates were elected to confer with delegates from the other New England States . Seven dele- gates were also appointed by Connecticut and four by Rhode Island . New Hampshire was represented by two and Vermont by one . The Convention ...
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... delegates to another Convention to meet at Boston , " with such powers and instructions as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require . " The sessions of the Convention , like those New States to be admitted by a vote of two ...
... delegates to another Convention to meet at Boston , " with such powers and instructions as the exigency of a crisis so momentous may require . " The sessions of the Convention , like those New States to be admitted by a vote of two ...
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... delegates was thereupon ordered to assemble on the 19th of Novem- ber , to act for the State , in the crisis . Mean- while the Virginia Legislature , also , by a vote of 154 to 68 , gave her assent to the principle of nullification ...
... delegates was thereupon ordered to assemble on the 19th of Novem- ber , to act for the State , in the crisis . Mean- while the Virginia Legislature , also , by a vote of 154 to 68 , gave her assent to the principle of nullification ...
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Página 46 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Página 45 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. — But, the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 90 - Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Página 45 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 54 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Página 377 - Colonies from the motherland; 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. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.
Página 45 - Citizens, by birth, or choice, of a common country, tha't country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 377 - 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 motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Página 18 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Página 62 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political : peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none : the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies : the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...