Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1906: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper & brothers, 1906 |
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... GOVERNOR . UNITED STATES SENATORS - Continued . Name . Richard M. Young . Samuel McRoberts . Sidney Breese .. James ... GOVERNORS . Shadrach Bond ........ assumes office .. ..assumes office . Edward Coles ......... 64 64 Ninian Edwards ...
... GOVERNOR . UNITED STATES SENATORS - Continued . Name . Richard M. Young . Samuel McRoberts . Sidney Breese .. James ... GOVERNORS . Shadrach Bond ........ assumes office .. ..assumes office . Edward Coles ......... 64 64 Ninian Edwards ...
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... governor of New York . He tried to keep the Eng- lish colony from trading on the Delaware , and his action in burning trading - houses and taking the traders prisoner involved the governor of New York in difficulty with the government ...
... governor of New York . He tried to keep the Eng- lish colony from trading on the Delaware , and his action in burning trading - houses and taking the traders prisoner involved the governor of New York in difficulty with the government ...
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... Governor St. Clair , in which he said : the mire . His body was dragged forward , " It is highly necessary that I should , and Church cut off his head , which as soon as possible , possess full informa- was borne on the point of a spear ...
... Governor St. Clair , in which he said : the mire . His body was dragged forward , " It is highly necessary that I should , and Church cut off his head , which as soon as possible , possess full informa- was borne on the point of a spear ...
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... governor called out for the use of the United States " certain the militia , who reluctantly obeyed . Then , duties ... governor's flight was abdication . Matters such duties for revenue . The necessity became so serious that the ...
... governor called out for the use of the United States " certain the militia , who reluctantly obeyed . Then , duties ... governor's flight was abdication . Matters such duties for revenue . The necessity became so serious that the ...
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... governor of Connecticut , for the benefit of those claiming under her , and similar letters - patent were used by ... GOVERNORS OF TERRITORY . William H. Harrison .. John Gibson ........... Thomas Posey . ..acting . .appointed ...
... governor of Connecticut , for the benefit of those claiming under her , and similar letters - patent were used by ... GOVERNORS OF TERRITORY . William H. Harrison .. John Gibson ........... Thomas Posey . ..acting . .appointed ...
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Página 429 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 427 - 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 429 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Página 279 - There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Página 431 - 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?
Página 427 - That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak? Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of...
Página 427 - Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality, shall be so great and so universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.
Página 431 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Página 135 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 389 - Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field was directed by the President to be promulgated in a general order (No.