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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... slave ler , of the American army , reached the bay population . Bounties were offered to im- on which the city is ... slaves , South Carolina was regarded as the naldo , and General Miller made prepara- wealthiest of the colonies ...
... slave ler , of the American army , reached the bay population . Bounties were offered to im- on which the city is ... slaves , South Carolina was regarded as the naldo , and General Miller made prepara- wealthiest of the colonies ...
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... slaves , of whom there were in the country at that time about 500,000 , nearly one sixth of the entire population ; and they , as a class , together with our Indian neighbors - I. cluded from the ranks of those who par- ticipated in the ...
... slaves , of whom there were in the country at that time about 500,000 , nearly one sixth of the entire population ; and they , as a class , together with our Indian neighbors - I. cluded from the ranks of those who par- ticipated in the ...
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... Slaves , though constituting nearly , if not quite , 16 per cent . of the population , were not reckoned among the political forces to be respect ed . Indians , likewise , were excluded . The Constitution of the United States opens thus ...
... Slaves , though constituting nearly , if not quite , 16 per cent . of the population , were not reckoned among the political forces to be respect ed . Indians , likewise , were excluded . The Constitution of the United States opens thus ...
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... slavery that is past , and the negro is find- ing his place in American life gradually , both as a race and as an individual . The reform necessary in the administration of Indian affairs is : Let the Indian admin- ister his own affairs ...
... slavery that is past , and the negro is find- ing his place in American life gradually , both as a race and as an individual . The reform necessary in the administration of Indian affairs is : Let the Indian admin- ister his own affairs ...
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... slaves , and having an ex- tensive trade with the Southern cities . Many of them enlisted - some with the Nationals , some with the Confederates- and at the close of the war the tribes were reduced to poverty . Since then , however ...
... slaves , and having an ex- tensive trade with the Southern cities . Many of them enlisted - some with the Nationals , some with the Confederates- and at the close of the war the tribes were reduced to poverty . Since then , however ...
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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.