Life and Times of Andrew Johnson: Seventeenth President of the United States. Written from a National Stand-pointD. Appleton and Company, 1866 - 363 páginas |
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... Government - Earnestness of Mr. Johnson's Views and his Anxiety to save the Union - Extracts from his Speech . • • 107 CHAPTER X. Second Speech exposing the heresy of Secession - Evils and Disasters foretold -The only man from eleven ...
... Government - Earnestness of Mr. Johnson's Views and his Anxiety to save the Union - Extracts from his Speech . • • 107 CHAPTER X. Second Speech exposing the heresy of Secession - Evils and Disasters foretold -The only man from eleven ...
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... Government , of Andrew Johnson , now President of the United States . The history of this distinguished man's life presents as forcible a commentary as could be written , on the peculiar structure of our Government and the influence and ...
... Government , of Andrew Johnson , now President of the United States . The history of this distinguished man's life presents as forcible a commentary as could be written , on the peculiar structure of our Government and the influence and ...
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... Government in possession of the whole country . Once in possession , this Government is not merely bound to rely on the possessory title , but is cast back upon her more ancient right , acquired by treaty from France in 1803 , which is ...
... Government in possession of the whole country . Once in possession , this Government is not merely bound to rely on the possessory title , but is cast back upon her more ancient right , acquired by treaty from France in 1803 , which is ...
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... Government , under the treaty - making power , the entire jurisdiction and right inure to this Government ; or , in other words , the territory so acquired becomes the property and creature of the States composing the Union at the time ...
... Government , under the treaty - making power , the entire jurisdiction and right inure to this Government ; or , in other words , the territory so acquired becomes the property and creature of the States composing the Union at the time ...
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... government would be lost , the equilibrium would be gone , and some two of the Departments would absorb the other . The result would be the concentration of all power in one De- partment . " From the foregoing remarks it will be seen ...
... government would be lost , the equilibrium would be gone , and some two of the Departments would absorb the other . The result would be the concentration of all power in one De- partment . " From the foregoing remarks it will be seen ...
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Página 141 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Página 151 - Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Página 144 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 27 - Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine.
Página 80 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of...
Página 141 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States, now in revolt against the constitutional Government...
Página i - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 266 - This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of war — those maxims of humanity, moderation, and honor — ought to be observed by both parties in every civil war.
Página 265 - When a party is formed in a State who no longer obey the sovereign, and are possessed of sufficient strength to oppose him — or when, in a Republic, the nation is divided into two opposite factions, and both sides take up arms — this is called a civil war.