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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... called the " Volunteer State . " He said : " Not content with that invidious comparison between regular and volunteer troops , the Senator from Georgia must needs arraign the State I represent . It is true I am not her native son , but ...
... called the " Volunteer State . " He said : " Not content with that invidious comparison between regular and volunteer troops , the Senator from Georgia must needs arraign the State I represent . It is true I am not her native son , but ...
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... called on to vote . After these conventions , on the one side and the other , have chosen a President , the freemen of this country are brought up to the ballot - box and taken through the ridiculous mockery of voting for electors . I ...
... called on to vote . After these conventions , on the one side and the other , have chosen a President , the freemen of this country are brought up to the ballot - box and taken through the ridiculous mockery of voting for electors . I ...
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... called on to attend to matters of that sort . If he had been a representative from some one of the large cities , or some great commercial thoroughfare , where the wants and requirements of the army were matters of public discussion ...
... called on to attend to matters of that sort . If he had been a representative from some one of the large cities , or some great commercial thoroughfare , where the wants and requirements of the army were matters of public discussion ...
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... called . According to the ritual of the Order , there were originally but two de- grees in it — one designed for the purification of the ballot- box , the other to check corruption in the dispensing of Government patronage and the ...
... called . According to the ritual of the Order , there were originally but two de- grees in it — one designed for the purification of the ballot- box , the other to check corruption in the dispensing of Government patronage and the ...
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... called by some a consolidated Government , as it is possible for a man to be ; but while I am greatly opposed to that , I want a Government strong enough to preserve its own existence ; that will not fall to pieces by its own weight ...
... called by some a consolidated Government , as it is possible for a man to be ; but while I am greatly opposed to that , I want a Government strong enough to preserve its own existence ; that will not fall to pieces by its own weight ...
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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.