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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... already forewarned ; they owe it to Mr. Johnson , to justice , and to truth , that they should be forearmed also . In order to properly appreciate the author's purpose in this humble effort , the reader must have in view PREFACE .
... already forewarned ; they owe it to Mr. Johnson , to justice , and to truth , that they should be forearmed also . In order to properly appreciate the author's purpose in this humble effort , the reader must have in view PREFACE .
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... effort , the reader must have in view the object and design aimed at . It is not to narrate startling adven- tures , nor to describe amusing and entertaining incidents in human affairs , nor to inculcate any peculiar views of gov ...
... effort , the reader must have in view the object and design aimed at . It is not to narrate startling adven- tures , nor to describe amusing and entertaining incidents in human affairs , nor to inculcate any peculiar views of gov ...
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... Efforts for Retrenchment measures - Constitutional Objections to the Pacific Railroad Bill - Views on Presidential Conventions - Cost of a Pacific Railroad - The true philoso- phy of Mr. Johnson's Political Creed 61 · CHAPTER VII . The ...
... Efforts for Retrenchment measures - Constitutional Objections to the Pacific Railroad Bill - Views on Presidential Conventions - Cost of a Pacific Railroad - The true philoso- phy of Mr. Johnson's Political Creed 61 · CHAPTER VII . The ...
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... Efforts of Southern Members to get out of Congress before a Compromise could be made - Charge that the Free States would amend the Constitution when in a Majority , and abolish Slavery - How did Congress do ? -Fixed Purpose to break up ...
... Efforts of Southern Members to get out of Congress before a Compromise could be made - Charge that the Free States would amend the Constitution when in a Majority , and abolish Slavery - How did Congress do ? -Fixed Purpose to break up ...
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... effort to get a vote on it in that body , yet they failed in getting action on it . At the succeeding short session ... efforts in its behalf will be postponed till his senatorial career is explained and commented on . CHAPTER V ...
... effort to get a vote on it in that body , yet they failed in getting action on it . At the succeeding short session ... efforts in its behalf will be postponed till his senatorial career is explained and commented on . CHAPTER V ...
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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.