THE AMERICAN CONFLICT A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1860-641865 |
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... further back , and devotes more attention to the remoter , more recondite causes of our civil strife , than any rival . At all events , I have aimed to give a full and fair , though necessarily condensed , view of all that impelled to ...
... further back , and devotes more attention to the remoter , more recondite causes of our civil strife , than any rival . At all events , I have aimed to give a full and fair , though necessarily condensed , view of all that impelled to ...
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... further serviceable to me , in putting me on my guard against those monstrous exaggerations of the numbers opposed to them with which weak , incompetent , and worsted commanders habitually excuse , or seek to cover up , their failures ...
... further serviceable to me , in putting me on my guard against those monstrous exaggerations of the numbers opposed to them with which weak , incompetent , and worsted commanders habitually excuse , or seek to cover up , their failures ...
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... further action on the subject of the government of the western territory , raising a Select Committee thereon , of which Nathan Dane , of Massachusetts , was Chair- man . That committtee reported , July 11 , " An Ordinance for the ...
... further action on the subject of the government of the western territory , raising a Select Committee thereon , of which Nathan Dane , of Massachusetts , was Chair- man . That committtee reported , July 11 , " An Ordinance for the ...
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... further understood and declared , that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered , that , if Con- gress shall hereafter find it expedient , they shall have authority to form one or two States in that ...
... further understood and declared , that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered , that , if Con- gress shall hereafter find it expedient , they shall have authority to form one or two States in that ...
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... further domains expressly to increase its security and enlarge its power are guilty dreams which never trou- bled the repose of the great body of our Revolutionary sages and patriots . Enlightened by their own experience a moral , but a ...
... further domains expressly to increase its security and enlarge its power are guilty dreams which never trou- bled the repose of the great body of our Revolutionary sages and patriots . Enlightened by their own experience a moral , but a ...
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Página 42 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 266 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Página 41 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE i.
Página 35 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 41 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Página 84 - Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force : that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : that the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...
Página 423 - 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 41 - Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Página 41 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 41 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.