Life of Gen. Ben HarrisonWinter & Company, 1888 - 578 páginas |
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... American Navy - Miscellane- ous Politics - Crimes Against the Ballot - Suppression of the Re- publican Vote - Control by the Majority - Public Lands - Trusts and " Combines " —Anarchists - Prohibition and the Third Party— The Soldier's ...
... American Navy - Miscellane- ous Politics - Crimes Against the Ballot - Suppression of the Re- publican Vote - Control by the Majority - Public Lands - Trusts and " Combines " —Anarchists - Prohibition and the Third Party— The Soldier's ...
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... American people , when sitting in judgment upon an individual who has ventured to claim their attention and bespeak their good will , care little for his ancestry . It is the person himself that is on trial . They know that good fathers ...
... American people , when sitting in judgment upon an individual who has ventured to claim their attention and bespeak their good will , care little for his ancestry . It is the person himself that is on trial . They know that good fathers ...
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... America , and found refuge in its impenetrable woods . That , however , was not his way . He remained at home , was ... American Harrisons . The proofs do not exactly sustain the assertion . The date of the emigration of the descendants ...
... America , and found refuge in its impenetrable woods . That , however , was not his way . He remained at home , was ... American Harrisons . The proofs do not exactly sustain the assertion . The date of the emigration of the descendants ...
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... immortal inscription attached to his name— SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . He is recorded as having married a Miss Bas- sett , Thenceforward the genealogy of the American Harrisons is removed from 22 BENJAMIN HARRISON .
... immortal inscription attached to his name— SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . He is recorded as having married a Miss Bas- sett , Thenceforward the genealogy of the American Harrisons is removed from 22 BENJAMIN HARRISON .
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Lew Wallace, George Alfred Townsend. Thenceforward the genealogy of the American Harrisons is removed from doubt . The Carter tree referred to shows several children born to the second Benjamin , of whom William Henry Harrison was second ...
Lew Wallace, George Alfred Townsend. Thenceforward the genealogy of the American Harrisons is removed from doubt . The Carter tree referred to shows several children born to the second Benjamin , of whom William Henry Harrison was second ...
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Página 243 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery.
Página 240 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory...
Página 244 - That to the union of the States this nation owes its unprecedented increase in population, its surprising development of material resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness; at home, and its honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for disunion, come from whatever source they may...
Página 434 - His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble ; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback.
Página 242 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Página 329 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently to be regarded in the courts of justice, as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Página 329 - But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract, when either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, not the judicial department; and the legislature must execute the contract before it can become a rule for the
Página 242 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
Página 434 - It will be the duty of the Historian and the Sage in all ages to let no occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man ; and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of WASHINGTON ! APPENDIX.
Página 329 - A treaty is in its nature a contract between two nations, not a legislative act. It does not generally effect, of itself, the object to be accomplished, especially so far as its operation is infraterritorial; but is carried into execution by the sovereign power of the respective parties to the instrument.