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... passed over his Veto - Motion to Impeach the President , and its Failure - Reconstruction Bill for the South ... Passing of a Constitutional Amendment regarding the Right of Suffrage CHAPTER LXIV . Inauguration of General Grant as ...
... passed over his Veto - Motion to Impeach the President , and its Failure - Reconstruction Bill for the South ... Passing of a Constitutional Amendment regarding the Right of Suffrage CHAPTER LXIV . Inauguration of General Grant as ...
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... passed in 1647 , providing that a school should be kept in every township having fifty householders , in which all the children who might resort to it should be taught to read and write . As the number of inhabitants increased , the ...
... passed in 1647 , providing that a school should be kept in every township having fifty householders , in which all the children who might resort to it should be taught to read and write . As the number of inhabitants increased , the ...
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... passed a Tariff Bill which exceeded even that of 1824 in illiberality towards foreign countries . The Act passed on the 15th of May , 1828. It levied very heavy protec- tive duties on woollen and cotton fabrics , as well as on other ...
... passed a Tariff Bill which exceeded even that of 1824 in illiberality towards foreign countries . The Act passed on the 15th of May , 1828. It levied very heavy protec- tive duties on woollen and cotton fabrics , as well as on other ...
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... passed without any events of note ; but 1832 was not so tranquil . On the 9th of January the Senate received a petition from the officers of the United States Bank , praying for a renewal of the charter granted in 1816 , near the close ...
... passed without any events of note ; but 1832 was not so tranquil . On the 9th of January the Senate received a petition from the officers of the United States Bank , praying for a renewal of the charter granted in 1816 , near the close ...
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... passed laws in support of the resolution thus expressed , and recommended that the authorities should re- quest the withdrawal of certain United States troops which had been stationed there to guard against a slave - insurrection . The ...
... passed laws in support of the resolution thus expressed , and recommended that the authorities should re- quest the withdrawal of certain United States troops which had been stationed there to guard against a slave - insurrection . The ...
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Página 253 - Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Página 152 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 584 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 584 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 242 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Página 262 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 408 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 252 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it...
Página 239 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Página 200 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...