The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volumen18Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... reasons were always his own . This ingredient of char- acter early attracted the notice of the eminent and sagacious John Quincy Adams , so long an ornament of the House , who spoke of him as an acute and original thinker , and foresaw ...
... reasons were always his own . This ingredient of char- acter early attracted the notice of the eminent and sagacious John Quincy Adams , so long an ornament of the House , who spoke of him as an acute and original thinker , and foresaw ...
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... reasons which led him to that conclusion . The next morning , as he expected , Mr. Ewing called on him for his advice about his course before the convention that day . Jones told him of Johnson's advantages in the field , and reminded ...
... reasons which led him to that conclusion . The next morning , as he expected , Mr. Ewing called on him for his advice about his course before the convention that day . Jones told him of Johnson's advantages in the field , and reminded ...
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... reasons for placing him among those who would , in every emergency , be defenders of the Union . As the signs of the times became more doubtful and dark , his position became more open and satisfactory to the friends of the Union in the ...
... reasons for placing him among those who would , in every emergency , be defenders of the Union . As the signs of the times became more doubtful and dark , his position became more open and satisfactory to the friends of the Union in the ...
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... reason from premise to conclusion with unerring certainty , but he was as often wrong in taking his premises as anybody else . Admit his premises , and you were swept off by the conclusions ; but look at his premises , and he was just ...
... reason from premise to conclusion with unerring certainty , but he was as often wrong in taking his premises as anybody else . Admit his premises , and you were swept off by the conclusions ; but look at his premises , and he was just ...
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... reason , it was maintained , he himself went with the South , and was willing to represent a part of his State in what was quite consequentially called the " Confederate Congress . " In a speech in the Senate , March 2 , 1861 , Mr ...
... reason , it was maintained , he himself went with the South , and was willing to represent a part of his State in what was quite consequentially called the " Confederate Congress . " In a speech in the Senate , March 2 , 1861 , Mr ...
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Página 466 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Página 457 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Página 472 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Página 258 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 469 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 372 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Página 109 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Página 278 - Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden provisional governor of the State of North Carolina...
Página 277 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Página 324 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.