Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the United States; and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United StatesT.B. Peterson & brothers, 1864 - 171 Seiten |
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... force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after General Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Department that , in his opinion , no such movement was necessary to the defence or pro- tection of ...
... force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after General Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Department that , in his opinion , no such movement was necessary to the defence or pro- tection of ...
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... force , he admitted , in what fell from the Chairman of the Committee on Territories . It might be that there was no precise justice in raising the price of the reserved sections to $ 2.50 per acre . It might be proper that the price ...
... force , he admitted , in what fell from the Chairman of the Committee on Territories . It might be that there was no precise justice in raising the price of the reserved sections to $ 2.50 per acre . It might be proper that the price ...
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... force and effect on and after the day of such procla- mation . " Sec . 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall in nowise be prohibited by this act . " Sec . 8 ...
... force and effect on and after the day of such procla- mation . " Sec . 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall in nowise be prohibited by this act . " Sec . 8 ...
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... force in his . conclusions , which were perfectly irresistible . The vast throng were silent as death ; every eye was fixed upon the speaker , and all ́ gave him serious attention . He was the tall man elo- quent ; his countenance ...
... force in his . conclusions , which were perfectly irresistible . The vast throng were silent as death ; every eye was fixed upon the speaker , and all ́ gave him serious attention . He was the tall man elo- quent ; his countenance ...
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... wear off insensibly ; and their place be , pari passu , filled up by free white laborers . If , on the contrary , it is left to force itself on , human nature must shudder at the LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 59.
... wear off insensibly ; and their place be , pari passu , filled up by free white laborers . If , on the contrary , it is left to force itself on , human nature must shudder at the LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 59.
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Seite 97 - 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...
Seite 91 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Seite 94 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Seite 94 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Seite 134 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Seite 95 - By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Seite 108 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Seite 134 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Seite 93 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Seite 83 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.