The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration; and an Appendix Containing the Principal Political Facts of the Campaign of 1864, a Chapter on the Church and the Rebellion, and the Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-eighth CongressJ.J. Chapman, 1882 - 655 Seiten |
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... Justice illustrate the practical working of the Emanci- pation policy , and will amply justify attention . To the action of the last session of Congress , and the record of the Presidential canvass which preceded it — of the result of ...
... Justice illustrate the practical working of the Emanci- pation policy , and will amply justify attention . To the action of the last session of Congress , and the record of the Presidential canvass which preceded it — of the result of ...
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... Justice Taney's Opinion - Attorney General Bates's Opinion on the President's Power to Arrest and to Suspend the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus - Views of Horace Binney and Theophilus Parsons - Case of C. L. Vallandigham ...
... Justice Taney's Opinion - Attorney General Bates's Opinion on the President's Power to Arrest and to Suspend the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus - Views of Horace Binney and Theophilus Parsons - Case of C. L. Vallandigham ...
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... justice fugitives charged alleged , voted for a " sectional candidate , " and with murder , and with inciting servile insurrection in the the latter as to the allegation that Pennsylvania State of Virginia . Thus the constitutional ...
... justice fugitives charged alleged , voted for a " sectional candidate , " and with murder , and with inciting servile insurrection in the the latter as to the allegation that Pennsylvania State of Virginia . Thus the constitutional ...
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... justice to our cause . Sir , to whom are we to speak ? Is it simply to the North ? We are about to sunder our relations with that section , and I trust forever . Our treaties , I suppose , will be with the nations of Eu- rope . Do you ...
... justice to our cause . Sir , to whom are we to speak ? Is it simply to the North ? We are about to sunder our relations with that section , and I trust forever . Our treaties , I suppose , will be with the nations of Eu- rope . Do you ...
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... justice under the compact . It was then I would gest the propriety of leaving out all topics of that descrip- tion . when I believe that three of these States differ in sentiment with South Carolina . It appears to me , there- fore , we ...
... justice under the compact . It was then I would gest the propriety of leaving out all topics of that descrip- tion . when I believe that three of these States differ in sentiment with South Carolina . It appears to me , there- fore , we ...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ... Edward McPherson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1882 |
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Ambrose W amendment Amos Myers Ancona arms army arrest Asahel W authority Beaman Benjamin F bill Blair Brown Charles O'Neill citizens civil Clark command Committee Confederate Congress Conkling Constitution Convention Court Davis Dawes declared district Dixon Doolittle duty Edgerton election Eliot Executive Eyck Federal Fessenden follows Fort Sumter Francis fugitive slave Gooch Government Grider Grimes habeas corpus Hale Harlan Harris Henry Winter Davis hereby Holman House Hutchins insurrection James John H Johnson Kellogg Lane of Indiana Lane of Kansas Legislature Leonard Myers loyal Mallory ment military Moorhead Morrill nays NAYS-Messrs officers Orlando Kellogg peace Pendleton persons Pomeroy Powell President proclamation rebel rebellion resolution Resolved Rice Rollins Roscoe Conkling Saulsbury secession Secretary Senate Sherman slavery South Carolina Sumner territory thereof Thomas tion Trumbull Union United Vallandigham Virginia vote Wade Washburne William G Wilson Windom writ of habeas YEAS-Messrs
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Seite 255 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 107 - 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 225 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Seite 107 - 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 89 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Seite 174 - 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 107 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Seite 192 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Seite 106 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Seite 220 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.