The Great Round World and what is Going on in it, Issue 186

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W. B. Harrison, 1900

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Page 270 - The President sympathizes heartily in the desire of all the people of the United States that the war which is now afflicting South Africa may, for the sake of both parties engaged, come to a speedy close: but, having done his full duty in preserving a strictly neutral position between them and in seizing the first opportunity that presented itself for tendering his good offices in the interests of peace, he feels that in the present circumstances no course is open to him except to persist in the...
Page 271 - Constitution, was conferred and held, solely in accordance with the terms of that instrument and laws passed pursuant thereto, so that, in respect of an elective office, a determination of the result of an election, in the manner provided, adverse to a claimant, could not be regarded as a deprivation forbidden by that amendment.
Page 272 - ... citizen has been deprived, without due process of law, of an office held by him under the constitution and laws of his State.
Page 271 - Louisiana by an apdent's excuse. peal to the "guarantee clause" of the Constitution, under which the United States guarantees to every State a republican form of government, and protection against domestic violence. But he declared that while he felt bound to intervene, he found it an "exceedingly unpalatable...

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