The Criterion: Which Exhibits Portraits of the Three Candidates, Facts in the Lives of Each, the Platforms of the Three Parties, and the Constitution of the United States ...J.C. Buttre, 1856 - 30 pages |
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... father of the subject of this sketch , intermarried with Phoebe Millard , daughter of Doctor Abiathar Millard , of Pittsfield , Mass . , a lady whose many virtues and domestic accomplishments will survive the stone on which they stand ...
... father of the subject of this sketch , intermarried with Phoebe Millard , daughter of Doctor Abiathar Millard , of Pittsfield , Mass . , a lady whose many virtues and domestic accomplishments will survive the stone on which they stand ...
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... fathers in their successful Revolutionary struggle , and hitherto manifested to us , their descendents , in the preservation of the lib- erties , the independence and the union of these States . 2. The perpetuation of the Federal Union ...
... fathers in their successful Revolutionary struggle , and hitherto manifested to us , their descendents , in the preservation of the lib- erties , the independence and the union of these States . 2. The perpetuation of the Federal Union ...
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... father died wide engaged in prevarios en France . Young Fremont shortly afterwards emered the by offce of J. W. Kachel of Charleston , S. C ; ad trough the mines of this redeman , was placed in the school of In Zum Eiberson of the same ...
... father died wide engaged in prevarios en France . Young Fremont shortly afterwards emered the by offce of J. W. Kachel of Charleston , S. C ; ad trough the mines of this redeman , was placed in the school of In Zum Eiberson of the same ...
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... father died while engaged in preparations to return to France . Young Fremont shortly afterwards entered the law office of J. W. Mitchell , of Charleston , S. C .; and , through the kindness of this gentleman , was placed at the school ...
... father died while engaged in preparations to return to France . Young Fremont shortly afterwards entered the law office of J. W. Mitchell , of Charleston , S. C .; and , through the kindness of this gentleman , was placed at the school ...
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... father , and consequently had to be performed clandestinely by a Roman Catholic priest , in the absence of any other clergyman bold enough to officiate . In 1842 , he started on his first great exploring expedition to discover a pass ...
... father , and consequently had to be performed clandestinely by a Roman Catholic priest , in the absence of any other clergyman bold enough to officiate . In 1842 , he started on his first great exploring expedition to discover a pass ...
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Page 27 - All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be...
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Page 30 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...