North AmericaHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 623 pages |
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... secession with an arrogance and instant press- ure which exasperates the North ; and the North , forgetting that an equable temper in such matters is the most powerful of all weapons , will not recognize the strength of its own posi ...
... secession with an arrogance and instant press- ure which exasperates the North ; and the North , forgetting that an equable temper in such matters is the most powerful of all weapons , will not recognize the strength of its own posi ...
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... secession and the folly of the war , -repudiating any concurrence of my own in the ignoble but natural sentiment alluded to in the last par- agraph . I certainly did think that the Northern States , if wise , would have let the Southern ...
... secession and the folly of the war , -repudiating any concurrence of my own in the ignoble but natural sentiment alluded to in the last par- agraph . I certainly did think that the Northern States , if wise , would have let the Southern ...
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... secession . I do not say that in other respects the two cases were parallel . The States separated from us because they would not endure taxation without representation - in oth- er words because they were old enough and big enough to ...
... secession . I do not say that in other respects the two cases were parallel . The States separated from us because they would not endure taxation without representation - in oth- er words because they were old enough and big enough to ...
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... secession made by Ireland , and the line which was then taken by American sympathies . It is not too much to say that America then believed that Ireland would secure secession , and that the great trust of the Irish repealers was in the ...
... secession made by Ireland , and the line which was then taken by American sympathies . It is not too much to say that America then believed that Ireland would secure secession , and that the great trust of the Irish repealers was in the ...
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... secession on the part of the South has been rev- olutionary ; that is to say , that it has been undertaken and carried on not in compliance with the Constitution of the United States , but in defiance of it . This has been done over and ...
... secession on the part of the South has been rev- olutionary ; that is to say , that it has been undertaken and carried on not in compliance with the Constitution of the United States , but in defiance of it . This has been done over and ...
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Page 605 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever ; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another shall present a petition to congress, stating the matter in question and praying for...
Page 618 - The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having Jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 610 - Legislature thereof, for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year ; of the second class...
Page 605 - ... refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear or defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one...
Page 613 - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
Page 605 - ... to appoint by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question...
Page 606 - ... the United States in Congress assembled ; But if the United States in Congress assembled, shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any state should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its...
Page 604 - No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted...
Page 613 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Page 612 - States; 3 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...