A Political Manual for 1866: Including a Classified Summary of the Important Executive, Legislative, and Politico-military Facts of the Period from President Johnson's Accession ... to July 4, 1866 ...Philp & Solomons, 1866 - 128 pages |
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... Committee on Reconstruction ...... 84-101 VIII . Votes on Proposed Constitutional Amendments .... 102-106 On Constitutional Amendment as finally adopted - The Accompanying Bilis - The Amendment on Repre- sentation and Direct Taxes -- On ...
... Committee on Reconstruction ...... 84-101 VIII . Votes on Proposed Constitutional Amendments .... 102-106 On Constitutional Amendment as finally adopted - The Accompanying Bilis - The Amendment on Repre- sentation and Direct Taxes -- On ...
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... committee reported against ratifying the anti - slavery amendment , for reasons given ; and the Legislature adopted it . GEORGIA . 1865 , May 3 - Gov . Joseph E. Brown issue proclamation calling an extra meeting of t Legislature for 22d ...
... committee reported against ratifying the anti - slavery amendment , for reasons given ; and the Legislature adopted it . GEORGIA . 1865 , May 3 - Gov . Joseph E. Brown issue proclamation calling an extra meeting of t Legislature for 22d ...
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... Committee on Federal Relations , who recommended the appointment of a special joint committee of both IIouses to inquire into the amount of such debt due by the State , and to whom due ; and to report at the next regular session of the ...
... Committee on Federal Relations , who recommended the appointment of a special joint committee of both IIouses to inquire into the amount of such debt due by the State , and to whom due ; and to report at the next regular session of the ...
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... committee of the Sen- ate and House of Delegates of Virginia called upon the President , for the purpose of present- ing him with resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia . After some remarks by Mr. John B. Baldwin ...
... committee of the Sen- ate and House of Delegates of Virginia called upon the President , for the purpose of present- ing him with resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia . After some remarks by Mr. John B. Baldwin ...
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... committee which had waited upon him and presented him with the resolutions which had been adopted , the President said : The resolutions , as I under- stand them , are complimentary of the policy which has been adopted and pursued by ...
... committee which had waited upon him and presented him with the resolutions which had been adopted , the President said : The resolutions , as I under- stand them , are complimentary of the policy which has been adopted and pursued by ...
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Page 10 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 4 - The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation...
Page 3 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 1 - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 4 - He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may on extraordinary occasions convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of...
Page 6 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page 62 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 88 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 104 - Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired. Justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 106 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...