North AmericaHarper & Brothers, 1862 - Počet stran: 623 |
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... CAUSES OF THE WAR . Causes of the War - Abolition ........ CHAPTER XXIV . WASHINGTON TO ST . LOUIS . Leaving Washington - Profit made on the purchase of Ships - The Cap- ital of Pennsylvania - Railway Accident - Pittsburg - Cincinnati ...
... CAUSES OF THE WAR . Causes of the War - Abolition ........ CHAPTER XXIV . WASHINGTON TO ST . LOUIS . Leaving Washington - Profit made on the purchase of Ships - The Cap- ital of Pennsylvania - Railway Accident - Pittsburg - Cincinnati ...
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... causes which have led to it , and of its probable termina- tion . But I wish it to be understood that it was not my se- lected task to do so , and is not now my primary object . Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Ameri ...
... causes which have led to it , and of its probable termina- tion . But I wish it to be understood that it was not my se- lected task to do so , and is not now my primary object . Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Ameri ...
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... cause to be proud of my work . But it is very hard to write about any country a book that does not represent the country described in a more or less ri- diculous point of view . It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must ...
... cause to be proud of my work . But it is very hard to write about any country a book that does not represent the country described in a more or less ri- diculous point of view . It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must ...
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... caused to us in England . Such certainly had been my belief as to the country . I speak here of my opinion as to the ultimate success of secession and the folly of the war , -repudiating any concurrence of my own in the ignoble but ...
... caused to us in England . Such certainly had been my belief as to the country . I speak here of my opinion as to the ultimate success of secession and the folly of the war , -repudiating any concurrence of my own in the ignoble but ...
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... caused the separation ; and for another to say that slavery has not caused it . Each in so saying speaks the truth . Slavery has caused it , seeing that slavery is the great point on which the two have agreed to dif fer . But slavery ...
... caused the separation ; and for another to say that slavery has not caused it . Each in so saying speaks the truth . Slavery has caused it , seeing that slavery is the great point on which the two have agreed to dif fer . But slavery ...
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Strana 612 - 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...
Strana 605 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.
Strana 616 - United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Strana 615 - 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...
Strana 608 - ... 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...
Strana 616 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Strana 265 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Strana 612 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Strana 604 - WHEREAS the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...
Strana 604 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in congress assembled.