Recollection of Men and Things at Washington, During the Third of a CenturyClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - Počet stran: 420 |
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Strana 251 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Strana 222 - That, fully indorsing these national sentiments, it is the duty of every good citizen of this Union to resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the slavery agitation, under whatever shape and color the attempt may be made.
Strana 278 - which will authorize or give Congress power to abolish or interfere in any State with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or servitude, by the laws of said State.
Strana 79 - notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism, to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country." . On the same day, a bill was reported
Strana 309 - The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Strana 392 - exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States, in the name of themselves and all the people of the United States, .against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, in maintenance and support of their Impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors in office.
Strana 251 - power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Strana 148 - parliamentary debate which he did not repeat, nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make. But the Senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity for accuracy, whether in stating the Constitution, or in stating the law,
Strana 81 - inconsistent with the avowed object of the war, contrary to the settled policy of the Government, in conflict with its character and genius, and in the end must be subversive of all our free and popular institutions ; and that no line of policy in the further prosecution of the war should be adopted which
Strana 392 - with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues; and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces, as well against Congress as the laws of the United States duly enacted thereby, amid the cries, jeers, and laughter of the multitudes then assembled and in hearing,