A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - Počet stran: 404 |
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Strana xxii
... to the United States of a coaling station at Samana ; probably a very fair ground of opposition , considering the slave - trading and annexation propensities of the then dominant faction in America . ERRATA . P. 57 , line 13 from bottom ,
... to the United States of a coaling station at Samana ; probably a very fair ground of opposition , considering the slave - trading and annexation propensities of the then dominant faction in America . ERRATA . P. 57 , line 13 from bottom ,
Strana 7
... ground for food ; supplying all wants which it could not meet from the soil itself by the produce of its timber , its whale and cod fisheries , and its ship - building . The main element of wealth in the South , on the other side , as ...
... ground for food ; supplying all wants which it could not meet from the soil itself by the produce of its timber , its whale and cod fisheries , and its ship - building . The main element of wealth in the South , on the other side , as ...
Strana 12
... ground . The " Declaration of Independence " ( 4th of July , 1776 ) , penned by Thomas Jefferson , of Virginia , and afterwards but slightly altered from his draft , affords the true starting - point of the history of the United States ...
... ground . The " Declaration of Independence " ( 4th of July , 1776 ) , penned by Thomas Jefferson , of Virginia , and afterwards but slightly altered from his draft , affords the true starting - point of the history of the United States ...
Strana 38
... ground that in ten years * three- fourths of the states will be unanimous in seeking to amend the constitution , so as to destroy the slave- power . After a provision adopting the debts and engage- ments of the Confederation , it is ...
... ground that in ten years * three- fourths of the states will be unanimous in seeking to amend the constitution , so as to destroy the slave- power . After a provision adopting the debts and engage- ments of the Confederation , it is ...
Strana 51
... ground ; that peace , by lulling to sleep the more gene- rous impulses , by removing the dangers of slave insurrections , by increasing the value of slave - property , was beginning to give a new direction to public feeling . Yet when ...
... ground ; that peace , by lulling to sleep the more gene- rous impulses , by removing the dangers of slave insurrections , by increasing the value of slave - property , was beginning to give a new direction to public feeling . Yet when ...
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Strana 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Strana 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Strana 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
Strana 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Strana 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Strana 27 - 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; 7.
Strana 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Strana 22 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Strana 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Strana 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...