A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - Počet stran: 404 |
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Strana vii
... Slavery in the United States of America , " and from two admir- able articles on American slavery , published by M. Elisée Reclus , in the " Revue des Deux Mondes , " 15th December , 1860 , and 1st January , 1861. The details of naval ...
... Slavery in the United States of America , " and from two admir- able articles on American slavery , published by M. Elisée Reclus , in the " Revue des Deux Mondes , " 15th December , 1860 , and 1st January , 1861. The details of naval ...
Strana xii
... slavery is concerned , the South has every possible reason for remaining in the Union . " It may be said , he adds ( page 136 ) , " that the accession of the Republican party to power pro- duced an apprehension that the strength of the ...
... slavery is concerned , the South has every possible reason for remaining in the Union . " It may be said , he adds ( page 136 ) , " that the accession of the Republican party to power pro- duced an apprehension that the strength of the ...
Strana xiii
... slaves . But such a condition would then be enforced by a strong government , and demanded by a rival power . Again , the agitation against slavery , though it will continue , will cease to be a matter of party politics , and this will ...
... slaves . But such a condition would then be enforced by a strong government , and demanded by a rival power . Again , the agitation against slavery , though it will continue , will cease to be a matter of party politics , and this will ...
Strana xix
... SLAVERY QUESTION AS RESPECTS THE TERRITORIES ( Monroe , to 1825 ; J. G. Adams , 1825-9 . ) FROM THE PRESIDENCY LECTURE V. OF GENERAL JACKSON TO THE END OF SLAVERY THAT OF MR . VAN BUREN ( 1829-1841 ) -THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POWER ...
... SLAVERY QUESTION AS RESPECTS THE TERRITORIES ( Monroe , to 1825 ; J. G. Adams , 1825-9 . ) FROM THE PRESIDENCY LECTURE V. OF GENERAL JACKSON TO THE END OF SLAVERY THAT OF MR . VAN BUREN ( 1829-1841 ) -THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN POWER ...
Strana 5
... slavery . For that southern soil , teem- ing with the elements of wealth , teemed equally with those of death . The swampy lowlands , which are best adapted to the growth of rice , —the tangled tropical forests which had to be cleared ...
... slavery . For that southern soil , teem- ing with the elements of wealth , teemed equally with those of death . The swampy lowlands , which are best adapted to the growth of rice , —the tangled tropical forests which had to be cleared ...
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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...