The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 18Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... government . In regard to the Oregon boundary - line , and the threatened difficulty with the British Government , he sustained the policy of President Polk . He was a strenuous advocate of retrenchment in the expenses of the Government ...
... government . In regard to the Oregon boundary - line , and the threatened difficulty with the British Government , he sustained the policy of President Polk . He was a strenuous advocate of retrenchment in the expenses of the Government ...
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... Government in possession of the whole country . Once in possession , this Government is not merely bound . to rely on the possessory title , but is cast back upon her more ancient right , acquired by treaty from France in 1803 , which ...
... Government in possession of the whole country . Once in possession , this Government is not merely bound . to rely on the possessory title , but is cast back upon her more ancient right , acquired by treaty from France in 1803 , which ...
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... Government , under the treaty- making power , the entire jurisdiction and right inure to this Government ; or , in other words , the territory so acquired becomes the property and creature of the States composing the Union at the time ...
... Government , under the treaty- making power , the entire jurisdiction and right inure to this Government ; or , in other words , the territory so acquired becomes the property and creature of the States composing the Union at the time ...
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... Government to give the land away , and thereby induce its settlement and cultivation . " It ought to be readily seen what immense advantage the Government would derive from giving the land to the culti- vators , instead of keeping it on ...
... Government to give the land away , and thereby induce its settlement and cultivation . " It ought to be readily seen what immense advantage the Government would derive from giving the land to the culti- vators , instead of keeping it on ...
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... Government . In the short session of Congress in the winter of 1858 , he introduced a resolution for the purpose , and made a strong effort to have the whole danger- ous subject of retrenchment fully investigated , but without success ...
... Government . In the short session of Congress in the winter of 1858 , he introduced a resolution for the purpose , and made a strong effort to have the whole danger- ous subject of retrenchment fully investigated , but without success ...
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Page 466 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Page 246 - I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm), 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, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God.
Page 472 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Page 372 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 264 - ... 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; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 258 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 469 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 278 - Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden provisional governor of the State of North Carolina...
Page 277 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 324 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.