The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1867 |
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... the year 1867 , by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK PREFACE . IF the close of an internal war forms.
... the year 1867 , by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK PREFACE . IF the close of an internal war forms.
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... close of an internal war forms the most critical moment in the career of a nation , especially when that war has involved the nature and existence of the institutions of a country , then there can be no period so important to the people ...
... close of an internal war forms the most critical moment in the career of a nation , especially when that war has involved the nature and existence of the institutions of a country , then there can be no period so important to the people ...
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... close of the year 1865 . The territory on the Senegal only was several times invaded by native chiefs , who were , how- ever , without difficulty , driven beyond the French settlements . The area of Africa , and its population , con ...
... close of the year 1865 . The territory on the Senegal only was several times invaded by native chiefs , who were , how- ever , without difficulty , driven beyond the French settlements . The area of Africa , and its population , con ...
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... close of December , at 1,750,000 bales of 400 pounds each . As the actual bales are now nearly 500 pounds each , this would be equivalent to a million and a half of such bales . The cotton - planters had expected , early in the season ...
... close of December , at 1,750,000 bales of 400 pounds each . As the actual bales are now nearly 500 pounds each , this would be equivalent to a million and a half of such bales . The cotton - planters had expected , early in the season ...
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... close estimate for the whole country . We give in the foregoing table the numbers of live stock for each of the States and Territories this side the Rocky Mountains , and the estimates of the Agricultural Department for the whole ...
... close estimate for the whole country . We give in the foregoing table the numbers of live stock for each of the States and Territories this side the Rocky Mountains , and the estimates of the Agricultural Department for the whole ...
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Page 202 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 214 - ... the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 316 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 148 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses concurring.) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 196 - An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Page 128 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 14 - By the surrender the inhabitants passed under a temporary allegiance to the British government, and were bound by such laws, and such only, as it chose to recognize and impose.
Page 183 - Union, according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But whenever in any State the elective franchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens not less than twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation in such {State shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male...
Page 132 - I am satisfied that the mass of thinking men of the south accept the present situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which have heretofore divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections — slavery and State rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union — they regard as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal — arms — that man can resort to.
Page 127 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.