The American Annual Cyclopędia and Register of Important Events of the Year, Volume 6D. Appleton and Company, 1868 |
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... Federal Congress. guide to the speculations on this topic in which the agricultural papers indulged . It was not difficult to approximate nearly to the numbers of live stock in the Northern States east of the Rocky Mountains , and this ...
... Federal Congress. guide to the speculations on this topic in which the agricultural papers indulged . It was not difficult to approximate nearly to the numbers of live stock in the Northern States east of the Rocky Mountains , and this ...
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... Federal Congress , operated in an oppressive manner upon the productive labor of the State . A bale of cot- ton weighing five hundred pounds was taxed fifteen dollars ; to this was added the income- tax of five per cent . , which ...
... Federal Congress , operated in an oppressive manner upon the productive labor of the State . A bale of cot- ton weighing five hundred pounds was taxed fifteen dollars ; to this was added the income- tax of five per cent . , which ...
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... Federal tax of 1861 , assigned to Alabama , was $ 529,313 . Nothing had been collected at the close of the year . The amount of destitution in the State ex- ceeded that of any other Southern State , and continued through the year ...
... Federal tax of 1861 , assigned to Alabama , was $ 529,313 . Nothing had been collected at the close of the year . The amount of destitution in the State ex- ceeded that of any other Southern State , and continued through the year ...
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... Federal Relations . On December 8th the following resolution was offered : That this General Assembly , and the people of the State of Arkansas , tender our gratitude to General Jefferson Davis , for the noble and patriotic manner in ...
... Federal Relations . On December 8th the following resolution was offered : That this General Assembly , and the people of the State of Arkansas , tender our gratitude to General Jefferson Davis , for the noble and patriotic manner in ...
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... Federal Diet . The Prussian Government having maintained , in a note of June 3d , that Austria , by the proposition made at the Federal Diet , had violated the treaty of Gastein , and thereby justified Prussia in falling back upon the ...
... Federal Diet . The Prussian Government having maintained , in a note of June 3d , that Austria , by the proposition made at the Federal Diet , had violated the treaty of Gastein , and thereby justified Prussia in falling back upon the ...
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Page 189 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 201 - 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 125 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 314 - ... 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 146 - 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 194 - An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Page 157 - 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 182 - ... of these provisions is just. They are all asserted, in some form or other, in our DECLARATION or organic law. But the Constitution limits only the action of Congress, and is not a limitation on the States. This amendment supplies that defect, and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all.
Page 194 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Page 224 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives are prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time by law alter such regulations, or make new ones, except as to the places of choosing senators.