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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... citizens , so that there shall be no denial of rights on account of color or race ; but justice shall be impar- tial , and all shall be equal before the law . 3. The rejection of the rebel debt , and at the same debt and the national ...
... citizens , so that there shall be no denial of rights on account of color or race ; but justice shall be impar- tial , and all shall be equal before the law . 3. The rejection of the rebel debt , and at the same debt and the national ...
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... citizens who have been always loyal to the United States are excluded from the elective franchise , and especially where the wounded soldier of the Union , with all his kindred and race , and also the kindred of others whose bones ...
... citizens who have been always loyal to the United States are excluded from the elective franchise , and especially where the wounded soldier of the Union , with all his kindred and race , and also the kindred of others whose bones ...
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... citizens or naturalized foreigners . Congress shall provide for ascertaining the number of said voters . A true ... citizen , and no dis- color . Mr. Broomall , of Pennsylvania , introduced a joint resolution to alter the Constitution of ...
... citizens or naturalized foreigners . Congress shall provide for ascertaining the number of said voters . A true ... citizen , and no dis- color . Mr. Broomall , of Pennsylvania , introduced a joint resolution to alter the Constitution of ...
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... citizens , who share both its pecuniary and mil- itary burdens , the right to express either their con- sent or dissent to the laws which subject them to taxation and to military duty , and which refuses them fall protection in the ...
... citizens , who share both its pecuniary and mil- itary burdens , the right to express either their con- sent or dissent to the laws which subject them to taxation and to military duty , and which refuses them fall protection in the ...
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... citizens of those States toward the General Government . The State of Virginia being so accessible to Wash- ington city , and information from this quarter there- fore being readily obtained , I hastened through the State without ...
... citizens of those States toward the General Government . The State of Virginia being so accessible to Wash- ington city , and information from this quarter there- fore being readily obtained , I hastened through the State without ...
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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.