Echoes from the South: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Public Acts Emanating from the South During the Late WarE. B. Treat & Company, 1866 - 211 Seiten |
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... department of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges , I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can without the loss of power , or any essential right or interest , remain in the ...
... department of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges , I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can without the loss of power , or any essential right or interest , remain in the ...
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... proceeded to exercise its separate sovereignty ; adopted for itself a Constitution , and appointed officers for the administration of government in all its departments -Legislative , Executive 46 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH .
... proceeded to exercise its separate sovereignty ; adopted for itself a Constitution , and appointed officers for the administration of government in all its departments -Legislative , Executive 46 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH .
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... departments -Legislative , Executive and Judicial . For pur- poses of defence they united their arms and their counsels ; and , in 1778 , they entered into a League known as the Articles of Confederation , whereby they agreed to intrust ...
... departments -Legislative , Executive and Judicial . For pur- poses of defence they united their arms and their counsels ; and , in 1778 , they entered into a League known as the Articles of Confederation , whereby they agreed to intrust ...
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... Department , the means of subverting the Constitution itself . A geographical line has been drawn across the Union , and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the ...
... Department , the means of subverting the Constitution itself . A geographical line has been drawn across the Union , and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the ...
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... departments shall have the privilege of seats upon the floor of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives - shall have the right to participate in the debates and discussions upon the various subjects of administration . I should have ...
... departments shall have the privilege of seats upon the floor of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives - shall have the right to participate in the debates and discussions upon the various subjects of administration . I should have ...
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Seite 56 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 47 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Seite 57 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Seite 112 - Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment...
Seite 85 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Seite 46 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Seite 125 - The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of the next session ; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reap126 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH. pointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
Seite 52 - States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions ; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution ; they have denounced as sinful the institution of Slavery...
Seite 125 - President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty ; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
Seite 107 - The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment; except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.