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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... enemy . Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation ; and all hope of remedy is rendered vain , by the fact that the public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanctions of a more erroneous ...
... enemy . Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation ; and all hope of remedy is rendered vain , by the fact that the public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanctions of a more erroneous ...
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... enemies , who only seek to amuse you with delusive hope until your election , that you may defeat the friends of secession . If you are deceived by them , it shall not be my fault . I have put the test fairly and frankly . It is ...
... enemies , who only seek to amuse you with delusive hope until your election , that you may defeat the friends of secession . If you are deceived by them , it shall not be my fault . I have put the test fairly and frankly . It is ...
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... enemies , giving them aid and comfort . No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same , overt act , or on confession in open court . 2d . The Congress shall have power to declare the ...
... enemies , giving them aid and comfort . No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same , overt act , or on confession in open court . 2d . The Congress shall have power to declare the ...
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... , the well known resources for retaliation upon the commerce of an enemy . Experience in public stations of a subordinate grade to this which your kindness has conferred , has INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS . 143.
... , the well known resources for retaliation upon the commerce of an enemy . Experience in public stations of a subordinate grade to this which your kindness has conferred , has INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS . 143.
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... enemies , we must at first move cautiously . It may be that we shall have to encounter sacrifices ; but , my friends ... enemy we leave the base acts of the assassin and incendiary , to them we leave it to insult helpless women ; to us ...
... enemies , we must at first move cautiously . It may be that we shall have to encounter sacrifices ; but , my friends ... enemy we leave the base acts of the assassin and incendiary , to them we leave it to insult helpless women ; to us ...
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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.