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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... stand by and aid still in maintaining the constitution of the country . To make a point of resistance to the Government , to withdraw from it because a man has been constitu- tionally elected , puts us in the wrong . We are pledged to ...
... stand by and aid still in maintaining the constitution of the country . To make a point of resistance to the Government , to withdraw from it because a man has been constitu- tionally elected , puts us in the wrong . We are pledged to ...
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... standing on the deck , with the Constitution of the United States waving over our heads . ( Applause . ) Let the fanatics of the North break the Constitution , if such is their fell purpose . Let the responsibility be upon them . I ...
... standing on the deck , with the Constitution of the United States waving over our heads . ( Applause . ) Let the fanatics of the North break the Constitution , if such is their fell purpose . Let the responsibility be upon them . I ...
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... to maintain it longer ; and if they cannot be maintained in the Union , standing on the Georgia platforın , where I have stood from the time of its adoption , I would be in favor of SPEECH OF HON . A. H. STEPHENS . 13.
... to maintain it longer ; and if they cannot be maintained in the Union , standing on the Georgia platforın , where I have stood from the time of its adoption , I would be in favor of SPEECH OF HON . A. H. STEPHENS . 13.
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... stands out bold , high , and prominent like your Stone Mountain , to which the gentleman alluded in illustrating home facts in his record - this great fact of our unrivalled prosperity in the Union as it is admitted ; whether all this ...
... stands out bold , high , and prominent like your Stone Mountain , to which the gentleman alluded in illustrating home facts in his record - this great fact of our unrivalled prosperity in the Union as it is admitted ; whether all this ...
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... standing where Georgia planted herself in 1850. These were plain proposi- tions which were then laid down in her celebrated platform as sufficient for the disruption of the Union if the occasion should ever come ; on these Georgia has ...
... standing where Georgia planted herself in 1850. These were plain proposi- tions which were then laid down in her celebrated platform as sufficient for the disruption of the Union if the occasion should ever come ; on these Georgia has ...
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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.