Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress, Band 24,Teile 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 - 822 Seiten |
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... negro on trial is equivalent to his conviction and sentence to the maximum penalty of the law . Yet these and many other manifestations betray to the resident observer the malignant temper of the majority of our people . A party exists ...
... negro on trial is equivalent to his conviction and sentence to the maximum penalty of the law . Yet these and many other manifestations betray to the resident observer the malignant temper of the majority of our people . A party exists ...
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... negro is inclined to work for him cheerfully ; but if he has been a severe mas- ter they are afraid of him . Some of the negroes have the idea that they may be run off further south , to Mexico or Cuba , into slavery . The negro has ...
... negro is inclined to work for him cheerfully ; but if he has been a severe mas- ter they are afraid of him . Some of the negroes have the idea that they may be run off further south , to Mexico or Cuba , into slavery . The negro has ...
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... negro's life in Tennessee ? Answer . You cannot call his life secure there . They are liable to be shot by the poor ... negro is great . I think the negro is anxious to accumulate property . I think , that the people down there are ...
... negro's life in Tennessee ? Answer . You cannot call his life secure there . They are liable to be shot by the poor ... negro is great . I think the negro is anxious to accumulate property . I think , that the people down there are ...
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... negro in Tennessee are the intensely rad- ical loyalists of the mountain district - the men who have been in our armies . Take East Tennessee , for instance . The great opposition to the measure in the Tennessee legislature , giving the ...
... negro in Tennessee are the intensely rad- ical loyalists of the mountain district - the men who have been in our armies . Take East Tennessee , for instance . The great opposition to the measure in the Tennessee legislature , giving the ...
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... negro ; they are disposed to ban the negro , to kick him and cuff him , and threaten him with what they will do as soon as the Yankees go away . Question . Is this feeling of dislike of the negro more intense and bitter with the lower ...
... negro ; they are disposed to ban the negro , to kick him and cuff him , and threaten him with what they will do as soon as the Yankees go away . Question . Is this feeling of dislike of the negro more intense and bitter with the lower ...
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Seite 84 - 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...
Seite 6 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Seite 85 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Seite 82 - That his Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, requested...
Seite 86 - The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit : Those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.
Seite 85 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience...
Seite 84 - 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.
Seite 40 - And that the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this Resolution into effect.
Seite 89 - In case of a disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment...
Seite 90 - In cases of treason he shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to grant reprieves and pardons, and he may, in the recess of the senate, respite the sentence until the end of the next session of the general assembly.