The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 14John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond A. S. Barnes., 1885 - United States |
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... Copy of Testimonial from the Union Defence Committee - Copy of Letter from Prosper M. Wetmore - Scene in the Marble Room of the Capitol , from a photograph - The Seventh Regiment camping in the Hall of Representatives , from a ...
... Copy of Testimonial from the Union Defence Committee - Copy of Letter from Prosper M. Wetmore - Scene in the Marble Room of the Capitol , from a photograph - The Seventh Regiment camping in the Hall of Representatives , from a ...
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... Copy of Testimonial from the Union Defence Committee - Copy of Letter from Prosper M. Wetmore - Scene in the Marble Room of the Capitol , from a photograph - The Seventh Regiment camping in the Hall of Representatives , from a ...
... Copy of Testimonial from the Union Defence Committee - Copy of Letter from Prosper M. Wetmore - Scene in the Marble Room of the Capitol , from a photograph - The Seventh Regiment camping in the Hall of Representatives , from a ...
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... copies of the Charleston . Mercury proclaiming the DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION and the Virginia Ordinance of SECESSION . General Thomas Jordan , C.S.A. , the well - known Confederate General , writes a terse , readable , and critical paper ...
... copies of the Charleston . Mercury proclaiming the DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION and the Virginia Ordinance of SECESSION . General Thomas Jordan , C.S.A. , the well - known Confederate General , writes a terse , readable , and critical paper ...
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Page 529 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution : for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 529 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and I believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Page 376 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the continuance of Congress and their authorities and privileges, until a given day after the reform of the articles of Union shall be adopted, and for the completion of all their engagements. 13. Resolved that provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union whensoever it shall seem necessary, and that the assent of the National Legislature ought not to be required thereto.
Page 376 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 376 - Resolved, that the amendments which shall be offered to the Confederation, by the Convention, ought, at a proper time or times, after the approbation of Congress, to be submitted to an assembly or assemblies of representatives, recommended by the several Legislatures, to be expressly chosen by the people to consider and decide thereon.
Page 165 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 373 - ... to them in the Union by the Constitution — no one of them ever having been a State out of the Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence; and the new ones each came into the Union directly from a condition of dependence, excepting Texas. And even Texas, in its temporary independence, was never designated a State. The new ones only took the designation of States on coming into the Union, while that name was first adopted for the...
Page 530 - I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every one of us in returning to...
Page 374 - ... common defence, security of liberty and general welfare.' 2. Resd. therefore that the rights of suffrage in the national Legislature ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contribution, or to the number of Free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 249 - Fathers, we kindled a fire a long time ago, at a place called Montreal, where we desired you to stay, and not to come and intrude upon our land. I now desire you may dispatch to that place ; for be it known to you, fathers, that this is our land and not yours.