Sketch of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Sylvester Churchill, Inspector General U. S. Army, with Notes and Appendices

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Stran 151 - The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it.
Stran 151 - Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.
Stran 142 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Stran 93 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder and rebellion through every part of the world.
Stran 151 - The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Stran 74 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Stran 92 - That the late Act of Parliament, for establishing the Roman Catholic religion and the French laws in that extensive country now called...
Stran 151 - Congress could not, prior to the year 1808, prohibit the migration or importation of such persons as any of the states, then existing, should think proper to admit.
Stran 83 - Gregory, the year began on the first day of January; and, consequently, whenever and wherever the NEW STYLE of reckoning time was adopted, then and there the year commenced on this day. Previous to the use of the Gregorian Calendar, the years had different days of beginning at various times in the t-ame and different countries, and occasionally at the same time in the same country.
Stran 95 - SCOTT, major general, commander in chief of the army in Mexico, and, through him, to the officers and men of the regular and volunteer corps under him, for their uniform gallantry and good conduct...

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