Official Proceedings of the Democratic National ConventionNational Document Publishers, 1868 |
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adjourn adopted Alabama amendment Andrew Johnson Applause Arkansas Asa Packer ballot BIGLER Blair California candidate Chair Chairman citizens CLYMER Committee on Resolutions Connecticut Constitution Delaware DELEGATES AT LARGE DISTRICT DELEGATES Doolittle Eight votes Eleven for Hancock Five for Hendricks Five votes Florida gentleman George H Georgia half for Hancock half for Hendricks half for Pendleton half votes Hampshire Horatio Seymour Illinois Indiana Iowa Jersey Joel Parker John Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri motion move Nebraska Nevada nomination North Carolina number of votes offered the following Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania President Resolved Reverdy Johnson Rhode Island Sanford E Secretary called Seven votes Six for Hancock Six votes South Tennessee Texas Thomas Thomas Ewing Three for Hendricks Three for Pendleton Three votes tion Union Vermont votes for Andrew votes for George votes for Hancock votes for Hendricks votes for Pendleton W. S. Hancock West Virginia Wisconsin York
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Stran 140 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Stran 59 - ... citizens at home and abroad ; the assertion of American nationality which shall command the respect of foreign powers and furnish an example and encouragement to people struggling for national integrity, constitutional liberty, and individual rights; and the maintenance of the rights of naturalized citizens against the absolute doctrine of immutable allegiance and the claims of foreign powers to punish them for alleged crimes committed beyond their jurisdiction.
Stran 59 - Constitution; while.the learned Chief Justice has been subjected to the most atrocious calumnies, merely because he would not prostitute his high office to the support of the false and partisan charges preferred against the President.
Stran 56 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Stran 58 - The Democratic party, in National Convention assembled, reposing its trust in the intelligence, patriotism, and discriminating justice of the people, standing upon the Constitution, as the foundation and limitation of the powers of the government, and the guarantee of the liberties of the citizen, and recognizing the questions of slavery and secession as having been settled, for all time to come, by the war...
Stran 6 - Thy people ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Stran 60 - When grants of the public lands may be allowed, necessary for the encouragement of important public improvements, the proceeds of the sale of such lands, and not the lands themselves, should be so applied.
Stran 59 - Reform of abuses in the administration, the expulsion of corrupt men from office, the abrogation of useless offices, the restoration of rightful authority to and the independence of the executive and judicial departments of the Government, the subordination of the military to the civil power, to the end that the usurpations of Congress and the despotism of the sword may cease.
Stran 58 - ... where the obligations of the government do not expressly state upon their face, or the law under which they were issued does not provide, that they shall be paid in coin, they ought, in right and in justice, be paid in the lawful money of the United States.
Stran 60 - That our soldiers and sailors, who carried the flag of our country to victory against a most gallant and determined foe, must ever be gratefully remembered, and all the guarantees given in their favor must be faithfully carried into execution. That the public lands should be distributed as widely as possible among the people, and should be disposed of either under the Pre-emption...