The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1862 - 391 strani |
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... colonies by Great Britain must have been bad , to excite them to rebel , although , indeed , we see rebellion now , as a result of what we are told are excellent institutions . But believing , as we may fairly do , that it was defective ...
... colonies by Great Britain must have been bad , to excite them to rebel , although , indeed , we see rebellion now , as a result of what we are told are excellent institutions . But believing , as we may fairly do , that it was defective ...
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... colonies from the rule of this country . There was no real hardship - no actual oppression . It was not the true object of that revolt to escape a duty of three pence per pound on tea , nor yet to maintain an abstract principle acted ...
... colonies from the rule of this country . There was no real hardship - no actual oppression . It was not the true object of that revolt to escape a duty of three pence per pound on tea , nor yet to maintain an abstract principle acted ...
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... Colonies that the South had been the seat of wealth and happi- ness , of power and opulence ; that a rich popula- tion covered the land , dispensing a baronial hospi- tality , and diffusing the felicity which themselves enjoyed ; that ...
... Colonies that the South had been the seat of wealth and happi- ness , of power and opulence ; that a rich popula- tion covered the land , dispensing a baronial hospi- tality , and diffusing the felicity which themselves enjoyed ; that ...
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... colonies were ever combined into one incongruous whole . But the impression prevailed in those days that Slavery would gradually die out . Had the able statesmen of that time anticipated the existing con- dition of affairs , they would ...
... colonies were ever combined into one incongruous whole . But the impression prevailed in those days that Slavery would gradually die out . Had the able statesmen of that time anticipated the existing con- dition of affairs , they would ...
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... , the Southern States have much more ground to demand the position of an independent power than the thirteen colonies could allege ; in extent CAUSES OF DISRUPTION OF THE UNION . 117 Holland and Belgium -General reflections on this subject.
... , the Southern States have much more ground to demand the position of an independent power than the thirteen colonies could allege ; in extent CAUSES OF DISRUPTION OF THE UNION . 117 Holland and Belgium -General reflections on this subject.
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Stran 358 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within .any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Stran 353 - No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Stran 340 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting, or that hereafter may arise between two or more States concerning boundary jurisdiction, or any other cause whatever...
Stran 351 - To establish Post Offices and post Roads; 8 To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; 9 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court...
Stran 353 - ... 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. . 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign...
Stran 139 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Stran 339 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment. ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in...
Stran 330 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Stran 354 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Stran 358 - States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.