Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1866 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Georgia , 1822 this was followed by " Memoirs of the during the last two years . Court of James I. , " a well - written work , but relating to a period inferior in interest to that of Elizabeth . In 1823 she published a memoir of her ...
... Georgia , 1822 this was followed by " Memoirs of the during the last two years . Court of James I. , " a well - written work , but relating to a period inferior in interest to that of Elizabeth . In 1823 she published a memoir of her ...
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... Georgia .... Kentucky .. Tennessee Mississippi . Louisiana ... Michigan Alabama 104 96 516 6,405 981 6,089 109,737 08 82 34 204 2,146 267 2,054 46,171 66 18 Illinois Florida Indiana Missouri Wisconsin Texas . Iowa California Minnesota ...
... Georgia .... Kentucky .. Tennessee Mississippi . Louisiana ... Michigan Alabama 104 96 516 6,405 981 6,089 109,737 08 82 34 204 2,146 267 2,054 46,171 66 18 Illinois Florida Indiana Missouri Wisconsin Texas . Iowa California Minnesota ...
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... Georgia had respectively fourteen thou sand and fifteen thousand exempts acting as State officers . More than thirty thousand were estimated to be exempted as State officers by the Conscription Bureau , and a hundred thousand from ...
... Georgia had respectively fourteen thou sand and fifteen thousand exempts acting as State officers . More than thirty thousand were estimated to be exempted as State officers by the Conscription Bureau , and a hundred thousand from ...
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... Georgia , July 30th , 1864 . John A. Spooner , Esq . , Agent for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Nashville , Tenn . SIR : Yours from Chattanooga , July 28 , is received , notifying me of your appointment by your State as Lieutenant ...
... Georgia , July 30th , 1864 . John A. Spooner , Esq . , Agent for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Nashville , Tenn . SIR : Yours from Chattanooga , July 28 , is received , notifying me of your appointment by your State as Lieutenant ...
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... Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi , except those at Savannah , Mobile , and under Forrest , who had an independent ( roving ) com- mission . Before the arrival of Gen. Sherman at Meridian , Gen. Polk had eighteen thousand troops ...
... Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi , except those at Savannah , Mobile , and under Forrest , who had an independent ( roving ) com- mission . Before the arrival of Gen. Sherman at Meridian , Gen. Polk had eighteen thousand troops ...
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Page 255 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution, which we now...
Page 227 - I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice, without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
Page 312 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 255 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all: Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Page 284 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 346 - 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...
Page 309 - And for the same reason it may be proper to further say that whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to any extent with the Executive.
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Page 359 - In 1842 he was appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Hon.
Page 229 - to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not in the Constitution otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law.