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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... Senators to Congress in Washington . question relative to their admission to seats was discussed , but not decided by the Senate . The On September 22d , the rebel Legislature of the State assembled . Thirteen members were present in the ...
... Senators to Congress in Washington . question relative to their admission to seats was discussed , but not decided by the Senate . The On September 22d , the rebel Legislature of the State assembled . Thirteen members were present in the ...
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... Senator Wilson , Chairman of the very far from the truth , notwithstanding the Military Committee of the Senate , that between October , 1863 , and June , 1864 , 600,000 white troops had been raised ; or that of Mr. Whit- ARMY , UNITED ...
... Senator Wilson , Chairman of the very far from the truth , notwithstanding the Military Committee of the Senate , that between October , 1863 , and June , 1864 , 600,000 white troops had been raised ; or that of Mr. Whit- ARMY , UNITED ...
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... Senator from Wisconsin , and M. B. Anderson , LL . D. , were appointed a committee to convey the resolutions to the President of the United States . Hon . Ira Harris , U. S. Senator from New York , was elected President of the Union for ...
... Senator from Wisconsin , and M. B. Anderson , LL . D. , were appointed a committee to convey the resolutions to the President of the United States . Hon . Ira Harris , U. S. Senator from New York , was elected President of the Union for ...
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... Senate , just one - half the number of Representatives , are chosen for eight years , and one - half of their number retire every fourth year . To be eligible as a Senator , it is necessary to be a Belgian by birth or naturali- zation ...
... Senate , just one - half the number of Representatives , are chosen for eight years , and one - half of their number retire every fourth year . To be eligible as a Senator , it is necessary to be a Belgian by birth or naturali- zation ...
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... Senate by one vote . The Legislature of Virginia instructed her Senators to vote for it . Whereupon it was reconsidered in the Senate in the following form : A Bill to Increase the Military Forces of the Confeder ate States . The ...
... Senate by one vote . The Legislature of Virginia instructed her Senators to vote for it . Whereupon it was reconsidered in the Senate in the following form : A Bill to Increase the Military Forces of the Confeder ate States . The ...
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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...
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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.
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