Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing ...Harper, 1901 |
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... political parties in recent years have made almost identical declara- tions in their national platforms . At the beginning of the campaign of 1896 the Democratic National Convention , which nominated Mr. Bryan , ignored the sub- jeet ...
... political parties in recent years have made almost identical declara- tions in their national platforms . At the beginning of the campaign of 1896 the Democratic National Convention , which nominated Mr. Bryan , ignored the sub- jeet ...
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... political offence , notwithstanding said po- litical offence may be designated as a ' felony , crime , infamous crime or mis- demeanor involving moral turpitude ' by the laws of the land whence he came or by the court convicting . " Sec ...
... political offence , notwithstanding said po- litical offence may be designated as a ' felony , crime , infamous crime or mis- demeanor involving moral turpitude ' by the laws of the land whence he came or by the court convicting . " Sec ...
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... political privileges - they and they only - formed the new government and or ganized its powers , without regard to the disfranchised classes , as much so as if these classes had not been in existence . And , in addition to the non ...
... political privileges - they and they only - formed the new government and or ganized its powers , without regard to the disfranchised classes , as much so as if these classes had not been in existence . And , in addition to the non ...
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... political forces to be respect- ed . Indians , likewise , were excluded . The Constitution of the United States opens thus : " We , the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitu- tion for the United States of ...
... political forces to be respect- ed . Indians , likewise , were excluded . The Constitution of the United States opens thus : " We , the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitu- tion for the United States of ...
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... political removal and political ap- deavored to conduct him from the relative pointment has characterized the whole innocence of barbarism to the larger and Indian administration . Sometimes the more perilous life of a free and ...
... political removal and political ap- deavored to conduct him from the relative pointment has characterized the whole innocence of barbarism to the larger and Indian administration . Sometimes the more perilous life of a free and ...
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Página 431 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 431 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Página 431 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth...
Página 241 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself: since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 135 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Página 405 - 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.
Página 431 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease when, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Página 453 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 427 - The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...
Página 425 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern states, that, by the accession of a Republican administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.