The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of OhioD. Appleton, 1874 - 669 pages |
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... Secretary of the Treasury - Resigns his Senatorship CHAPTER XXIV . xi PAGE ... War inevitable - Suspension of Cash Pay- ments by Banks and Government ... War Imprac ticable - Proposal of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens to issue Legal - tender Paper ...
... Secretary of the Treasury - Resigns his Senatorship CHAPTER XXIV . xi PAGE ... War inevitable - Suspension of Cash Pay- ments by Banks and Government ... War Imprac ticable - Proposal of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens to issue Legal - tender Paper ...
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... War - Summary . • • . 838 CHAPTER XXXVI . Advance in the Premium on Gold during 1862 - Extraordinary Fluctuations in ... Secretary Fessenden . • 406 CHAPTER XLI . 1861 . Mr. Chase and the War - Extracts from his Letters and Diaries 418 ...
... War - Summary . • • . 838 CHAPTER XXXVI . Advance in the Premium on Gold during 1862 - Extraordinary Fluctuations in ... Secretary Fessenden . • 406 CHAPTER XLI . 1861 . Mr. Chase and the War - Extracts from his Letters and Diaries 418 ...
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... Secretary of War ; William H. Crawford was Secretary of the Treasury ; and William Wirt was Attorney - General . Each of these eminent gentlemen - three of them being from the slave States - gave a written opinion , affirming its ...
... Secretary of War ; William H. Crawford was Secretary of the Treasury ; and William Wirt was Attorney - General . Each of these eminent gentlemen - three of them being from the slave States - gave a written opinion , affirming its ...
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... Secretary of War one hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars , to be expended in surveys and explorations of routes for the road . It was adopted in the Senate in February , 1853 , and was subse- quently concurred in by the House . Its ...
... Secretary of War one hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars , to be expended in surveys and explorations of routes for the road . It was adopted in the Senate in February , 1853 , and was subse- quently concurred in by the House . Its ...
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... Secretary of War , in the effort he made to procure Mr. Soulé's release . The struggle for the possession of Kansas began even be- fore the passage of the Nebraska act , and after that event grew to be , in time , a local civil war ...
... Secretary of War , in the effort he made to procure Mr. Soulé's release . The struggle for the possession of Kansas began even be- fore the passage of the Nebraska act , and after that event grew to be , in time , a local civil war ...
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Page 459 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...
Page 153 - Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 75 - An act concerning aliens," is contrary to the Constitution, one amendment to which has provided that "no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law...
Page 459 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 460 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 143 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 459 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free...
Page 59 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 320 - State, or any section or part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States ; 1 and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue...