History of the Republican Party: Embracing Its Origin, Growth and Mission, Together with Appendices of Statistics and Information Required by Enlightened Politicians and Patriotic CitizensUnion Publishing Company, 1884 - 623 pages |
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... chapter on the Tariff ; Letters of Acceptance of the Presidential candidates ; Membership of National Commit- tees since 1856 ; Official calls for Conventions ; popular Biogra- phies of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan ,
... chapter on the Tariff ; Letters of Acceptance of the Presidential candidates ; Membership of National Commit- tees since 1856 ; Official calls for Conventions ; popular Biogra- phies of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan ,
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... Letter - David P. Mapes Makes a Statement - Corroboratory Letter from Judge E. L. Runals ... 145 CHAPTER XV . THE REPUBLICAN GENESIS . Greeley's Timidity - A Deaf Ear to Bovay's Early Pleadings - The Moun- tain Must Come to Mahommet ...
... Letter - David P. Mapes Makes a Statement - Corroboratory Letter from Judge E. L. Runals ... 145 CHAPTER XV . THE REPUBLICAN GENESIS . Greeley's Timidity - A Deaf Ear to Bovay's Early Pleadings - The Moun- tain Must Come to Mahommet ...
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... Letter - Gist of the Platform- Snow's Resolution -- John P. Hale's Speech -- Whig Ticket Endorsed - A Mongrel ... Letters from S. P. Chase and John McLean - Fremont Chosen - The Vote - W . L. Dayton Nominated for Vice - President ...
... Letter - Gist of the Platform- Snow's Resolution -- John P. Hale's Speech -- Whig Ticket Endorsed - A Mongrel ... Letters from S. P. Chase and John McLean - Fremont Chosen - The Vote - W . L. Dayton Nominated for Vice - President ...
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... Letter - Its Effect -Garfield Elected - He Carried Nineteen States and 216 Electoral Votes -Auspicious Opening of Garfield's Reign - Shot by a Disappointed Office - seeker - A Long Period of Suffering - Death - The Whole World in ...
... Letter - Its Effect -Garfield Elected - He Carried Nineteen States and 216 Electoral Votes -Auspicious Opening of Garfield's Reign - Shot by a Disappointed Office - seeker - A Long Period of Suffering - Death - The Whole World in ...
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... Letter , Horace Greeley , John Charles Fremont , Wigwam in Which Lincoln was Nominated , Abraham Lincoln , Ulysses S. Grant , Rutherford B. Hayes , James Abram Garfield , Chester Alan Arthur , Fac Simile of Tissue - ballots , James ...
... Letter , Horace Greeley , John Charles Fremont , Wigwam in Which Lincoln was Nominated , Abraham Lincoln , Ulysses S. Grant , Rutherford B. Hayes , James Abram Garfield , Chester Alan Arthur , Fac Simile of Tissue - ballots , James ...
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Page 263 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 265 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union,— that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...
Page 269 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 108 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 265 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 268 - Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 177 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 268 - ... if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 535 - States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or extension therein; that we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States while the present Constitution shall be maintained.
Page 263 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up,