A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - 404 pages |
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... hand , the Missouri com- promise is disposed of in half a paragraph , the period between the treaty with Mexico and Mr. Buchanan's election , to which I have devoted 51 pages , in 16 , & c . , & c . In short , everything that I have cut ...
... hand , the Missouri com- promise is disposed of in half a paragraph , the period between the treaty with Mexico and Mr. Buchanan's election , to which I have devoted 51 pages , in 16 , & c . , & c . In short , everything that I have cut ...
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... hand since the date of General Harrison's presidency , 1840 ) ; Benton's " Thirty Years ' View , or a History of the Working of the American Government , " 1820-1850 , supplemented by Mr. Palfrey's " Chapter of American History ...
... hand since the date of General Harrison's presidency , 1840 ) ; Benton's " Thirty Years ' View , or a History of the Working of the American Government , " 1820-1850 , supplemented by Mr. Palfrey's " Chapter of American History ...
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... , for I have borrowed nothing from it . Mr. Spence's much praised work on " the American Union , " I should observe , only came into my hands ' when my own task was finished . Had I met with it X PREFACE . 66 before , I might have quoted.
... , for I have borrowed nothing from it . Mr. Spence's much praised work on " the American Union , " I should observe , only came into my hands ' when my own task was finished . Had I met with it X PREFACE . 66 before , I might have quoted.
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... hand , through the large quotations from them contained in " Justice Story's admirable Commentaries . " I had even more trouble in realising the fact , that whilst setting forth the Con- stitution of the United States at full length ...
... hand , through the large quotations from them contained in " Justice Story's admirable Commentaries . " I had even more trouble in realising the fact , that whilst setting forth the Con- stitution of the United States at full length ...
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... hand- writing , besides one found in Jefferson's collection , showing the exact line contended for by Great Britain , and even con- ceding something more . According to the American version , as set forth amongst ourselves in the House ...
... hand- writing , besides one found in Jefferson's collection , showing the exact line contended for by Great Britain , and even con- ceding something more . According to the American version , as set forth amongst ourselves in the House ...
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Page 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Page 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
Page 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Page 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Page 27 - States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Page 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 22 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...