A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - 404 pages |
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... never met with an instance in which a studied moderation of tone has more successfully shielded from hostile criticism not only extreme one - sidedness of view , but the most glaring contradictions in point of argument . I had to read ...
... never met with an instance in which a studied moderation of tone has more successfully shielded from hostile criticism not only extreme one - sidedness of view , but the most glaring contradictions in point of argument . I had to read ...
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... never meant to apply to territory . Mr. Spence , indeed , accepts the Dred Scott decision at one gulp , boldly defying any uninterested person to view it as being otherwise than in accordance with the Constitution . Quoting Benton ...
... never meant to apply to territory . Mr. Spence , indeed , accepts the Dred Scott decision at one gulp , boldly defying any uninterested person to view it as being otherwise than in accordance with the Constitution . Quoting Benton ...
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... never ratified . From the minutes of cession of Florida , it appears that the ratifications were duly exchanged at Washington " on the 22nd February , 1821 . 66 P. 181. Van Buren's Sub - Treasury Act , it should be observed , was ...
... never ratified . From the minutes of cession of Florida , it appears that the ratifications were duly exchanged at Washington " on the 22nd February , 1821 . 66 P. 181. Van Buren's Sub - Treasury Act , it should be observed , was ...
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... never overlook how vast a portion of the area over which it extends was originally settled , or at least more or less ruled and overrun , by other European races . The dominion of the Spanish race has extended from ocean to ocean ...
... never overlook how vast a portion of the area over which it extends was originally settled , or at least more or less ruled and overrun , by other European races . The dominion of the Spanish race has extended from ocean to ocean ...
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... abound . The Americans are never tired of telling and retelling the story of both their colonial and revolutionary periods . But there is absolutely no standard work B 2 THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS for the later period , and.
... abound . The Americans are never tired of telling and retelling the story of both their colonial and revolutionary periods . But there is absolutely no standard work B 2 THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS for the later period , and.
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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...