History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, Volume 1S. J. Clarke Publishing, 1917 - Bridgeport (Conn.) |
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appointed April Assembly Bank Street Barnum Beardsley Benjamin Wheeler borough Bridge building Burr called capital stock Capt captain Charles charter Church City of Bridgeport committee Company Connecticut council Court courthouse Daniel Daniel Sterling David east elected erected established Fairfield Avenue Fairfield County fire firm George Golden Hill Hall harbor Hartford Haven Hawley held Henry highway Hubbell incorporated Indians inhabitants Isaac James John Joseph land located Locomobile Lodge machines Main Street manufacture Mill Nathaniel Nathaniel Wheeler Newfield Nichols Norwalk occupied October officers organized P. T. Barnum Park pastor Pequonnock petition present purchased Railroad regiment River road Roger Ludlow Samuel second lieutenant secretary Shelton Sherman Sherwood side Southport Stephen Hawley Sterling Stratfield Stratford Thomas town meeting Town of Bridgeport Town of Stratford treasurer voted Wall Street Water Street Wheeler William H William Peet Wordin York
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Page 383 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 383 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Page 383 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and existence of our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 46 - State, inhabitants within the limits aforesaid, be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be from time to time and forever hereafter, one body corporate and politic in fact and in name, by the name of "The Mayor and Common Council of the city of Newark...
Page 363 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Page 383 - Senators and Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble at their respective chambers at twelve o'clock noon on Thursday, the fourth day of July next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as in their wisdom the public safety and interest may seem to demand. " In -witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth...
Page 379 - than "free persons " and those " bound to service for a term of years" must, of course, have meant those permanently bound to service. Secondly, it was recognized by the ninth section of the same article, which provided that " the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Page 382 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 46 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 46 - And that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure...