The History of Political Parties in the State of New-York: From the Ratification of the Federal Constitution to December, 1840 ...Phinney & Company, 1849 - New York (State) |
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... passed over the ground a second time . " After the review , the regiment was formed in ' hol- low square , ' and the general , in his calm , cool manner , made a handsome address to the regiment . As he commenced , all eyes were turned ...
... passed over the ground a second time . " After the review , the regiment was formed in ' hol- low square , ' and the general , in his calm , cool manner , made a handsome address to the regiment . As he commenced , all eyes were turned ...
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... passed through his hands . He was one of the most careful , thorough , and accurate of men . All the political works and peri- odicals of the day were read by him as soon as they came to hand . Besides , he read all the recent ...
... passed through his hands . He was one of the most careful , thorough , and accurate of men . All the political works and peri- odicals of the day were read by him as soon as they came to hand . Besides , he read all the recent ...
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... passed a law directing the county buildings to be located in a more central part of the county , and the commissioners had located them at Canton , the inhabitants of other sec- tions of the county boasted that Canton had no materials ...
... passed a law directing the county buildings to be located in a more central part of the county , and the commissioners had located them at Canton , the inhabitants of other sec- tions of the county boasted that Canton had no materials ...
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... passed a bill providing for a choice of electors by the people , if any set of candidates obtained a majori- ty of all the votes cast ; but in case no candidate had such majority , then no election was effected ; and no pro- vision was ...
... passed a bill providing for a choice of electors by the people , if any set of candidates obtained a majori- ty of all the votes cast ; but in case no candidate had such majority , then no election was effected ; and no pro- vision was ...
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... passed giving the election of presidential electors by general ticket to the people , by a plurality of votes , Mr. Clinton would in- stantly be brought forward as a candidate , and they ' thought , and we believe correctly thought ...
... passed giving the election of presidential electors by general ticket to the people , by a plurality of votes , Mr. Clinton would in- stantly be brought forward as a candidate , and they ' thought , and we believe correctly thought ...
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Page 608 - ... shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people...
Page 611 - No lease or grant of agricultural land, for a longer period than twelve years, hereafter made, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Page 654 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 605 - ... next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Page 580 - No member of the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State, or to the Senate of the United States from the Governor, the Governor and Senate, or- from the Legislature, or from any city government during the time for which he shall have been elected ; and all such appointments and all votes given for any such member, for any such office or appointment, shall be void.
Page 602 - ... ]N"o such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election.
Page 87 - That the Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States...
Page 398 - I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education as a man and a Christian which it was possible for me to provide.
Page 41 - J., in his dissenting opinion, reviews the course of decision in the state of New York, as well as in other states, and comes to the conclusion, which is, we think, unassailable, that the majority opinion was wrong. The decision in this case is to us a curious one, inasmuch as we find the same court, only one year previous, in the case of Hendricks v.
Page 541 - Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Senators in Congress from this State be instructed, and the Representatives...