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... Defender and Preserver of the NaATION'S UNITY AND POWER 223 ABRAHAM LINCOLN VII FIFTY YEARS OF GROWTH AND CHANGE . . 271 APPENDIX USEFUL REFERENCES 313 THE STATES OF THE UNION . 319 PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES · • 320 THE ...
... Defender and Preserver of the NaATION'S UNITY AND POWER 223 ABRAHAM LINCOLN VII FIFTY YEARS OF GROWTH AND CHANGE . . 271 APPENDIX USEFUL REFERENCES 313 THE STATES OF THE UNION . 319 PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES · • 320 THE ...
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... defenders of those in- stitutions and ideals for which progressive English- men had fought for centuries , but they were Ameri- cans , not Englishmen . They represented the fruit of that tree which had grown from English seed planted in ...
... defenders of those in- stitutions and ideals for which progressive English- men had fought for centuries , but they were Ameri- cans , not Englishmen . They represented the fruit of that tree which had grown from English seed planted in ...
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... defenders of the slave system , al- though Jefferson himself and many other leaders of opinion in those states were opposed to it . An interesting legal question arose from the fact that in 1772 , while the colonies were still under ...
... defenders of the slave system , al- though Jefferson himself and many other leaders of opinion in those states were opposed to it . An interesting legal question arose from the fact that in 1772 , while the colonies were still under ...
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... defenders of slavery . The lines were swiftly drawn , and while slavery did not become the dominant issue for some time , it was now to be always in the background , and not far in the background , after the debate in the First Congress ...
... defenders of slavery . The lines were swiftly drawn , and while slavery did not become the dominant issue for some time , it was now to be always in the background , and not far in the background , after the debate in the First Congress ...
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... defenders of slavery saw plainly that if they were to secure the perpetuity of their institu- tion they must gain control of some other part of the national government than the House of Rep- resentatives . They could only look to the ...
... defenders of slavery saw plainly that if they were to secure the perpetuity of their institu- tion they must gain control of some other part of the national government than the House of Rep- resentatives . They could only look to the ...
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Page 323 - Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens...
Page 261 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 261 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 344 - After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 344 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be Inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 325 - PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ARTICLE I SECTION i ( All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
Page 327 - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Page 346 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 347 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 350 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ***** But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.