The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year1864 |
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... secession from the United States . Early in December , 1860 , State Commissioners were sent to the authorities and people of the other slaveholding States , to urge forward a movement in favor of secession , and a union of these States ...
... secession from the United States . Early in December , 1860 , State Commissioners were sent to the authorities and people of the other slaveholding States , to urge forward a movement in favor of secession , and a union of these States ...
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... secession was reported , and on the 11th , it was adopted in secret session by a vote of ayes , 61 ; noes , 39 . It was as follows : AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other States united under the com ...
... secession was reported , and on the 11th , it was adopted in secret session by a vote of ayes , 61 ; noes , 39 . It was as follows : AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other States united under the com ...
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... secession which passed the State Convention , unless the time for it to take effect was postponed to the 4th of March . Some of them withheld their signatures entirely . The sessions of the Convention were conducted wholly in secret ...
... secession which passed the State Convention , unless the time for it to take effect was postponed to the 4th of March . Some of them withheld their signatures entirely . The sessions of the Convention were conducted wholly in secret ...
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... secession . Reconstruction would throw into political oblivion all the active leaders of secession . Reconstruction would bring over them again the power and sway of the North ; absolute secession opened the only door of escape ...
... secession . Reconstruction would throw into political oblivion all the active leaders of secession . Reconstruction would bring over them again the power and sway of the North ; absolute secession opened the only door of escape ...
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... secession took place in the State until the 20th of December , when David Hubbard , a Commissioner from the State of Alabama , addressed the Legislature of Arkan- sas at Little Rock . He argued that Alabama would secede from the Union ...
... secession took place in the State until the 20th of December , when David Hubbard , a Commissioner from the State of Alabama , addressed the Legislature of Arkan- sas at Little Rock . He argued that Alabama would secede from the Union ...
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Page 70 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 216 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 239 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page 186 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 129 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 176 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 414 - I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Page 216 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 176 - Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.
Page 239 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the southern States, now in revolt against the constitutional Government, and in arms around the capital ; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on...