Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, 2. köideHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 707 pages |
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... military success , united with certain traits of character , is a good ground for assuming fitness of an individual for the highest civil station . Along with this somewhat hazardous assumption there runs at such times the vague and ...
... military success , united with certain traits of character , is a good ground for assuming fitness of an individual for the highest civil station . Along with this somewhat hazardous assumption there runs at such times the vague and ...
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... military life , he had rarely even voted at elections , was known to be a Whig , but , as he described himself , not an " Ultra Whig . " He was at no pains to seek a nomination for the Presidency , but it was pretty well known that if ...
... military life , he had rarely even voted at elections , was known to be a Whig , but , as he described himself , not an " Ultra Whig . " He was at no pains to seek a nomination for the Presidency , but it was pretty well known that if ...
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... military title , was not in the category of military heroes , claimed that his party services and public posi- tion entitled him to the nomination . Mr. Buchanan was by far the fittest candidate whom the Democrats could have adopted ...
... military title , was not in the category of military heroes , claimed that his party services and public posi- tion entitled him to the nomination . Mr. Buchanan was by far the fittest candidate whom the Democrats could have adopted ...
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... military power ; for the peace must be kept between the inhabitants of Texas and the inhabitants of New Mexico , and between the United States and Texas , in reference to her boundaries . In the opposite sections of the Union popular ...
... military power ; for the peace must be kept between the inhabitants of Texas and the inhabitants of New Mexico , and between the United States and Texas , in reference to her boundaries . In the opposite sections of the Union popular ...
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... important event in the history of Philadelphia is this meeting in- tended to celebrate ? Not a victory achieved by our arms over a foreign foe . Not the advent amongst us of a great military captain 28 LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN .
... important event in the history of Philadelphia is this meeting in- tended to celebrate ? Not a victory achieved by our arms over a foreign foe . Not the advent amongst us of a great military captain 28 LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN .
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Page 191 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 345 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 324 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any State, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 259 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Page 286 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 386 - 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 286 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 133 - Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 255 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.