Life and Public Services of Thomas A. Hendricks: With Selected Speeches and WritingsCarlon and Hollenbeck, 1886 - 637 pages |
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... vote on education - Joint resolution - Chairman of Committee on Banks - Governor Whitcomb and his election to the Senate - Edward A. Hannegan - The new school law - Acts of the session . Pages 97-108 CHAPTER VII . THE CONSTITUTIONAL ...
... vote on education - Joint resolution - Chairman of Committee on Banks - Governor Whitcomb and his election to the Senate - Edward A. Hannegan - The new school law - Acts of the session . Pages 97-108 CHAPTER VII . THE CONSTITUTIONAL ...
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... vote - Senators Wade and Sherman- Senator Hendricks's opinion - Social life- Friendship with Charles Sumner - Leader ... votes cast for Hendricks - The Governor's Secre- tary - The special session - First message - The Baxter bill ...
... vote - Senators Wade and Sherman- Senator Hendricks's opinion - Social life- Friendship with Charles Sumner - Leader ... votes cast for Hendricks - The Governor's Secre- tary - The special session - First message - The Baxter bill ...
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... votes were counted it was found that he had received every one of the 18,340 that were cast . This was the " Era of Good Feeling , " signalized two years previously by the presidential election in which Monroe received all but one of ...
... votes were counted it was found that he had received every one of the 18,340 that were cast . This was the " Era of Good Feeling , " signalized two years previously by the presidential election in which Monroe received all but one of ...
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... vote of the State being quietly cast by order of the General Assembly for Andrew Jackson , with the general approval ... votes . The Jackson men had charge of the county buildings in the earlier days of the strife , and caused the court ...
... vote of the State being quietly cast by order of the General Assembly for Andrew Jackson , with the general approval ... votes . The Jackson men had charge of the county buildings in the earlier days of the strife , and caused the court ...
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... voted the same ticket , I will say what no citizen of Shelbyville can deny . Both as boy and man he was honest , an ex- cellent neighbor , and he never forgets to be a gentleman . You will find the same testimony from the chairman of ...
... voted the same ticket , I will say what no citizen of Shelbyville can deny . Both as boy and man he was honest , an ex- cellent neighbor , and he never forgets to be a gentleman . You will find the same testimony from the chairman of ...
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Page 557 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 551 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
Page 104 - And be it resolved, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress.
Page 624 - The constitution of our country, in its most interesting and vital parts, is to be considered; the conflicting powers of the government of the Union and of its members, as marked in that constitution, are to be discussed; and an opinion given, which may essentially influence the great operations of the government. No tribunal can approach such a question without a deep sense of its importance, and of the awful responsibility involved in its decision.
Page 205 - ... exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
Page 224 - ... if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 458 - To carry out the plan of colonization may involve the acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition.
Page 158 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Page 270 - SENATOR. who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 549 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to form a penal code, (bunded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice: And also to provide one or more farms, to be an asylum for those persons who, by reason of age, infirmity, or other misfortunes, may have a claim upon the aid and beneficence of society...