An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 pages |
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... Senate by an overwhelming vote , at its last session , and which in the meantime , has been indorsed by the people in a most em- phatic manner in the Presidential election , shall be also adopted by the House of Representatives , where ...
... Senate by an overwhelming vote , at its last session , and which in the meantime , has been indorsed by the people in a most em- phatic manner in the Presidential election , shall be also adopted by the House of Representatives , where ...
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... Senate and House of epresentatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled , ( two thirds of both Houses concurring , ) That the fol- lowing Article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amend- ment ...
... Senate and House of epresentatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled , ( two thirds of both Houses concurring , ) That the fol- lowing Article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amend- ment ...
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... Senate . " The Constitution can only be changed by amendment , and , according to the gentleman's theory , we can add nothing to it , however good or desirable , unless there was already " some clause or provision in the Constitution ...
... Senate . " The Constitution can only be changed by amendment , and , according to the gentleman's theory , we can add nothing to it , however good or desirable , unless there was already " some clause or provision in the Constitution ...
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... Senate of the United States as much power as New York and the other great States of the Union , and tenacious of the power thus secured to them , insisted , and it was finally yielded to them , that upon that point the Constitution of ...
... Senate of the United States as much power as New York and the other great States of the Union , and tenacious of the power thus secured to them , insisted , and it was finally yielded to them , that upon that point the Constitution of ...
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... Senate of the United States , have passed a resolution in favor of emancipa tion , " with the consent of the owners , and with compensation . " But where is compensation to come from I have a right to feel something on this subject ...
... Senate of the United States , have passed a resolution in favor of emancipa tion , " with the consent of the owners , and with compensation . " But where is compensation to come from I have a right to feel something on this subject ...
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Page 6 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Page 10 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 6 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 11 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 20 - ... meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 22 - States to leave any state, district, or place where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties; each of such persons shall be punished...
Page 1 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 1 - Section 1. Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.