The Political History of the United States of America, During the Period of Reconstruction (from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870,) Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses: With the Votes Thereon; Together with the Action, Congressional and State, on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Other Important Executive, Legislative, Politico-military, and Judicial Facts of that Period |
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... Direct Taxes - On Representation - On Immunities of Citizens - On Tennessee - On Rebel Debt . IX . Members of the Cabinet of President Johnson , and of the 39th Congress , and of Claimants of Seats therein ...... .... 107-109 X. Votes ...
... Direct Taxes - On Representation - On Immunities of Citizens - On Tennessee - On Rebel Debt . IX . Members of the Cabinet of President Johnson , and of the 39th Congress , and of Claimants of Seats therein ...... .... 107-109 X. Votes ...
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... direct Taxes shall be ap- portioned among the several States which may be included within this Union , according to their respective Numbers , which shall be deter- mined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons , including those ...
... direct Taxes shall be ap- portioned among the several States which may be included within this Union , according to their respective Numbers , which shall be deter- mined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons , including those ...
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... direct , Tax shall be laid , unless in Proportion to the Census or Enu- meration herein before directed to be taken . No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles ex- ported from any State . No Preference shall be given by any Regula- tion ...
... direct , Tax shall be laid , unless in Proportion to the Census or Enu- meration herein before directed to be taken . No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles ex- ported from any State . No Preference shall be given by any Regula- tion ...
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... direct : First . That the military commander of the Department , and all officers and persons in the military and naval service aid and assist the said Provisional Governor in carrying into effect this proclamation , and they are ...
... direct : First . That the military commander of the Department , and all officers and persons in the military and naval service aid and assist the said Provisional Governor in carrying into effect this proclamation , and they are ...
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... direct that General Fisk , assistant commissioner at Nashville , Tennessee , be in- structed by the Chief Commissioner of Bureau of Freedmen , & c . , to relinquish possession of the property of Mr. Leake , held by him as assistant ...
... direct that General Fisk , assistant commissioner at Nashville , Tennessee , be in- structed by the Chief Commissioner of Bureau of Freedmen , & c . , to relinquish possession of the property of Mr. Leake , held by him as assistant ...
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Page 254 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 68 - States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue. be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for...
Page 361 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity or warpower higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts he made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 236 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 257 - Constitution; and the other of which acts exercises, in like manner, a power not delegated by the Constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against...
Page 213 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Page 90 - 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 119 - April 9, 1865. GENERAL : I received your note of this morning on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you, and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday. With reference to the surrender of this army, I now request an interview, in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Page 146 - that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign Power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...