The American domination, pt. 2, 1861-1903Goupil, 1904 - Louisiana |
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Alcée Fortier Allen appointed April arms army artillery Assembly Banks Baton Rouge batteries bill brigadier-general Cabildo Captain Charles citizens civil Colonel colored command committee Confederate Congress Constitution convention December declared Democratic District election eral ernor Farragut Federal flag fleet Governor of Louisiana Governor Warmoth held Henry Watkins Allen honor House hundred January jetties John John McEnery Judge July justice Kellogg Legislature levee LIBRARIES STANFORD UNIVERSITY Lieutenant Lieutenant-Governor lottery Loui Louisianians March Mayor McDonogh McEnery ment Michael Hahn military Mississippi negroes Nicholls Orleans Packard parish passed persons Pierre Soulé Pinchback police Port Hudson President Grant proclamation protection Reconstruction Regiment Republican Returning-Board river Secretary sent September siana soldiers Speaker STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Street Supreme Court surrender Taylor thousand dollars tion troops Tulane Tulane University United States Senate UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD University of Louisiana Voorhies vote Warmoth White League William Wiltz
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Page 87 - 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 69 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 180 - Under such circumstances it is but reasonable to suppose that errors of judgment must have occurred. Even had they not, differences of opinion between the executive, bound by an oath to the strict performance of his duties, and writers and debaters, must have arisen. It is not necessarily evidence of blunder on the part of the executive because there are these differences of views. Mistakes have been made, as all can see and I admit...
Page 181 - History shows that no Administration from the time of Washington to the present has been free from these mistakes. But I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
Page 90 - And be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 86 - 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 feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not...
Page 190 - The results that have followed are indeed significant and encouraging. All apprehension of danger from remitting those States to local self-government is dispelled, and a most salutary change in the minds of the people has begun and is in progress in every part of that section of the country once the theater of unhappy civil strife, substituting for suspicion, distrust, and aversion, concord, friendship, and patriotic attachment to the Union.
Page 104 - I accept the civil and political equality of all men; and agree not to attempt to deprive any person or persons, on account of race, color, or previous condition, of any political or civil right, privilege, or immunity, enjoyed by any other class of men...
Page 33 - Having defended this position as long as I deem my duty requires, I am willing to surrender to you, and will appoint a commission of three officers, to me.et a similar commission appointed by yourself, at nine o'clock this morning, for the purpose of agreeing upon and drawing up the terms of surrender, and for that purpose I ask a cessation of hostilities.
Page 199 - ... new issue to bear interest at the rate of four per cent per annum, payable semi-annually.