Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton: Or, Men and Events, at Home and Abroad, During Three Quarters of a Century |
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... Slavery question " Suggestions for the consideration of those who are much wiser than he who makes them " --Currency -- Foreign Policy - The call of the President for volunteers - Arming the Negroes -- Letter to President Lincoln on the ...
... Slavery question " Suggestions for the consideration of those who are much wiser than he who makes them " --Currency -- Foreign Policy - The call of the President for volunteers - Arming the Negroes -- Letter to President Lincoln on the ...
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... slavery - Levying export duties - Payment of the interest on the State debt in coin - The Chicago platform and the nomina . tions Mr. Fessenden Secretary of the Treasury - Public lands and the public debt - False charges by the ...
... slavery - Levying export duties - Payment of the interest on the State debt in coin - The Chicago platform and the nomina . tions Mr. Fessenden Secretary of the Treasury - Public lands and the public debt - False charges by the ...
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... slaves to put the wood on board ; and there came a well - dressed colored man on the steamer to go as a passenger to New Orleans . He told me he was from St. Domingo , where he was educated ; that he was employed on that plantation to ...
... slaves to put the wood on board ; and there came a well - dressed colored man on the steamer to go as a passenger to New Orleans . He told me he was from St. Domingo , where he was educated ; that he was employed on that plantation to ...
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... slaves . The head men of the barbarous as well as of the more civilized com- munities , always have the opportunity to take the " lion's share . " In the morning we drove on with the stage and our companions , without any incident ...
... slaves . The head men of the barbarous as well as of the more civilized com- munities , always have the opportunity to take the " lion's share . " In the morning we drove on with the stage and our companions , without any incident ...
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... slavery . In these coun- tries , unfortunately , the proudest aristocracy , between whom there is a common interest ... slaves . In the Netherlands and in England there is a basis of theoretical representation and a partial ...
... slavery . In these coun- tries , unfortunately , the proudest aristocracy , between whom there is a common interest ... slaves . In the Netherlands and in England there is a basis of theoretical representation and a partial ...
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Page 464 - AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 606 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 608 - Whereas neither that point of the highlands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and designated in the former treaty of peace between the two Powers as the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, nor the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River, has yet been ascertained...
Page 464 - ... of the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and all and singular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled on all questions which by the said Confederation are submitted to them.
Page 156 - SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of this act, and whenever required by the Secretary of the Treasury, the said corporation shall give the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds from place to place, within the United States, or the territories thereof, and for distributing the same in payment of the public creditors...
Page 613 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass...
Page 606 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 111 - I will here express but one sentiment, which is, that DISMEMBERMENT of our EMPIRE will be a clear sacrifice of great positive advantages, without any counterbalancing good; administering no relief to our real disease, which is DEMOCRACY ; the poison of which, by a subdivision, will only be the more concentrated in each part, and consequently the more virulent.
Page 451 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.
Page 557 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.