 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since 1 have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counselor encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1966 - 436 pages
...Great Britain, do solemnly swear that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United Stateg since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily...exercise the functions of, any office whatever under any anthority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States ; that I have not yielded a voluntary... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Political Science - 1909 - 662 pages
...countenance, counsel or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the...hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded « voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1032 pages
...never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since you have been citizens thereof; that you have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel,...to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that you have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any office under... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1975 - 290 pages
...subscribe the following oath or affirmation : " 'I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since...have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily g'wcn no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in arnuid hostility thereto;... | |
 | Digital images - 1977 - 320 pages
...swear at his mustering in that he had "never voluntarily borne arms" against the United States; had "voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or...encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility" against the United States; had "neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions... | |
 | United States. Census Office - Law - 1991 - 764 pages
...shall tako and subscribe the following oath : I do solemnly swear that I have never voluntarily bourn arms against the United States since I have been a...that I have voluntarily given no aid countenance, council or encouragement to persons engaged iu armed hostility thereto that I have neither sought nor... | |
 | Richard Nelson Current - History - 1992 - 280 pages
...1864, Edwards received a copy of a "newly prescribed oath" requiring him to swear that he had "not sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the...pretended authority in hostility to the United States." The problem was that Edwards had served in the state legislature after the secession of Tennessee.... | |
 | Daniel W. Crofts - History - 1992 - 452 pages
...nor voluntarily assisted those who did so. It also stated that a signer had neither sought nor held "any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States." Section three of the Fourteenth Amendment barred from office all persons who had supported the rebellion... | |
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I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility... 
