Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... CONGRESS CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES STATE CONSTITUTIONS PAGE 1 6 27 27 51 39 65 83 92 126 100 • 117 134 . 146 157 b CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRITORIES . WENDELL PHILLIPS THE PROCLAMATION AND THE BORDER STATES NOTABILITIES OF ...
... CONGRESS CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES STATE CONSTITUTIONS PAGE 1 6 27 27 51 39 65 83 92 126 100 • 117 134 . 146 157 b CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRITORIES . WENDELL PHILLIPS THE PROCLAMATION AND THE BORDER STATES NOTABILITIES OF ...
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... Congress and the Government Offices . At their feet stretches the grand Potomac , just too far off to be visible as a feature in the town ; and across the low , broken , marshy valley between them runs the long , broad , irregular ...
... Congress and the Government Offices . At their feet stretches the grand Potomac , just too far off to be visible as a feature in the town ; and across the low , broken , marshy valley between them runs the long , broad , irregular ...
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... Congress is over , the whole place is taken down , and packed up again till wanted . Everything has such an unfinished " here for the day only " air about it . Everybody is a bird of passage at Washington . The diplomatic corps is ...
... Congress is over , the whole place is taken down , and packed up again till wanted . Everything has such an unfinished " here for the day only " air about it . Everybody is a bird of passage at Washington . The diplomatic corps is ...
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... Congress live in hotels or furnished lodgings . The wives and families of the married members ( whose names are marked in the Congressional Directory , with a row of crosses corre- sponding to the number of womankind they bring with ...
... Congress live in hotels or furnished lodgings . The wives and families of the married members ( whose names are marked in the Congressional Directory , with a row of crosses corre- sponding to the number of womankind they bring with ...
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... Congress - men and senators , army contractors and Jews ; artists , newspaper writers , tourists , prizefighters , and gamblers , were mixed up with a nondescript crowd of men , who seem to have no business except to hang about , and to ...
... Congress - men and senators , army contractors and Jews ; artists , newspaper writers , tourists , prizefighters , and gamblers , were mixed up with a nondescript crowd of men , who seem to have no business except to hang about , and to ...
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Página 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Página 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Página 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Página 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Página 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.