A Political Manual for 1866: Including a Classified Summary of the Important Executive, Legislative, and Politico-military Facts of the Period from President Johnson's Accession ... to July 4, 1866 ...Philp & Solomons, 1866 - 128 pages |
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... Declaring the Rebellion Ended - Appointments to Office - Trials by Military Courts - Against the Fenian Invasion of Canada . III . Action of the Conventions and Legis- latures of the Lately Insurrectionary States 1-6 7-18 18-28 ...
... Declaring the Rebellion Ended - Appointments to Office - Trials by Military Courts - Against the Fenian Invasion of Canada . III . Action of the Conventions and Legis- latures of the Lately Insurrectionary States 1-6 7-18 18-28 ...
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... declare War , grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal , and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water ; To raise and support Armies , but no Appro priation of Money to that Use shall be for longer Term than two years ; To provide ...
... declare War , grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal , and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water ; To raise and support Armies , but no Appro priation of Money to that Use shall be for longer Term than two years ; To provide ...
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... declaring what Officer shall then act as Presi- both of the supreme and inferior Courts , shal dent , and such ... declare th Punishment of Treason , but no Attainder Treason shall work Corruption of Blood , or For feiture except during ...
... declaring what Officer shall then act as Presi- both of the supreme and inferior Courts , shal dent , and such ... declare th Punishment of Treason , but no Attainder Treason shall work Corruption of Blood , or For feiture except during ...
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... declared null and void . All persons who shall exercise , claim , pretend , or at- tempt to exercise any political , military , or civil , power , authority , jurisdiction , or right , by , through , or under Jefferson Davis , late of ...
... declared null and void . All persons who shall exercise , claim , pretend , or at- tempt to exercise any political , military , or civil , power , authority , jurisdiction , or right , by , through , or under Jefferson Davis , late of ...
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... declare certain States therein mentioned in insurrection against the Government of the United States ; And whereas armed ... declared , in conformity with previous special legislation of Congress , to be closed against foreign commerce ...
... declare certain States therein mentioned in insurrection against the Government of the United States ; And whereas armed ... declared , in conformity with previous special legislation of Congress , to be closed against foreign commerce ...
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Page 10 - 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 4 - The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation...
Page 3 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 1 - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 4 - He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may on extraordinary occasions convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of...
Page 6 - 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 62 - 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...
Page 88 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 104 - 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 be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 106 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...