The Works of Charles Sumner, Volumen11Lee and Shepard, 1877 |
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... VOTE of the PEOPLE . Remarks in the Senate , on an Amendment of the National Constitution , February 11 , 1867 .. RECONSTRUCTION AT LAST WITH COLORED SUFFRAGE AND PRO- TECTION AGAINST REBEL INFLUENCE . Speeches in the Senate , on the ...
... VOTE of the PEOPLE . Remarks in the Senate , on an Amendment of the National Constitution , February 11 , 1867 .. RECONSTRUCTION AT LAST WITH COLORED SUFFRAGE AND PRO- TECTION AGAINST REBEL INFLUENCE . Speeches in the Senate , on the ...
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... vote or be silent at the word of command ; but Andrew Johnson is not Gustavus Adolphus , and the American Congress is not the Diet of Sweden . The question at issue is one of the vastest ever pre- sented for practical decision ...
... vote or be silent at the word of command ; but Andrew Johnson is not Gustavus Adolphus , and the American Congress is not the Diet of Sweden . The question at issue is one of the vastest ever pre- sented for practical decision ...
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... vote , and also to affix conditions for adoption by the con- ventions . Look , if you please , at the character of this assumption . The President , from the Executive Man- sion at Washington , reaches his long executive arm into ...
... vote , and also to affix conditions for adoption by the con- ventions . Look , if you please , at the character of this assumption . The President , from the Executive Man- sion at Washington , reaches his long executive arm into ...
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... vote : Congress cannot . His jurisdiction is not only complete , but exclusive . If all this be so , then has our President a most extraordinary power , never before dreamed of . He may exclaim , with Louis the Fourteenth , " The State ...
... vote : Congress cannot . His jurisdiction is not only complete , but exclusive . If all this be so , then has our President a most extraordinary power , never before dreamed of . He may exclaim , with Louis the Fourteenth , " The State ...
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... vote . Each is the na- ked offspring of an illegitimate convention called into being by the President , in the exercise of illegitimate power . There is another provision of the Constitution , by which , according to a judgment of the ...
... vote . Each is the na- ked offspring of an illegitimate convention called into being by the President , in the exercise of illegitimate power . There is another provision of the Constitution , by which , according to a judgment of the ...
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Página 289 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 37 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Página 153 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 76 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 140 - If a majority of the votes given on that question shall be for a convention, then such convention shall be held as hereinafter provided; but if a majority of said votes shall be against a...
Página 67 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 9 - Unquestionably? a military government, established as the permanent government of the State, would not be a republican government, and it would be the duty of congress to overthrow it.
Página 81 - Books, maps, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use, or by the order, of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States.
Página 73 - Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action, if you will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance — soldiers and citizens — to participate in these offices, God being willing, I will kick them out. I will kick them out just as fast as I can. Let me say to you, in concluding, that what I have said I intended to say.
Página 402 - That all the provisions of this act and of the acts to which this is supplementary shall be construed liberally, to the end that all the intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out.