The Life of Thaddeus Stevens: A Study in American Political History, Especially in the Period of the Civil War and ReconstructionBobbs-Merrill Company, 1913 - 620 psl. |
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The Life of Thaddeus Stevens– A Study in American Political History ... James Albert Woodburn Visos knygos peržiūra - 1913 |
The Life of Thaddeus Stevens– A Study in American Political History ... James Albert Woodburn Visos knygos peržiūra - 1913 |
The Life of Thaddeus Stevens– A Study in American Political History ... James Albert Woodburn Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1913 |
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602 psl. - ... but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
169 psl. - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
504 psl. - States, we do impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors in office ; and we do further inform the Senate that the House of Representatives will in due time exhibit particular articles of impeachment against him, and make good the same; and in their name we DO DEMAND that the Senate take order for the appearance of the said Andrew Johnson to answer to said impeachment.
408 psl. - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
169 psl. - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
171 psl. - ... 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; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
320 psl. - States, but am at the same time sincerely hoping and expecting that a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery throughout the nation may be adopted, nevertheless I am fully satisfied with the system for restoration contained in the bill as one very proper plan for the loyal people of any State choosing to adopt it...
299 psl. - Now you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
371 psl. - 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...
296 psl. - An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State Government, constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected, is simply absurd. There must be a test by which to separate the opposing elements, so as to build only from the sound ; and that test is a sufficiently liberal one which accepts as sound whoever will make a sworn recantation of his former unsoundness.