The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor ...The author, 1893 - 474 pages |
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... called into action in his intellectual contests with his opponents , he felt perfectly at home and could use every weapon at his command like a veteran in long service . After spending a year in the drug store of Patrick Leyne , at the ...
... called into action in his intellectual contests with his opponents , he felt perfectly at home and could use every weapon at his command like a veteran in long service . After spending a year in the drug store of Patrick Leyne , at the ...
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... called upon to make up a large deficit of his principal , and when this was done he had only his farm left . Hoping to regain his for- tune on it in raising horses , he had made a good beginning at it when his horses were all carried ...
... called upon to make up a large deficit of his principal , and when this was done he had only his farm left . Hoping to regain his for- tune on it in raising horses , he had made a good beginning at it when his horses were all carried ...
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... called ) should be demurred out of court , and some important cases have to go over or be dis- posed of to the disadvantage of clients . But they all stood fire , " and it was a happy time for the junior when the last day of court ...
... called ) should be demurred out of court , and some important cases have to go over or be dis- posed of to the disadvantage of clients . But they all stood fire , " and it was a happy time for the junior when the last day of court ...
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... called together an abler body of men in an official capacity than this convention embraced , and Mr. Kirkwood took a fair rank in it . On taking his seat he was made chairman of the committee on Privilege and Elections , and had a place ...
... called together an abler body of men in an official capacity than this convention embraced , and Mr. Kirkwood took a fair rank in it . On taking his seat he was made chairman of the committee on Privilege and Elections , and had a place ...
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... called the covenanters , who hold peculiar opinions in relation to civil government . They hold that all government that does not conform to the Bible is wrong . They are therefore conscientiously opposed to paying taxes for the support ...
... called the covenanters , who hold peculiar opinions in relation to civil government . They hold that all government that does not conform to the Bible is wrong . They are therefore conscientiously opposed to paying taxes for the support ...
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Page 97 - Justice of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made, before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Page 360 - In such a case, it is peculiarly necessary to recur to safe and fundamental principles to sustain those principles, and, when sustained, to make them the tests of the arguments to be examined.
Page 48 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use all...
Page 444 - He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 360 - Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly granted to the government of the Union, are to be contracted by construction, into the narrowest possible compass, and that the original powers of the States are retained, if any possible construction will...
Page 203 - The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.
Page 360 - Union are to be contracted by construction into the narrowest possible compass, and that the original powers of the States are retained, if any possible construction will retain them, may, by a course of...
Page 274 - 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 220 - Clark addressed the House as follows: " Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : — The hour has arrived at which it becomes my duty to call you to order.
Page 126 - Her territory of great extent and unsurpassed fertility, inviting and constantly receiving a desirable emigration, her population of near three quarters of a million of intelligent, industrious, energetic and liberty-loving people, her rapid past and prospective growth, her present financial condition, having a debt of only about one quarter of a million of dollars unite to make her bonds among the most desirable investments that our country affords.