Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society: Centenary series, Volume 1The Society, 1916 - Local history |
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... ment to the constitution of the United States abolishing slavery . The action of the legislature of Mississippi is looked to with great interest at this time , and a failure to adopt the amendment will create the belief that the action ...
... ment to the constitution of the United States abolishing slavery . The action of the legislature of Mississippi is looked to with great interest at this time , and a failure to adopt the amendment will create the belief that the action ...
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... ment of the freedmen's status , was the call for legislation for facilitating and tiding over the people in the struggle for recovery from financial prostration and industrial chaos . In dealing with this emergency the legislature ...
... ment of the freedmen's status , was the call for legislation for facilitating and tiding over the people in the struggle for recovery from financial prostration and industrial chaos . In dealing with this emergency the legislature ...
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... ment . " Vengeance cannot be a proper right arm of any people or earthly power . ' Vengeance is mine and I will repay , saith the Lord . ' Vindication of national power is not now needed when the sword has so terribly accomplished that ...
... ment . " Vengeance cannot be a proper right arm of any people or earthly power . ' Vengeance is mine and I will repay , saith the Lord . ' Vindication of national power is not now needed when the sword has so terribly accomplished that ...
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... ment . The tendency is already toc strong in the direction of consolidation . The liberties of the people , and the preservation of the complex federative system , would be better insured by confining the federal and State governments ...
... ment . The tendency is already toc strong in the direction of consolidation . The liberties of the people , and the preservation of the complex federative system , would be better insured by confining the federal and State governments ...
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... ment ? No man was stronger in favor of that than the presi- dent . There was a great deal in that amendment . It author- ized congress , by appropriate legislation , to make the emanci- pated slaves in all respects citizens of the ...
... ment ? No man was stronger in favor of that than the presi- dent . There was a great deal in that amendment . It author- ized congress , by appropriate legislation , to make the emanci- pated slaves in all respects citizens of the ...
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Page 215 - 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.
Page 174 - 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 178 - 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...
Page 107 - That any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any inhabitant of any State or Territory to the deprivation of any right secured or protected by this Act...
Page 280 - And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 281 - ... when the people of any one of said rebel States shall have formed a constitution of government in conformity with the Constitution of the United States in all respects, framed by a convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition, who have been resident in said State for one year previous to the day of such election, except such as may be disfranchised for participation in the rebellion or for felony...
Page 354 - That the citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances, or other proper purposes, by petition, address, or remonstrance.
Page 277 - Indians not taxed; and upon the further fundamental condition that the legislature of said State, by a solemn public act, shall declare the assent of said State to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States an authentic copy of said act; upon receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, shall forthwith announce the fact; whereupon said fundamental condition shall be held as a part of the organic law of the State, and thereupon, and without any further...
Page 118 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due execution of this act.
Page 281 - That no person excluded from the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, shall be eligible to election as a member of the convention to frame a constitution for any of said rebel States, nor shall any such person vote for members of such convention.