Speeches of Hon. William D. Kelley: Replies of the Hon. William D. Kelley to George Northrop, Esq., in the Joint Debate in the Fourth Congressional District |
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... proclamation to the people of the State , reminding them of their duty to the Consti- tution , holding up before them the greatness of their country and its resources - showing how Heaven had enriched it ; pointing them to the ...
... proclamation to the people of the State , reminding them of their duty to the Consti- tution , holding up before them the greatness of their country and its resources - showing how Heaven had enriched it ; pointing them to the ...
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... proclamation , stand true to your country , its Constitution and its flag , and we will sustain you , no State would have seceded - no foreign Confederacy would have been reared upon our soil -- no war would have deluged it with blood ...
... proclamation , stand true to your country , its Constitution and its flag , and we will sustain you , no State would have seceded - no foreign Confederacy would have been reared upon our soil -- no war would have deluged it with blood ...
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... proclamation written by Benedict Arnold , after he had deserted the flag of our country and gone over to Great Britain . You will find that he makes each one of these points , just as though he had handed them to Horatio when the latter ...
... proclamation written by Benedict Arnold , after he had deserted the flag of our country and gone over to Great Britain . You will find that he makes each one of these points , just as though he had handed them to Horatio when the latter ...
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... proclamation of Benedict Arnold , published in October , 1780 . Now let me turn to the grave of Andrew Jackson . I was a Jackson boy , and I remember how , in my earliest childhood , I wept , when running back into my mother's entry ...
... proclamation of Benedict Arnold , published in October , 1780 . Now let me turn to the grave of Andrew Jackson . I was a Jackson boy , and I remember how , in my earliest childhood , I wept , when running back into my mother's entry ...
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... proclamation . Naturalized Frenchmen availed themselves of the same artifice , and , for a few days , Tous sand had his hands full of pleasant and profitable occupation . Jackson met this new difficulty by ordering the consul and all ...
... proclamation . Naturalized Frenchmen availed themselves of the same artifice , and , for a few days , Tous sand had his hands full of pleasant and profitable occupation . Jackson met this new difficulty by ordering the consul and all ...
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Page 84 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 84 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
Page 83 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 12 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 47 - I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to bind you ; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can ; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you.
Page 12 - 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 84 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 82 - When the regular course of justice is interrupted by revolt, rebellion, or insurrection, so that the courts of justice cannot be kept open, civil war exists, and hostilities may be prosecuted on the same footing as if those opposing the government were foreign enemies invading the land.
Page 83 - ... order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...