Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress, Део 3Government Pint. Office, 1866 - 822 страница Committee on the part of the Senate: William P. Fessenden, and others. Committee on the part of the House: Thaddeus Stevens, and others. |
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Страница vii
... course of proceedings they found it necessary to adopt , and to explain the reasons therefor . The resolution under which your committee was appointed directed them to inquire into the condition of the Confederate States , and report ...
... course of proceedings they found it necessary to adopt , and to explain the reasons therefor . The resolution under which your committee was appointed directed them to inquire into the condition of the Confederate States , and report ...
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... course they will pursue , when once more installed into power , may be arrived at . Your memorialists are not driven to consult tourists nor correspondence for information . They are all citizens of the State ; some of them are natives ...
... course they will pursue , when once more installed into power , may be arrived at . Your memorialists are not driven to consult tourists nor correspondence for information . They are all citizens of the State ; some of them are natives ...
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... course , has been sufficient to place the State in its present favor- able condition towards the government , and , if protected and encouraged by the presence of a small Union force , it will gain the complete ascendency in the State ...
... course , has been sufficient to place the State in its present favor- able condition towards the government , and , if protected and encouraged by the presence of a small Union force , it will gain the complete ascendency in the State ...
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... course they will go to the polls like everybody else , and they will vote ; and in that event , there being a majority in Tennessee of those who were rebels , they would get the control of the State . But I am one of those who do not ...
... course they will go to the polls like everybody else , and they will vote ; and in that event , there being a majority in Tennessee of those who were rebels , they would get the control of the State . But I am one of those who do not ...
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... course there as having been charitable and kind . At any rate , such are the reports that are brought to me ; that they have nothing to gainsay of what I have done . Of course , in the proper discharge of my official duties there , I ...
... course there as having been charitable and kind . At any rate , such are the reports that are brought to me ; that they have nothing to gainsay of what I have done . Of course , in the proper discharge of my official duties there , I ...
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Страница 92 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Страница 95 - Assembly, shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Страница 93 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience...
Страница iv - 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...
Страница 6 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Страница 93 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.
Страница 94 - The powers of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to- wit : Those which are legislative, to one ; those which are executive, to another ; and those which are judicial, to another.
Страница 92 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Страница iii - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Страница 93 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.