Arthur George Olmsted: Son of a Pennsylvania Pioneer; Boy Orator of Ulysses; for the Freedom of the Slave; Defense of the Union; Development of the Northern Tier; Citizen, Jurist, Statesman

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John C. Winston Company, 1919 - 268 страница

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Страница 199 - An Act To Protect All Citizens In Their Civil and Legal Rights." Its preamble and first section are as follows: — Preamble: "Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law...
Страница 177 - Senate of the state, and by the former body he was chosen speaker, thus showing the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best, whether personally or officially.
Страница 123 - I could not look in the face of my gallant comrades of the army and navy, who have survived so many bloody battles, and tell them that their labors and the sacrifice of so many of our slain and wounded brethren had been in vain, that we had abandoned that Union for which we have so often periled our lives.
Страница 15 - They passed the frowning towers of Briel, The " Hook of Holland's " shelf of sand, And grated soon with lifting keel The sullen shores of Fatherland. No home for these ! — too well they knew The mitred king behind the throne; — The sails were set, the pennons flew, And westward ho! for worlds unknown.
Страница 24 - In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good, a general council, chosen by all, to transact businesses which concern all, I conceive, under favor, most suitable to rule, and most safe for relief of the whole.
Страница 18 - I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land, or else worse,"
Страница 94 - That the Republican party is opposed to any change in our naturalization laws, or any State legislation by which the rights of citizenship hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.
Страница 85 - ... a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Страница 89 - That it is the duty of the federal government to relieve Itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever the government possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible for its existence.
Страница 94 - Greeley predicted at the time when it was at the height of its power, it was destined " to run its career rapidly, and vanish as suddenly as it appeared. It may last through the next presidential canvass ; but hardly longer than that. ... It would seem as devoid of the elements of persistence as an anti-cholera or an antipotato-rot party would be.

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