The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: Containing the Story of the Campaign; an Account of the "Great Uprising of the People of State," and Other Articles Upon Subjects Associated with the Early War Period ...

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Sentinel Printing Company, 1890 - 511 pagina's
 

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Pagina 220 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the executive government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways.
Pagina 37 - First: That all questions pertaining to slavery in the territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein, by their appropriate representatives, to be chosen by them for that purpose. Second : That " all cases involving title to slaves...
Pagina 27 - That the Constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy, or compact between the people of the several States in their sovereign capacities ; but a government proper, founded on the adoption of the people, and creating direct relations between itself and individuals.
Pagina 36 - ... in relation to details and specific provisions, the acquiescence of distinguished citizens, whose devotion to the Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our institutions and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
Pagina 27 - ... 2. That no State authority has power to dissolve these relations; that nothing can dissolve them but revolution; and that, consequently, there can be no such thing as secession without revolution.
Pagina 27 - States is the tinal interpreter." 4. "That an attempt by a State to abrogate, annul, or nullify, an act of Congress, or to arrest its operation within her limits, on the ground that, in her opinion, such...
Pagina 198 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Pagina 28 - States is the final interpreter, 4. That an attempt by a state to abrogate, annul, or nullify an act of congress, or to arrest its operation within her limits, on the ground that, in her opinion, such law is unconstitutional, is a direct usurpation on the just powers of the general government, and on the equal rights of other states, a plain violation of the constitution, and a proceeding essentially revolutionary in its character and tendency.
Pagina 72 - Hampshire for a regiment of militia, consisting of ten companies of infantry, to be held in readiness to be mustered into the service of the United States for the purpose of quelling insurrection and supporting the government...
Pagina 309 - ... Peterborough he received a good academic education, and taught school several terms. In 1838 he removed to Nashua, and pursued a course of study for three years with industry and zeal, calculated to fit him for the active duties of life. In 1842 he commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. George Y. Sawyer, an eminent member of the Hillsborough County bar, and since one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar and at once entered...

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