The Rebellion: Its Consequences, and the Congressional Committee, Denominated the Reconstruction Committee, with Their ActionCommercial Print, 1866 - 248 páginas |
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The Rebellion: Its Consequences, and the Congressional Committee ... Jacob Barker Visualização integral - 1866 |
The Rebellion: Its Consequences, and the Congressional Committee ... Jacob Barker Visualização integral - 1866 |
The Rebellion: Its Consequences, and the Congressional Committee ... Jacob Barker Visualização integral - 1866 |
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Página 58 - In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people, is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other ; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.
Página 223 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Página 58 - ... by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.
Página 88 - I'll not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 6 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
Página 206 - 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...
Página 70 - And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
Página 58 - The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the Government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.
Página 89 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Página 69 - And in the event of a failure of every constitutional resort, and an accumulation of usurpations and abuses, rendering passive • obedience and non-resistance a greater evil than resistance and revolution, there can remain but one resort, the last of all; an appeal from the cancelled obligations of the constitutional compact to original rights anl the law of self-preservation.