The Nation, Volume 16J.H. Richards, 1873 |
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... United States describing the recent occurrences at New Orleans . It is on the whole a clear and temperate document , and its statement of facts leaves , in our opinion , nothing to be de- sired . The facts are these — and we commend ...
... United States describing the recent occurrences at New Orleans . It is on the whole a clear and temperate document , and its statement of facts leaves , in our opinion , nothing to be de- sired . The facts are these — and we commend ...
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... United States troops , took and held the State House as directed . comment on this is unnecessary ; but it must be borne in mind that all this was done under that little clause of the Enforce- ment Act which gives persons the right to ...
... United States troops , took and held the State House as directed . comment on this is unnecessary ; but it must be borne in mind that all this was done under that little clause of the Enforce- ment Act which gives persons the right to ...
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... United States can elect the President - an assertion that will be better appreciated when wo remind our readers that a minority of the population is now repre- sented in the Senate by fifty - eight members , and a majority by only ...
... United States can elect the President - an assertion that will be better appreciated when wo remind our readers that a minority of the population is now repre- sented in the Senate by fifty - eight members , and a majority by only ...
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... United States cruiser was ordered to go there to look after American interests when the news of the king's death arrived , and it so happened that about the same time General Schofield's health needed recruiting , so he asked and ...
... United States cruiser was ordered to go there to look after American interests when the news of the king's death arrived , and it so happened that about the same time General Schofield's health needed recruiting , so he asked and ...
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... United States Senate , and do various other things . And the rumor is , that in exchange for this prospective Governor's assistance in securing the Senatorship for Mr. Boutwell , Mr. Boutwell has agreed to assist our friend in reach ...
... United States Senate , and do various other things . And the rumor is , that in exchange for this prospective Governor's assistance in securing the Senatorship for Mr. Boutwell , Mr. Boutwell has agreed to assist our friend in reach ...
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Página 278 - States in the legislative bodies which claimed to be in their normal relations with the federal government, were laws which imposed upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailed their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...
Página 278 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a state, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the state to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Página 76 - Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heartbeats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
Página 37 - British flag, in the enhanced payments of insurance, in the prolongation of the war, and in the addition of a large sum to the cost of the war and the suppression of the rebellion...
Página 124 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Página 252 - But my delight in going over Homer and Virgil with the boys makes me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him line by line, and word by word, in the way that nothing but a translation lesson ever will enable one to do; and so to get all his pictures and thoughts leisurely into one's mind, till I verily think one would after a time almost give out light in the dark, after having been steeped as it were in such an atmosphere...
Página 76 - But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
Página 278 - If, then, there is a difference between the privileges and immunities belonging to a citizen of the United States as such, and those belonging to the citizen of the State as such, the latter must rest for their security and protection where they have heretofore rested, for they are not embraced by this paragraph of the amendment. The first occurrence of the words privileges and immunities...
Página 150 - I have:' looking very hard at me the while, for he had told me with some pride coming down that it was his composition. 'Oh !' said the clergyman. 'Then you will agree with me, Mr. C, that it is not only an insult to me, who am the servant of the Almighty, but an insult to the Almighty, whose servant I am.
Página 273 - Key to North American Birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the Continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Second Edition, revised to date and entirely rewritten : with which are incorporated General Ornithology...