Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volumen2Harper & brothers, 1906 - 522 páginas |
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Página 35
... bills , intended to be a pacification . This was called the OMNIBUS BILL ( q . v . ) . It made large con- cessions to the slave - holders , and yet it was not satisfactory to them . For months a violent discussion of the compromise act ...
... bills , intended to be a pacification . This was called the OMNIBUS BILL ( q . v . ) . It made large con- cessions to the slave - holders , and yet it was not satisfactory to them . For months a violent discussion of the compromise act ...
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... bill was passed . He died in Lancaster , Wis . , Sept. 23 , 1898 . Calumet , a kind of pipe for smoking used by the North American Indians . The bowl is generally of stone , and the stem is ornamented with feathers , etc. The calumet is ...
... bill was passed . He died in Lancaster , Wis . , Sept. 23 , 1898 . Calumet , a kind of pipe for smoking used by the North American Indians . The bowl is generally of stone , and the stem is ornamented with feathers , etc. The calumet is ...
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... bill of that year providing money for a cemetery near the city of Mexico , for the interment of the remains of soldiers who fell in the Mexican War . The remains of Federal soldiers and sail- ors who fell in the Civil War have been ...
... bill of that year providing money for a cemetery near the city of Mexico , for the interment of the remains of soldiers who fell in the Mexican War . The remains of Federal soldiers and sail- ors who fell in the Civil War have been ...
Página 107
... Bill and other compromise measures , and , on the nomination of Mr. Pierce for the Presidency , he separated from the Demo- cratic party . He opposed the KANSAS- NEBRASKA BILL ( q . v . ) , and in 1855 was elected governor of Ohio . He ...
... Bill and other compromise measures , and , on the nomination of Mr. Pierce for the Presidency , he separated from the Demo- cratic party . He opposed the KANSAS- NEBRASKA BILL ( q . v . ) , and in 1855 was elected governor of Ohio . He ...
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... bill for the rechartering of the United States Bank . The bank was re- chartered in 1816 ; and when in trouble in 1819 Cheves was appointed president of its directors , and by his great energy and keen judgment it was saved from dis ...
... bill for the rechartering of the United States Bank . The bank was re- chartered in 1816 ; and when in trouble in 1819 Cheves was appointed president of its directors , and by his great energy and keen judgment it was saved from dis ...
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Página 340 - States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Página 334 - Legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes...
Página 309 - State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property, imported into any State, to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant...
Página 313 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Página 339 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Página 334 - Georgia three. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Página 309 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 338 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Página 313 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Página 309 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...