Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form ...Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans State historical association, 1906 |
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... elected sheriff of Quitman county and held this position continuously , for years . For four years he was tax - receiver of Quitman county , and for sixteen years , was clerk of the superior court of that county . Shortly before his ...
... elected sheriff of Quitman county and held this position continuously , for years . For four years he was tax - receiver of Quitman county , and for sixteen years , was clerk of the superior court of that county . Shortly before his ...
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... elected ordinary of the county . He is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church South . In November , 1897 , Judge Oliver was united in marriage to Miss Sadie ...
... elected ordinary of the county . He is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church South . In November , 1897 , Judge Oliver was united in marriage to Miss Sadie ...
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... elected vice - president of that body for the ensuing year , and at the succeeding session received the unsolicited honor of the presidency of the association . Evans , in his valuable History of Georgia , speaks of him as " an able man ...
... elected vice - president of that body for the ensuing year , and at the succeeding session received the unsolicited honor of the presidency of the association . Evans , in his valuable History of Georgia , speaks of him as " an able man ...
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... elected a member of Congress as a Unionist , and re- ëlected in 1836. He died at Savannah in 1856 . Owensbyville , a post - village of Heard county , with a population of 100 , is on the west side of the Chattahoochee river , ten miles ...
... elected a member of Congress as a Unionist , and re- ëlected in 1836. He died at Savannah in 1856 . Owensbyville , a post - village of Heard county , with a population of 100 , is on the west side of the Chattahoochee river , ten miles ...
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... elected secretary of the Georgia bar association , which position he still continues to hold . He has a number of times contributed to the program of the annual meetings of the association and has taken an active part in all its work ...
... elected secretary of the Georgia bar association , which position he still continues to hold . He has a number of times contributed to the program of the annual meetings of the association and has taken an active part in all its work ...
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Página 265 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 263 - This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Página 265 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 265 - Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 155 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Página 550 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 263 - Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this? a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose their movements.
Página 263 - And, whenever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in.
Página 263 - Nay: we hold with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of Communities to alter or abolish forms of Government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Página 330 - keep ullve among ourselves and our descendants the patriotic spirit of the men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel, achieved American Independence ; to collect and securo for preservation the manuscript rolls, records and other documents relating to the war of the Revolution, and to promote intercourse and good feeling among its members now and hereafter.