Records of States, authenticated, 219. permanent, 112. commerce, 31. Religion, free exercise of, 242. power of, vested in President, 176. vacancies in, 26. first House of, 65. House of, choose Speaker, 27. Vice-President, 171. Schools, land reserved for, 227. Seas, crime committed on, 216. Secretaries of Interior, list of, 201. State, 189. Treasury, 194. Secretary of Interior, 66, 200. salary, 201. Navy, duty of, 196. salary, 196. State, duties of, 187. Treasury, duties of, 193. War, duties of, 190. salary, 190. Sections of land, 227. Senate changed gradually, 71. Senator, vote of, 27. Senators, act under oath, when, 76. classification of, 27, 71. Slave-holding States, 234. trade a piracy, 130, 141. Slavery, no nation bound to recognise, Slaves, portion of, included, 62. runaway, reclaimed, 222. Soldiers shall not be quartered, where, 49. Sole power of taxation, 13. presiding officer, 69. Special sessions of Congress, 182 State, Department of, 186. enter into treaties, 147. majority of, not represented, 20. Chief Justice, when president of,76. Suffrage, equal, 235. elective, 93. elects its president, 74. not permanent and hereditary, 93. officers of, how chosen, 74. of United States, 70. how composed, 27. on oath or affirmation, 28. Supreme Court, 207. of United States, 208. Suits at common law, 50. Survey of public lands, 227. president of, not a member of, 74. TABLE showing distribution of repre- who, 27. restrictions upon, 147. tries impeachments, 28, 75. required residence of, 27, 72. MESSRS. CHILDS & PETERSON, PUBLISHERS, 124 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, WOULD RESPECTFULLY INVITE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS TO SHEPPARD'S CONSTITUTIONAL TEXT BOOK. Maine. From the Hon. Charles A. Lord, Superintendent of the Common Schools of Maine. PORTLAND, MAINE, Sept. 6, 1855. Your "Sheppard's Constitutional Text Book" was duly received, now some weeks since. An earlier acknowledgment of your kindness was intended; the delay, however, has wrought no abatement of interest in your Text Book, nor any indifference to the great want it is so well calculated to supply in our educational course. A practical, familiar exposition of the United States Constitution, and of those of the individual States, must be engrafted on our elementary course, if we would, with the great Washington, have our children indoctrinated in the principles and powers of State and Federal relations. If our citizens are to exhibit "a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to the Union," the children must have a more national training. Neither a classical nor an exclusively literary or scientific course will meet this necessity. The rules of grammar must not absorb the rights of citizens, nor the study of our vernacular exclude a knowledge of the mother Constitution. We have national societies and national parties-an American system and an American policy; we want an American education. I hail your "Text Book" as a helpmeet in this cause. It has only a few competitors in the field. The diagram of the comparative population of the States, as well as the chart of their several Constitutions in their essential features, are very important additions for the scholar, and valuable as a matter of reference to the citizens generally. I hope it may furnish abundant reward to its publishers for their outlay of taste and expense in its mechanical appearance. CHARLES A. LORD. From Ex-U. S. Senator Bradbury, of Maine. AUGUSTA, ME., July 31, 1855. I think it better adapted to the purpose of a text-book, for use in our schools and seminaries of learning in acquiring a knowledge of the Constitution of the United States, than any work of the kind I have ever seen. It is designed to give not only a theoretical knowledge of the subject, but to make the pupil acquainted with the practical working of the different departments of the Government, and with the powers and limitations of each. Its general use in our schools can hardly be too strongly recommended. The more the fundamental law upon which our Union rests, is studied, and the blessings it secures, are contemplated, the better will the inestimable value of the Union be appreciated. JAS. W. BRADBURY. |