Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress, Volumen24,Partes1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 - 822 páginas |
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Página xviii
... kind desire for the resumption of fraternal relations we receive only an insolent assumption of rights and privi- leges long since forfeited . The crime we have punished is paraded as a virtue , and the principles of republican ...
... kind desire for the resumption of fraternal relations we receive only an insolent assumption of rights and privi- leges long since forfeited . The crime we have punished is paraded as a virtue , and the principles of republican ...
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... kind Providence ; for the prospect of the restoration of law and order in our distracted State ; for the gleam of light , looking to peace , now breaking through the clouds that have enveloped us for the four years past ; for these and ...
... kind Providence ; for the prospect of the restoration of law and order in our distracted State ; for the gleam of light , looking to peace , now breaking through the clouds that have enveloped us for the four years past ; for these and ...
Página 102
... kind and forgiving spirit . Like causes produce like results ; and it is now in the power of the Congress of the United States to produce in the feelings of the masses of the southern people this same favorable change towards them ...
... kind and forgiving spirit . Like causes produce like results ; and it is now in the power of the Congress of the United States to produce in the feelings of the masses of the southern people this same favorable change towards them ...
Página 107
... kind of legislation they can establish a kind of peonage ; not absolute slavery , but that they can enact such laws as will enable them to manage the negro as they please - to fix the prices to be paid for his labor . That is a very ...
... kind of legislation they can establish a kind of peonage ; not absolute slavery , but that they can enact such laws as will enable them to manage the negro as they please - to fix the prices to be paid for his labor . That is a very ...
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... kind feel- ing towards the government . But I think they would obey the law as near as you could get any body of men to do it . I think the poorer classes who have been in the rebellion could be made truly loyal if proper efforts were ...
... kind feel- ing towards the government . But I think they would obey the law as near as you could get any body of men to do it . I think the poorer classes who have been in the rebellion could be made truly loyal if proper efforts were ...
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Página 84 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof: that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto: that I have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Página 6 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Página 85 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Página 82 - That his Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, requested...
Página 86 - The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit : Those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.
Página 85 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience...
Página 84 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Página 40 - And that the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this Resolution into effect.
Página 89 - In case of a disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment...
Página 90 - In cases of treason he shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to grant reprieves and pardons, and he may, in the recess of the senate, respite the sentence until the end of the next session of the general assembly.