An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 páginas |
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... force of the statement . It was not difficult to show , that at no time in the history of Louisiana had the planters so bright a prospect of large and profitable bene- fits from their investments as in 1864 . Great as was the supposed ...
... force of the statement . It was not difficult to show , that at no time in the history of Louisiana had the planters so bright a prospect of large and profitable bene- fits from their investments as in 1864 . Great as was the supposed ...
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... force as therein required . HIRE AND COMPENSATION OF LABORERS . 4. Voluntary contracts heretofore made between planters and laborers , or which hereafter may be made , will be submitted to the Superintendent of Freedmen , and if found ...
... force as therein required . HIRE AND COMPENSATION OF LABORERS . 4. Voluntary contracts heretofore made between planters and laborers , or which hereafter may be made , will be submitted to the Superintendent of Freedmen , and if found ...
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... force . 14. This order shall be deemed and taken to have effect from the 1st day of February last , and all contracts entered into in relation to the labors of the present year will be held to be controlled , amended and governed by the ...
... force . 14. This order shall be deemed and taken to have effect from the 1st day of February last , and all contracts entered into in relation to the labors of the present year will be held to be controlled , amended and governed by the ...
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... superior . They do so , more because of the force of prejudice than because there are facts to justify them . In 1864 , the crop was so good , within the military lines of the I United States , that planters , lessees , speculators 12.
... superior . They do so , more because of the force of prejudice than because there are facts to justify them . In 1864 , the crop was so good , within the military lines of the I United States , that planters , lessees , speculators 12.
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... forces took possession of New Orleans , the temper of the inhabitants may be regarded as not very favorable , or very much im- proved ; and certainly the conduct of the authorities can be shown to be any- thing but encouraging . The ...
... forces took possession of New Orleans , the temper of the inhabitants may be regarded as not very favorable , or very much im- proved ; and certainly the conduct of the authorities can be shown to be any- thing but encouraging . The ...
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amendment American armies Ashmun Institute Attorney at Law authority bill Bureau cause Christian Church citizens civil command Committee condition Congress Constitution Court crime declared disfranchisement District duty E. R. S. CANBY election emancipation enforce equal ernment established fourteenth amendment freedmen Freedmen's Bureau freedom friends gentleman give Government hands honor House human hundred institution JEFFERSON CITY justice Kentucky labor land legislation Legislature liberty Lincoln University Louisiana loyal ment military millions moral nation never North O. O. HOWARD officers oppression Orleans party persons plantations planters political population Port Hudson prejudice President principle privileges proposed protection punishment question rebel rebellion Republic Republican right of suffrage right to vote schools secure Senator serfdom slave slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern spirit thousand tion to-day Union United Washington white race whole words
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Página 2 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Página 6 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 2 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 2 - Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts.
Página 11 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Página 16 - ... meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Página 20 - States to leave any state, district, or place where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties; each of such persons shall be punished...
Página 21 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Página 7 - Section 1. Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.