The Life of John J. Crittenden: With Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches, Bind 2Mrs. Chapman Coleman J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 |
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... wishes in less vivid colors and with much more feeble power by the aid of my pen . I have often boasted to you of the Dupont family of Dela- ware ; I have told you how proud I was of their friendship , and therefore I need not repeat to ...
... wishes in less vivid colors and with much more feeble power by the aid of my pen . I have often boasted to you of the Dupont family of Dela- ware ; I have told you how proud I was of their friendship , and therefore I need not repeat to ...
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... wishes of good friends and cause some dissatis- faction on their part . Yet , having yielded my seat in the Senate to obey the wishes of the Whigs of Kentucky in becoming , at their bidding , a candidate for the office of governor , it ...
... wishes of good friends and cause some dissatis- faction on their part . Yet , having yielded my seat in the Senate to obey the wishes of the Whigs of Kentucky in becoming , at their bidding , a candidate for the office of governor , it ...
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... wish you would inform him how I feel and what I have here written in regard to him . What part does our Frankfort senator and representative take ? Farewell . ORLANDO BROWN , Esq . - Your friend , J. J. CRITTENDEN . P.S. To my good ...
... wish you would inform him how I feel and what I have here written in regard to him . What part does our Frankfort senator and representative take ? Farewell . ORLANDO BROWN , Esq . - Your friend , J. J. CRITTENDEN . P.S. To my good ...
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... wish to intrude myself upon her for reluctant favors . When my services cease to be acceptable to her , to hold office under her would no longer be an object of ambition for me . Yours , J. J. CRITTENDEN . ( J. J. Crittenden to Orlando ...
... wish to intrude myself upon her for reluctant favors . When my services cease to be acceptable to her , to hold office under her would no longer be an object of ambition for me . Yours , J. J. CRITTENDEN . ( J. J. Crittenden to Orlando ...
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... wish I could live long enough , or had the means of repaying , Orlando , all the debts I owe my friends . But therein I am a bankrupt indeed . Do give my grateful regards to my friends Caldwell and Cunningham , and to all the friends ...
... wish I could live long enough , or had the means of repaying , Orlando , all the debts I owe my friends . But therein I am a bankrupt indeed . Do give my grateful regards to my friends Caldwell and Cunningham , and to all the friends ...
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Side 267 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Side 327 - Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion and resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged, upon our part, in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired...
Side 235 - The third clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Side 327 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Side 43 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.
Side 235 - SEC. 6. The first, third and fifth sections, together with this section of these amendments, and the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the constitution, and the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article thereof, shall not be amended or abolished without the consent of all the states.
Side 234 - That the following articles be and are hereby proposed and submitted as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of said Constitution, when ratified by conventions of three-fourths of the several States : ARTICLE i. In all the territory of the United States now held, or hereafter acquired, situate north of latitude 36° 30...
Side 234 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, twothirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...
Side 54 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Side 201 - States, a series of resolutions, afterward slightly modified to read as follows : " 1. Resolved, That, in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the States, adopting the same, acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the Federal Government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign...