Congressional Serial Set

Portada
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867
 

Continguts

413
43
828
73
16
119
1
129
3
139
00
213
3
267
3
329
19
546
3301
578
22
590

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Passatges populars

Pàgina 38 - The legislature shall have power to pass laws extending suffrage to such other persons, citizens of the United States, as by military service, by taxation to support the government, or by intellectual fitness, may be deemed entitled thereto.
Pàgina 28 - ... provided, that if more than one amendment be submitted, they shall be submitted in such manner and form that the people may vote for, or against each amendment separately and distinctly...
Pàgina 28 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of...
Pàgina 48 - Convention of 1864, met on the 30th, for, as it is alleged, the purpose of remodelling the present constitution of the State. The leaders were political agitators and revolutionary men, and the action of the convention was liable to produce breaches of the public peace. I had made up my mind to arrest the head men if the proceedings of the convention were calculated to disturb the tranquility of the Department, but I had no cause for action until they committed the overt act.
Pàgina 24 - So much for the New Orleans riot. And there was the cause and the origin of the blood that was shed; and every drop of blood that was shed is upon their skirts, and they are responsible for it.
Pàgina 39 - For any meeting whatsoever of great numbers of people, with such circumstances of terror as cannot but endanger the public peace, and raise fears and jealousies among the king's subjects...
Pàgina 24 - I have been traduced here, and you have provoked questions of this kind, though it don't provoke me, I will tell you a few wholesome things that has been done by this radical Congress. (Cheers.) " In connection with New Orleans and the extension of the elective franchise, I know that I have been traduced and abused. I know it...
Pàgina 16 - This riotous attack upon the Convention, with its terrible results of massacre and murder, was not an accident. It was the determined purpose of the Mayor of the city of New Orleans to break up this Convention by armed force. We state one fact in this connection, significant both as bearing upon the question of preparation and as indicating the true and prevailing feeling of the people of New Orleans. Six months have passed since the Convention assembled, when the massacre was perpetrated, and more...
Pàgina 28 - Legislature, and held within ninety days after the adjournment of the same, and after thirty days' publication according to law ; and if a majority of the voters at said election shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, the same shall become a part of the Constitution. If more than one amendment be submitted at a time, they shall be submitted in such manner and form, that the people may vote...
Pàgina 24 - If you will take up the riot at New Orleans, and trace it back to its source or its immediate cause, you will find out who was responsible for the blood that was shed there. If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to the radical Congress, you will find that the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned. If you will take up the...

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