Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Testimony, GeorgiaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1872 |
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Side 960 - SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall by law establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient system of free public schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance.
Side 960 - In all elections, every white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election ; and every white male inhabitant of the age aforesaid, who may be a resident of the state at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid...
Side 960 - Provided, that no soldier, sailor or marine in the military or naval service of the United States, shall acquire the rights of an elector, by reason of being stationed on duty in this State...
Side 802 - That no new civilization can be equal to the demands of the age which does not lay its foundations in the intelligence of the people, and in the multiplication and social elevation of educated industries.
Side 959 - Section 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election, and ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector.
Side 801 - Education is the one subject for which no people ever yet paid too much. Indeed, the more they pay, the richer they become. Nothing is so costly as ignorance, and nothing so cheap as knowledge. Even under old civilizations the States and people who provided the greatest educational dissemination and advantages were always the most wealthy, the most powerful, the most feared and respected by others, and the most secure in every right of person and property among themselves. And this truth will be...
Side 608 - He laid there until we could get a crowd of white men to hold an inquest over him. "By this time Mr. Wallace arrived. He got there about 10 o'clock in the day. When Mr. Wallace drove up to the gate these white men who were holding the inquest were sitting under a tree inside of the gate. He said, "Allen, you have had a death out here.
Side 794 - Nor can we afford to waste time and strength in defense of theories and systems, however valued in their day, which have been swept down by the moving avalanche of actual events.
Side 999 - DIVISIONS Art III. This * shall be divided into five departments, all combined, constituting the Grand * of the Empire. The second department to be called the Grand * of the Realm. The third, the Grand * of the Dominion. The fourth, the Grand * of the Province. The fifth, the * of the Den.
Side 1088 - ... might result in a loss to the government of $1,000,000 to build two new ships. The Secretary of the Navy then wrote saying that he would be very glad to put the ships in repair before delivery. Now in this matter we were doing a service to the Secretary of the Navy as much as we were to the President of the United States and to the government of the United States, for we gave the Secretary of the Navy information which he would not have had otherwise, so as to enable him, by his action, to serve...