Augustus Caesar Dodge: A Study in American PoliticsState University of Iowa, 1909 - 369 sider |
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Side 135 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Side 72 - ... a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas River where the same empties into the Missouri River; thence from the point aforesaid north along the said meridian line to the intersection of the parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids of the river Des Moines...
Side 135 - But let its humbled sons, instead, From sea to lake, A long lament, as for the dead, In sadness make. Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains; A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains.
Side 309 - An act granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the States of Illinois, Mississippi and Alabama, in aid of the construction of a railroad from Chicago to Mobile...
Side 148 - That the public lands of the United States belong to the people, and should not be sold to individuals nor granted to corporations...
Side 322 - ... does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union? Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power...
Side 333 - No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Side 175 - ... in relation to details and specific provisions, the acquiescence of distinguished citizens, whose devotion to the Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our institutions and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
Side 28 - Let him fire !" " Stand out of the way !" "I have no pistols!" " I disdain to carry arms!" "Stand out of the way and let the assassin fire!
Side 13 - I instantly ordered a charge on them, made by eighteen men, which was promptly obeyed ; the Indians being under the bank, our guns were brought within ten or fifteen feet of them before we could fire on them. Their party consisted of thirteen men ; eleven were killed on the spot, and the remaining two were killed in crossing the lake, so that they were left without one to carry the news to their friends. The volunteers under my command, behaved with great gallantry ; it would be impossible for me...