A Picture of the Desolated States: And the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868L. Stebbins, 1868 - 736 Seiten |
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... once to have been conscious that there exists such a thing as beauty . John Burns , known as the " hero of Gettysburg , " was almost the first person whose acquaintance I made . He was sitting under the thick shade of an English elm in ...
... once to have been conscious that there exists such a thing as beauty . John Burns , known as the " hero of Gettysburg , " was almost the first person whose acquaintance I made . He was sitting under the thick shade of an English elm in ...
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... once living and brave men , slowly mouldering to dust in this sanctified soil , form but a small , a single sheaf from that great recent harvest reaped by Death with the sickle of war . Once living and brave ! How full of life , how ...
... once living and brave men , slowly mouldering to dust in this sanctified soil , form but a small , a single sheaf from that great recent harvest reaped by Death with the sickle of war . Once living and brave ! How full of life , how ...
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... once sandy , covers his face ( shaved once or twice a week ) with a fine crop of silver stubble . A short , massy kind of man ; about five feet four or five inches in height , I should judge . He was never measured but once in his life ...
... once sandy , covers his face ( shaved once or twice a week ) with a fine crop of silver stubble . A short , massy kind of man ; about five feet four or five inches in height , I should judge . He was never measured but once in his life ...
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... once thought of that side of the question . The town is full of similar reminiscences ; and it is a subject which everybody except the " Copperheads " likes to talk with you about . There were heroic women here , too . On the evening of ...
... once thought of that side of the question . The town is full of similar reminiscences ; and it is a subject which everybody except the " Copperheads " likes to talk with you about . There were heroic women here , too . On the evening of ...
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... once . A house was entered , a can of kerosene emptied on a bed , and in an in- stant up went a burst of flame . Extensive plundering was done . Citizens were told that if they would give their money their houses would be spared . The ...
... once . A house was entered , a can of kerosene emptied on a bed , and in an in- stant up went a burst of flame . Extensive plundering was done . Citizens were told that if they would give their money their houses would be spared . The ...
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Seite 675 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Seite 609 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Seite 597 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 243 - ... and the interest thereof shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and encouragement of common schools throughout the State, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof; and no law shall be made authorizing said fund or any part thereof to be diverted to any other use than the support and encouragement of common schools.
Seite 615 - State legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof...
Seite 618 - An act to prescribe an oath of office :" Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so offending and being thereof duly convicted shall be subject to the pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Seite 681 - Washington, and all orders and instructions relating to military operations issued by the President or Secretary of War shall be issued through the General of the army, and in case of his inability, through the next in rank.
Seite 603 - We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States.
Seite 144 - Time! the beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled — Time! the corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, — sole philosopher, For all beside are sophists, from thy thrift, Which never loses though it doth defer — Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift: cxxxi.
Seite 680 - Columbia, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office...