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Showing posts with label Constitutinal Amendments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitutinal Amendments. Show all posts
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to Senator Henry Wilson,* Washington, December 13, 1860

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Columbus , Dec. 13, [ 60. ] Dear Wilson , You will not I trust think me obtrusive if I give you briefly my thoughts concerning the duti...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Gerrit Smith to Senator Charles Sumner, December 5, 1864 [Extract]

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An amendment implying that without it, the constitution would authorize or even tolerate slavery, would do great injustice to those who ado...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

The Crittenden Compromise, December 18, 1860

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[ in United States Senate, December 18, I860 .] A joint resolution ( § 50) proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the Uni...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 5, 1862

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Yesterday there was some little skirmishing below Fredericksburg. But it rained last night, and still rains. Lee has only 30,000 or 40,000 ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, June 16, 1864

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Day Of The Battle Of Ligny , June 16, 1864. My Dear Don Carlos , — If your eye should alight on Mr. Pruyne's remarks in “The Globe,...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, March 5, 1864

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New York , March 5, 1884. I send you a copy of the amendments which I think, and many of which I have long thought, ought to be engraft...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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December 1, 1862. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Since your last annual assembling another year of healt...