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Common terms and phrases38th Cong A. P. Field action admitted adopted amendment Andrew Johnson appointed Arkansas army assembled asserted authority believed bill citizens civil committee commonwealth condition Confederate Congress Constitution convention court Cycl Davis December declared delegates duty election electoral votes emancipation Emancipation Proclamation ernment Executive existence favor Federal form of government free negro freedmen Freedmen's Bureau Globe Henry Winter Davis hostile House Ibid insurrection Jefferson Davis legislation Legislature Louisiana loyal government majority McPherson's Pol measure ment military negro or mulatto North Carolina oath officers opinion organized Papers of Lincoln party peace persons political President's proclamation proposed Provisional Governor question rebel rebellion recognize reconstruction reorganization Representatives republican form resolution restoration secession Senator Sess session slavery slaves South Southern suffrage Sumner Tennessee territory Thaddeus Stevens tion treason Trumbull Union Union army United United States Senators voters West Virginia Popular passagesPage 229 - the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. Page 151 - directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. Page 169 - of a joint resolution declaring: That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system. Page 190 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or States wherein the constitutional authority of the United States shall not then be practically recognized, submitted to, and maintained, shall then, thenceforward, and forever be free. 1 Page 457 - life, liberty, and property, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and Commander-inChief of the army and navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden, Provisional Governor of the State of North Carolina, whose duty it shall be, at the earliest practicable period, to prescribe such rules and regulations as Page 84 - people as shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class; " and also except that all now existing laws in relation to slaves are inoperative and void; that said election Page 162 - the same subject shall be proposed, its propriety will be duly considered. The Union must be preserved; and hence all indispensable means must be employed. We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, are indispensable. Page 210 - upheld by the historic example of England, at the Revolution of 1688, when, on the flight of James II. and the abandonment of his kingly duties, the two Houses of Parliament voted that the monarch, ' having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.' Page 52 - For my own part, I think I shall not, in any event, retract the emancipation proclamation; nor, as executive, ever return to slavery any person who is freed by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. Page 218 - States, bearing the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other, and whilst inflicting on the guilty leaders condign and exemplary punishment, granting amnesty and oblivion to the comparatively innocent masses; and if the people of any State cannot, or will not reconstruct their State References from web pagesJSTOR: Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction. Vol. 50, pg 104, Ohio History Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK HISN Historian 0018-2370 1964 ... SHQ Online :: Volume 019 Number 1 :: Issue View THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY 97OJ Ab3s \luhci. SURVEY \, The ... Bibliographic information
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