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Life of Alexander H. Stephens

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J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883 - Confederate States of America - 635 pages
  

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Page 625 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 470 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 603 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 303 - ... act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to revive or put in force any law or regulation which may have existed prior to the act of sixth March, eighteen hundred and twenty, either protecting, establishing, prohibiting, or...
Page 312 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 313 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren ; but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 229 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil...
Page 311 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
Page 312 - When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel.
Page 606 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

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STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883) Bibliography
Little Aleck: A Life of Alexander H. Stephens, The Fighting Vice-President of the Confederacy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. Robb, James. ...
bioguide.congress.gov/ scripts/ bibdisplay.pl?index=S000854

Libro - Richard Malcolm Johnston - The Life of Alexander H ...
Titolo: The Life of Alexander H. Stephens; Autori: Richard Malcolm Johnston, William Hand Browne; Editore: Kessinger Publishing; Data di Pubblicazione: ...
www.webster.it/ book_usa-life_alexander_h_stephens_richard-9780548105405.htm

JSTOR: Who Wrote the Allison Letters: A Study in Historical Detection
Poage further pointed out that Weed claimed the authorship of "26The list includes E. Ramsey Richardson, Little Aleck: A Life of Alexander H. Stephens ...
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Georgia - lovetoknow 1911
See also: ej Harden's Life of George M. Troup (Savannah, 1840); rm Johnston and wh Browne, Life of Alexander H. Stephens (Philadelphia, 1878), ...
www.1911encyclopedia.org/ Georgia

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