A Biographical History of Lancaster County ...: Being a History of Early Settlers and Eminent Men of the County; as Also Much Other Unpublished Historical Information, Chiefly of a Local CharacterE. Barr & Company, 1872 - 638 strán (strany) |
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A Biographical History of Lancaster County ...: Being a History of Early ... Alexander Harris Úplné zobrazenie - 1872 |
A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early ... Alexander Harris Úplné zobrazenie - 1872 |
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Abraham afterwards American amongst Anti-Masonic party appointed became Benjamin Bishop Boehm born borough brother Buchanan caster Chester county Christian church citizens city of Lancaster congregation Congress Court daughter David death Democratic descendants died district duties early East Lampeter township elected a member Elizabeth emigrated engaged farm father friends George German Governor grandson held Henry Herr honor Indians Isaac Isaac Walker Jacob James James Buchanan John Joseph Judge labor Lampeter Lancaster bar Lancaster city Lancaster county land Legislature Little Britain township lived Manheim March married Martin Mennonite native never Nissley nominated party Pennsylvania Pequea Peter Philadelphia political position preached profession Rapho township reelected regiment resides Sadsbury Sadsbury township Samuel Senate served session settled settlers slavery sons Stevens Strasburg Thaddeus Stevens tion took township Warwick township Whig wife William
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Strana 113 - ... delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw, or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?' If answered in the affirmative, it must be on the principle that the power has been conferred upon Congress to make war against a State.
Strana 114 - MADISON observed, that the more he reflected on the use of force, the more he doubted the practicability, the justice, and the efficacy of it, when applied to people collectively, and not individually. A union of the states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts...
Strana 113 - The question fairly stated is : Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw, or has actually withdrawn, from the Confederacy?
Strana 569 - The lion and the lamb shall lie down together and a little child shall lead them.
Strana 67 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Strana 74 - For I determined not to know any thing among yon, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Strana 230 - ... yard and sails : she has two bowsprits and jibs, and four rudders, one at each extremity of each boat, so that she can be steered with either end foremost : her machinery is calculated for the addition of an engine which will discharge an immense column of water, which it is intended to throw upon the decks and through the port-holes of an enemy and thereby deluge her armament and ammunition.
Strana 114 - Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon afterwards, on the 8th June, 1787, when incidentally adverting to the subject, he said: "Any Government for the United States, formed on the supposed practicability of using force against the unconstitutional proceedings of the States, would prove as visionary and fallacious as the government of Congress," evidently meaning the then existing Congress of the old Confederation.
Strana 598 - I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race. I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his creator.
Strana 24 - ... the purest motives, to gentlemen whose stations in life entitle them to respect however they may differ in political sentiments from those in whose power they are. You will please to give them every aid in your power by procuring the necessary means of traveling in wagons or otherwise, with such baggage as may be convenient for them on the road. Here was a long-delayed acknowledgment of the honesty and sincerity of the motives of the prisoners, and a practical withdrawal of the charges against...