Rail-road Usurpation of New JerseyNew York young men's republican union, 1865 - 12 Seiten |
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Seite 9 - Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land...
Seite 11 - CHR. I am come from the City of Destruction, which is the place of all evil, and am going to the City of Zion. APOL. By this I perceive thou art one of my subjects, for all that country is mine; and I am the prince and god of it.
Seite 11 - So he went on, and Apollyon met him. Now the monster was hideous to behold ; he was clothed with scales, like a fish (and they are his pride), he had wings like a dragon, feet like a bear, and out of his belly came fire and smoke, and his mouth was as the mouth of a lion.
Seite 11 - ... name. The national unity would be destroyed. The taste of revenue is to a government like the taste of blood to a wild beast, exciting and maddening the energies, so that it becomes deaf to suggestions of justice ; and the difficulties must increase, where this taxation is enforced by a comprehensive monopoly. The State, once tasting this blood, sees only an easy way of obtaining the means it desires ; and other States will yield to the same temptation. The poet, after picturing vice as a monster...
Seite 11 - But now in this Valley of Humiliation poor Christian was hard put to it, for he had gone but a little way before he espied a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon. Then did Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast in his mind whether to go back, or to stand his ground.
Seite 10 - I hold it for a fundamental point, that an individual independence of the States is utterly irreconcilable with the idea of an aggregate sovereignty. I think, at the same time, that a consolidation of the States into one simple republic is not less unattainable than it would be inexpedient. Let it be tried, then, whether any middle ground can be taken, which will at once support a due supremacy of the national authority, and leave in force the local...
Seite 7 - States, when in his judgment the public safety may require it, be, and he is hereby, authorized to take possession of any or all the telegraph lines in the United States, their offices and appurtenances; to take possession of any or all the railroad lines in the United States, their rolling stock, their offices, shops, buildings, and all their appendages and appurtenances...
Seite 6 - It does not stop at the mere boundary line of a state, nor is it confined to acts done on the water or in the necessary course of the navigation thereof. It extends to such acts done on land which interfere with, obstruct or prevent the due exercise of the power to regulate commerce and navigation with foreign nations and among the states.
Seite 7 - Government; to place under military control all the officers, agents, and employes belonging to the telegraph and railroad lines thus taken possession of by the President, so that they shall be considered as a post road and a part of the military establishment of the United States, subject to all the restrictions imposed by the Rules and Articles of War.
Seite 10 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.