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Excerpt from The War Powers of Congress, and of the President: An Address Delivered Before the National Club of Salem, March 13, 1863They, [the people] mean to uphold a Union, under the Constitu tion, interpreted by common sense a government able to attain results worthy of a great and free people, and for which it was founded, a republic, representing the sovereign majesty of the whole nation, clothed with ample powers to maintain its suprema...

Excerpt from Constitutional Law and Unconstitutional Divinity: Letters to Rev. Henry M. Dexter, and to Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.DSir, - I am in the receipt of that compound mixture of political piety and partisan politics, The Congregational ist of the 7th instant, containing your letter to me, dated on the 3d.Ifyou entertain a supposition that my reference to you, in the letter which I lately addressed to the People of Mas sachusetts, was writte...

Excerpt from The War Powers of Congress, and of the President: An Address Delivered Before the National Club of Salem, March 13, 1863They, [the people] mean to uphold a Union, under the Constitu tion, interpreted by common sense a government able to attain results worthy of a great and free people, and for which it was founded, a republic, representing the sovereign majesty of the whole nation, clothed with ample powers to maintain its suprema...

Excerpt from The Discussion Between Rev. Joel Parker, and Rev. A Rood: On the Question, What Are the Evils Inseparable From Slavery, " Which Was Referred to by Mrs. Stowe, in Uncle Tom's CabinThe introduction of the paragraph embodied in Mrs. Stowe's work was in good faith, and without the slightest suspicion that they were not the exact words used by Dr. Parker in his controversy. How, when, or where the alter ation was made, we have no means...

Excerpt from The First Charter and the Early Religious Legislation of Massachusetts: A Lecture in a Course on the Early History of Massachusetts, by Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Delivered Feb. 9, 1869IT has been regarded as a subject of complacency, that we know our origin, and can trace our history, that while other communities seek their early history in the mists of conjecture, or the myt...

Excerpt from Daniel Webster as a Jurist: An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at CambridgeI pass over his professional life during his resi dence in Rockingham. It was one of constant em ployment. He argued more cases, it is said, than any other member of the bar, but most of them were not of a character to live in history. Instances are related of his sagacity and success there, but a single anecdote must suffice at ...

Excerpt from Lectures on UniversalismThat similar effects may be multiplied, and that those disciples of Christ who may favor it with a perusal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original forma...

Excerpt from The Domestic and Foreign Relations of the United StatesWhen a nation cannot obtain justice, whether for a wrong or an injury, she has a right to do herself justice. But before she declare war (of which we shall treat in the following Book), there are various methods practised among nations, which remain to be treated of here. Among those methods of obtaining satisfaction has been reckoned what is called the law of retaliation, acc...

Excerpt from The Presbyterian's Hand-Book of the Church: For the Use of Members, Deacons, Elders, and MinistersIN preparing this Manual, we have attempt ed to meet a want in the Presbyterian Church which we have often felt ourselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses sta...

Excerpt from Constitutional Law: With Reference to the Present Condition of the United StatesNew York and the inhabitants of that district contended for their right to admission into the Union as an independent State but the United States claimed nothing there.The Articles of Confederation contained a provision by which Canada, acceding to the Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, was to be admitted into, and entitle...

Excerpt from The Right of Secession: A Review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the Congress of the Confederate StatesMemorandum. - The substance of the argument contained in the following pages was originally delivered as a Lecture to the students in the Law School of Harvard College, in the discharge of the regular duties of the author as Royall Professor of Law in that Institution.The Editor of the North American Review, desirous of givi...

Excerpt from The Law School of Harvard CollegeMatters of personal privilege are said to be always in order, and personal privilege is often personal explanation.This paper asks attention to some matters pertaining to the history of the Law School of Harvard College, which must necessarily partake somewhat of that character.I am impelled to this course by two publications, appearing near the same time in the month of October, - the first a shor...

Excerpt from The True Issue, and the Duty of the Whigs: An Address Before the Citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856 The result of this horrible iniquity has been stated in the appeals for aid recently made to the people of the Eastern States. God grant that hearts may feel and hands may open as they never felt and opened before, in aid of the Free State settlers in Kansas, that the storms of the coming winter may not sweep over the desolate ...

Excerpt from Habeas Corpus and Martial Law: A Review of the Opinion of Chief Justice Taney, in the Case of John Merryman From the concluding part of the opinion, it appears that the Chief Justice not only denies the right of the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and the right of General Cadwalader to decline compliance with the command of the writ requiring him to appear with the prisoner and show the cause of the detention, but...

Excerpt from International Law: Case of the Trent, Capture and Surrender of Mason and Slidell States had made a. Seizure on board the Trent of that de scription. In the mean time no principles of international law have been settled in relation to the rights of belligerents and neu trals. The demand is couched in the most general terms, ignoring all the particular circumstances upon which the seiz ure was made, and which were supposed by Capt...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books on Education examine the process of transferring knowledge, skills, and beliefs to students. This is generally undertaken in educational institutions where teachers or trainers impart the knowledge viastructured programs, but may also be achieved through "self-teaching" by the student. The usual progression is through middle and high school, to college and / or university. The act of teaching is called pedagogy. Books in t...

Excerpt from Daniel Webster as a Jurist: An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at Cambridge He appears at the same term to have conducted the defence in an action of assumpsit, in which a verdict for an amount a little larger was rendered against his client. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction ...