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October 16, 1854 In order to get a clear understanding of what the Missouri Compromise is, a short history … will perhaps be proper. When we established our independence, we
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202175. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In the midst
Source: 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/83/36 Mr. Justice MILLER … delivered the opinion of the court. These cases are brought here by writs of error to the Supreme
Source: Senator Jacob Howard, Speech introducing the 14th Amendment, May 23, 1866, Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 2764–2766, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=072/llcg072.db&recNum=845. … The section of the amendment they have submitted
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Special Session Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202522. … It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether
Source: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession (Charleston, South Carolina: Evans & Cogswell,
80 U.S. 13 Wall. 72 72 (1871), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/80/72/. Mr. Justice Miller delivered the opinion of the Court.1 . . .[I]t is not to be denied that the argument [that the
71 U.S. 2; https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/71/2/. Justice Davis delivered the opinion of the court.1 The controlling question in the case is this:. . . had the military commission . . . jurisdiction
Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, Second Printed Draft, with Changes in Lincoln’s Hand, May 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Series 1, General Correspondence, Manuscript/Mixed Material, https://www.loc.gov/item/mal1057200/ Fellow citizens
