Key-Notes of American Liberty

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Author

Various

Title

Key-Notes of American Liberty Comprising the most important speeches, proclamations, and acts of Congress, from the foundation of the government to the present time

Original Publication

New York, E. B. Treat & co.; Chicago, Ill., R. C. Treat and C. W. Lilley; [etc., etc.] 1866.

Credits

Produced by Curtis Weyant, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E151: History: America: United States

Subject

United States -- History -- Sources

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28831

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28831

Release Date

May 15, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. — A DECLARATION.
5. 5.CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. — ARTICLE I. — ARTICLE II. — ARTICLE III. — ARTICLE IV. — ARTICLE V. — ARTICLE VI. — ARTICLE VII.
6. 6.AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
7. 7.THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
8. 8.PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. — ARTICLE—.
9. 9.THE ORDINANCE OF 1787. — ARTICLE VI.
10. 10.THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1793. — ADOPTED FEBRUARY 12, 1793.
11. 11.THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850. — SIGNED SEPTEMBER 18, 1850.
12. 12.THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. — ADOPTED MARCH 6, 1820.
13. 13.THE STATES OF THE UNION.
14. 14.INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. — FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DELIVERED APRIL 30, 1789.
15. 15.WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
16. 16.PRESIDENT JACKSON'S PROCLAMATION, — ISSUED IN 1832, WHEN SOUTH CAROLINA UNDERTOOK TO ANNUL THE FEDERAL REVENUE LAW.
17. 17.MONROE DOCTRINE. — EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT MONROE'S ANNUAL MESSAGE, WASHINGTON, DEC. 2, 1823.
18. 18.THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. — DRED SCOTT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, vs. JOHN F.A. SANDFORD. — April Term , 1854.
19. 19.PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. — WITH THE VOTE FOR EACH CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE. — BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. — UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.
20. 20.POPULAR NAMES OF STATES.
21. 21.BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION.
22. 22.NEUTRALITY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES, — AS AMENDED AND APPROVED BY CONGRESS, JULY 26, 1866.
23. 23.POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
24. 24.SPEECH OF HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. — DELIVERED AT CHICAGO, MAY 1ST, 1861.
25. 25.PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS. — APRIL 15th, 1861.
26. 26.RESOLUTIONS OF THE N.Y. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. — SUSTAINING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND URGING A STRICT BLOCKADE OF SOUTHERN PORTS, APRIL 19TH, 1861. — BLOCKADE RESOLUTIONS.
27. 27.A PROCLAMATION, — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BLOCKADING THE SOUTHERN PORTS.
28. 28.THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
29. 29.THE CONFISCATION ACT. — TO CONFISCATE PROPERTY USED FOR INSURRECTIONARY PURPOSES.
30. 30.FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN — MARCH 4TH, 1861.
31. 31.THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE GOVERNMENT,
32. 32.PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SECOND AND LAST INAUGURAL ADDRESS. — March 4, 1865.
33. 33.PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF AMNESTY. — ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, DECEMBER 8, 1863.
34. 34.PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S AMNESTY PROCLAMATION. — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
35. 35.A PEACE PROCLAMATION.
36. 36.CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. — AS ADOPTED BY CONGRESS, MARCH, 1866.
37. 37.FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL, — AS AMENDED AND APPROVED BY THE XXXIXTH CONGRESS.
38. 38.PROVOST MARSHAL-GENERAL'S REPORT. — THE UNITED STATES ARMY DURING THE GREAT CIVIL WAR OF 1861-65.
39. 39.HISTORY OF THE FLAG. — BY A DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN.

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