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Browsing named entities in Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for Maine (Maine, United States) or search for Maine (Maine, United States) in all documents.

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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix (search)
rs offered by individuals and towns and states and the general government. The frauds practiced on the poor negroes in enlistments, in withholding bounties, in misapplication of what had been accumulated under orders of Butler and other generals, constitute a dark chapter in the mysterious history of the freedmen's bureau and in other unrecorded occurrences of the war. In 1870 was published the report of the commissioners on equalization of the municipal war debts by the general assembly of Maine. It contains curious and disgraceful matters of history in regard to the method of furnishing men for the army and navy. It transpires in that official comment that substitute brokers did a business so important and profitable as to call for the formation of partnerships, which plied their iniquitous transactions so adroitly and actively and fraudulently, as to obtain large sums, hundreds of thousands of dollars, for men who were never reported for duty. This wrong to the municipalities,
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
hich was disputed. If the area of Vermont and Maine be added, which were independently erected intinois33 Indiana33 Kentucky1212 Louisiana33 Maine99 Maryland11101 Massachusetts1578 Mississiplicated with the question for the admission of Maine. In the Senate, the South could put a veto onts had already assented to the separation, and Maine had formed a constitution. The petitions for admission, one from Maine and one from Missouri, were presented to the House in December, 1819. A bill for the admission of Maine speedily passed and was sent to the Senate, while the petition of Muri was admitted, the South would gladly admit Maine. If the North chose to block the further admiois, became the ultimate basis of compromise. Maine was admitted. The act enabling Missouri to fo. No further act of Congress being necessary, Maine became a State at once. Missouri was doomedois99 Indiana1212 Kentucky1212 Louisiana66 Maine99 Maryland88 Massachusetts1212 Michigan55
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
r. Webster at his house, and met with his full concurrence. The platform was voted for by 227 yeas against 65 nays. New York, Ohio and Michigan voted against it; Maine divided equally upon it—thus showing that twenty-seven States agreed to it out of the thirty-one represented. Greeley and his faction having condemned the settlemaine, and the result of the Presidential election of 1856 settled nothing except that a mightier struggle was in the future. These words of the great Senator from Maine, written nearly thirty years after this election, express the conclusion which at once heightened the fever of Southern anxiety. Buchanan—inaugurated March 4, 1st upon its care by the authors of it. On the third ballot Mr. Lincoln, of Illi. nois, was nominated for the Presidency, and immediately afterward Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, was named for the second office. A patriotic attempt was made, chiefly by the Whigs and Americans, to make a fight for the Union under the name of the Constitu