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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	738	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	98	0	Browse	Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	98	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.	78	0	Browse	Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government	72	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	72	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	54	0	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore)	52	0	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.	50	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10	50	0	Browse	Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], "the law and the Testimony." (search)

." --These were no proposed amendments, but they were declarations of right and of the common understanding in relation to the meaning of the Constitution. Virginia, in her ratification, declares and makes known "That the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby, remains with them and at their will." Rhode Island, when she ratified the Constitution of the United States, expressly declared "That the powers of government may be reassured by the people whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness."--[Same as New York.] As to the right or claim of the Federal Government to forts, &c., in a State after the State has been withdrawn from the Union, and has resumed all powers and rights once delegated. In the case of Pollard's lessee vs. Hagan, 3 Howard, S. P. C. R., pages 222 and 223,

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