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The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
necticut into one State; the States of Maryland and Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Virginia into one State. The second provides that the officers, President and Vice-President, be chosen alternately from the free and slave States; but both never at the same time, either from the free or slave States, for the term of four years; and that any person who may have filled the office of President shall be forever ineligible to it. The third provides that all the States, in the month of January next, before the expiration of the Presidential term, shall present candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, the free States for the one office and the slave States for the other, as they may be respectively entitled to one and the other office; and shall certify, severally, to the two Houses of Congress and to the Supreme Court the names of the persons so chosen, and for which office they have been chosen; and on the first Monday in February following, the Supreme Court, in the p