 I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure to the freedmen the full enjoyment of their freedom and property and their entire independence and equality in making contracts for their labor, but the bill before me contains provisions which in my...  The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment - Page 18by Horace Edgar Flack - 1908 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...experience may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to he adopted in time of peace. I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. The bill proposes to establish, by authority of Congress, military jurisdiction over all parts of tho... | |
 | Lillian Foster - Presidents - 1866 - 322 pages
...may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. "I have, with Congress,, the strongest .desire to secure to...the freedmen the full enjoyment of their freedom and their property and their entire independence and* equality in making contracts for their labor. But... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 684 pages
...experience may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. "I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. "The bill proposes to establish by authority qf Congress, military jurisdiction over all parts of the... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 726 pages
...experience may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. "I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. "The bill proposes to establish by authority of Congress, military jurisdiction over all parts of the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...experience may assist to guide ue to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. ic National Ojuucils, and we regard as worthy of public...the principles proclaimed in these resolutions, and contracta for their labor ; but the bill before me contains provisions which, in my opinion, are not... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...experience may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. ! A ; m making contracte for their labor ; but the bill before me contain» provisions which, in my opinion,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...experience may assist to guide us to a wise conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. The bill proposes to establish, by authority of Congress, military jurisdiction over ail parts of the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...conclusion as to the policy to be adopted in time of peace. I share with Congress the strongest ^°°iTfi tn secure to the freedmen the full enjoyment of their...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. 68 Trhicl. the freedmen niMt abound; and it expressly extends the existing temporary jurisdiction of... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...to additional legislation. The President expressed the strong desire which he shared with Congress, to secure to the freedmen the full enjoyment of their freedom and property ; but he suggested that the bill contained provisions which were, in his opinion, at war with the Constitution.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...be adopted in time of peace. "I share with Congress the strongest desire to secure to the freedrnen the full enjoyment of their freedom and property,...are not well suited to accomplish the end in view. "The bill proposes to establish, by authority of Congress, military jurisdiction over all parts of... | |
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