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afterwards Alexander amend ancestors appointed Asa Biggs Assembly Badger Battle Berne Biggs born Burton Craige Caldwell Charlotte Clerk College Colonel Committee Confederate Congress Constitution Convention Documents Convention Journal Convention of 1861 Convention Ordinances County Court Craige Currituck county Davidson death December delegate Democrat died Dillard District Edwards elected farmer father Fayetteville February Ferebee Gaston George graduated Graham House of Commons James January John Johnston Jones June law under Judge Leak legislature license Lincoln March McDowell McNeill Mecklenburg Moore's History native county North Carolina opposed to secession Ordinance of Secession parents Presbyterian Church President public office Railroad Company Raleigh Rayner read law received removed represented resigned Richmond Ruffin Samuel Scotch-Irish secede Senate served settled sketch Smith soon South Spruill studied law Superior Court Thomas Thomas Ruffin tion troops Union University of North Virginia volunteers vote Warren Washington Weldon N Wheeler's Reminiscences Whig Wilkes county William Wilmington Woodfin
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Page 142 - All courts shall be open and every person for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.
Page 42 - He was a member of the Lower House of the General Assembly of his state in the session of 1883.
Page 73 - He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and from Harvard 8 in 1867.
Page 17 - He was for many years a Justice of the Peace and also a member of the old County Court.
Page 8 - ... declaring North Carolina free and independent. All reference to secession as a legal right was carefully avoided by Mr. Badger. Before the vote was taken Mr. Craige, the floor leader of the secessionists, offered an ordinance and moved it as a substitute for that of Mr. Badger. Mr. Craige's ordinance,104 based on the constitutional right of a state to withdraw from the Union at will, simply abrogated and rescinded the ordinance of the state convention which ratified the Constitution of the United...
Page 8 - ... but under implied instructions to separate from the federal Union. Of the one hundred and twenty delegates elected the whole number were soon in attendance. That the people of the state realized the gravity of the situation is attested by the character of the convention. Sixty-seven of the delegates had had the advantage, either in whole or in part, of a collegiate education. Of the remaining fiftythree, sixteen were physicians who had taken professional courses.102 From the list of delegates...
Page 140 - Court in 1857 to consist of a chief justice and three associate justices to be elected for eight-year terms.
Page 132 - All connection of government between this State and the United States, dissolved and abrogated, and this State to be a free, sovereign, and independent State, owing no subordination, obedience, support or other duty to them, their constitution, or authorities. 2nd. That "this State has full power -to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 65 - He led his class in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Receiving his degree in 1847, he located in his native county.
Page 92 - ... from 1868 to 1886, was a member of the board of education of that city. In 1875 he was elected judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Michigan for the full term of six years. He presided for four years of his term, when he resigned and returned to his regular practice at the bar. Judge Baldwin was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860, delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention in 1864, delegate to the national peace convention in Philadelphia in...