History of the Union League of Philadelphia, from Its Origin and Foundation to the Year 1882J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 170 pages |
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Adolph E adopted annual meeting appointed Ashhurst Benjamin Gerhard Board of Directors Boker BORIE By-Laws CALDWELL called campaign Charles Gibbons citizens CLAGHORN Colonel Committee on Enlistments Constitution Daniel Dougherty DANIEL SMITH December Documentary History duty E. C. KNIGHT EDWIN February February 23 FRAILEY SMITH gentlemen GEORGE H GEORGE WHITNEY Gillingham Fell Governor Curtin HENRY Horace Binney hundred J. G. FELL J. I. Clark Hare JAMES H JAMES L James Milliken JOHN laws League house League of Philadelphia League's Lewis Lindley Smyth loyal medal ment Meredith Messrs Morton McMichael N. B. Browne Newly elected organization Orne party patriotic Pennsylvania PETTIT political present President Lincoln Professor Gibbs purpose rebellion regiments Republican resolutions RICHARD WRIGHT Secretary social Southern special meeting SPENCER MILLER Thomas tion troops Union Club Union League Club United VERREE Vice-President volunteers WAYNE MACVEAGH William D WILLIAM SELLERS York
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Page 144 - The bidder or bidders to whom any contract may have been awarded shall make and execute a good and sufficient bond payable to the State of Oklahoma in the sum of not less than ten thousand dollars to be approved by the governor, such bond to be conditioned that the contractor or contractors shall faithfully perform all conditions of the contract.
Page 160 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 147 - ... substance, without first recording in a book to be kept for that purpose the name and residence of the person receiving such poison, together with the kind and quantity of such poison received and the name and residence of some person known to such dealer, as a witness to the transaction, except upon the written order or prescription of some practicing physician whose name is attached to the order...
Page 20 - I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 160 - For the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think proper.
Page 132 - ASSOCIATION 1. The condition of membership shall be absolute and unqualified loyalty to the Government of the United States, and unwavering support to its efforts for the suppression of the Rebellion. 2. The primary object of the Association shall be to discountenance and rebuke, by moral and social influences, all disloyalty to the Federal Government, and to that end the members will use every proper means in public and private.
Page 15 - That in the deliberate judgment of the Democracy of Philadelphia, and, so far as we know it, of Pennsylvania, the dissolution of the Union by the separation of the whole South, a result we shall most sincerely lament, may release this Commonwealth to a large extent from the bonds which now connect her with the Confederacy...
Page 155 - The Union League of Philadelphia, composed as it is of those who having formerly belonged to various parties, in this juncture recognize no party but their country ; and representing, as it does, all the industrial, mechanical, manufacturing, commercial, financial, and professional interests of the city, is especially qualified to give in this behalf an unbiased and authentic utterance to the public sentiment ; therefore, Resolved, That to the prudence, sagacity, comprehension, and perseverance of...
Page 16 - ... shall most sincerely lament, may release this Commonwealth to a large extent from the bonds which now connect her with the Confederacy, except so far as for temporary convenience she chooses to submit to them, and would authorize and require her citizens, through a Convention, to be assembled for that purpose, to determine with whom her lot should be cast, whether with the North and the East, whose fanaticism has precipitated this misery upon us, or with our brethren of the South, whose wrongs...
Page 156 - Resolved, That a committee of seventy-six be appointed, whose duty it shall be to promote the object now proposed, by correspondence with other loyal organizations, by stimulating the expression of public opinion, and by whatever additional modes shall, in their judgment, seem best adapted to the end ; and that this committee have power to supply vacancies in their own body, and to increase their number at their own discretion.