The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volum 12

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Texas State Historical Association, 1909
 

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Pàgina 211 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Pàgina 163 - Fellows, and the body thus created may thereafter elect additional Fellows on the nomination of the Executive Council. The number of Fellows shall never exceed twenty-five.
Pàgina 211 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Pàgina 240 - Memories of the Far West, 18521868. By RH Williams, edited by EW Williams.
Pàgina 200 - To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the...
Pàgina 89 - I have hereunto signed my name, and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed, at the city of Austin, this...
Pàgina 250 - Capt. Appleton, I am informed that JW Zacherie denied that there was any Powder on board schooner Pelicano. I do assure you that there was 280 kegs— whether he knew it or not, I am not able to say. In addition to the above quantity, there were a number stowed in barrels of apples, potatoes, etc. I have found a number of letters on the Prize which proved the above fact. I feel it to be my duty to state these facts in regard to the Powder. There was no mention made of it on the manifest. My situation...
Pàgina 177 - I approve and have signed. The next in order is the ordinance establishing a Navy, and granting letters of marque and reprisal. To this bill I am bound to object as it now stands. The privileges granted to privateers seems to me rather unbounded. — That this Government takes all the responsibilities without any interest in the captures which may be made. If prizes are brought into our ports, the Government will be at the expense of adjudication and sale, without remuneration, provided they should...
Pàgina 133 - No State of its own will has the right, under the Constitution, to renounce its place in, or to withdraw from, the Union. Nor has the Congress of the United States, under the Constitution, the power to degrade the people of any State by reducing them to the condition of a mere territorial dependency upon the Federal head. The one is a disruption and dissolution of the government; the other is consolidation and the exercise of despotic power. The advocates of either are alike the enemies of the Union...
Pàgina 250 - General Houston refers to the capture of the Pelicano as follows : "Captain Brown, with one of our vessels, has taken a Mexican vessel with 420 barrels of flour, 300 kegs of powder and other supplies for the army.

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