The Manchester record

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1869
 

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Page 116 - Majesty has commanded us to inform you, that he continues to receive from all foreign powers, the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country.
Page 5 - I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Page 33 - That the Chairman be directed to move the House, that leave be given to bring in a Bill to put an end to the Establishment of the Church in Ireland, and to make provision in respect of the Temporalities thereof, and in respect of the Royal College of Maynooth.
Page 5 - States has heretofore, in the spirit of that declaration and with the view of securing for it ultimate and complete effect, set forth several proclamations offering amnesty and pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the...
Page 5 - States, do hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who, directly or indirectly, participated in the late insurrection or rebellion a full pardon and amnesty for the offense of treason against the United States or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges, and immunities under the Constitution and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof.
Page 5 - NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America...
Page 5 - States, do hereby proclaim and declare unconditionally, and without reservation, to all and to every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges and immunities under the Constitution and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof.
Page 35 - I entertain the hope and express the desire that it may be by the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendment to the Constitution. In conclusion I ask patient forbearance one toward another throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part of every citizen to do his share toward cementing a happy union; and I ask the prayers of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of this consummation.
Page 5 - ... by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by the Constitution, and in the name of the sovereign people of the United States...
Page 62 - The amount of deaths per annum is 33,333,333, or 91,954 per day; 3,730 per hour; 60 per minute, or one per second. This loss is compensated by an equal number of births. The average duration of life throughout the globe is thirtythree years. One-fourth of its population dies before the seventh year, and one-half before the seventeenth. Out of 10,000 persons only one reaches his hundredth year ; only one in 500 his eightieth; and only one in 100 his sixty-fifth. Married people live longer than unmarried...

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