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Excerpt from Human Rights of King Andy: Or the Apostate President The Reader may be desirous to know what suggested the present essay to the mind of the writer; and to satisfy those who may be so curious, I propose to give a short statement of the causes that led to its production. In the latter part of 1864, I joined the National Union Lyceum. It then met at 481 Ninth street west, but soon afterwards obtained the Aldermen's Chamber, City Hall, where it continued to meet until its dissolution (on account of political rancor) in the summer of 1866. A majority of its members were more inclined to be radical than otherwise; but there were a small minority who were poisonously secesh, and yet pretended to be Union men. They were Andy Johnson men to the core. It is now a matter of history that in April, 1864, it was proposed in the Senate of the United States to so amend the Constitution as to abolish slavery throughout the Union. It passed both Houses in the month of January, 1865, and was approved by that great good man, Abraham Lincoln, on February 1st, 1865, just seventy-three days before his death, which occurred on the morning of April the 15th, 1865, from the effects of a wound inflicted by a pistol ball fired the night previous by the unparalleled assassin John Wilkes Booth. Immediately after its approval the amendment was sent out to the several States of the Union for the approval of their several legislatures; it was, therefore, for some time the great topic of the day, and was discussed by every newspaper and lyceum in the country. And in the Union Lyceum the following question was proposed, (as nearly as I can recollect without a record,) viz : "Resolved, That the several States ought not to ratify the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery, proposed by Congress and approved by the late Abraham Lincoln." I think the above question was discussed about the first week in February of 1866, a short time before the famous 22d of February debut by "King Andy." I had the closing argument in the negative, "and said that the amendment ought not only to be ratified by the States, but that Congress had the right by the war power to abolish slavery wherever it existed, and to force every foot of the territory lately in rebellion to give the right of suffrage to the colored man, and thereby force them to form republican governments; but a right to force every State in the Union to guarantee a republican form of government. That is, force every State in the Union, or that may come in, to give the suffrage to every loval and moral man and woman, without distinction of race or color." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Pełny tytuł: Human Rights of King Andy
• Podtytuł: Or the Apostate President (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: William Boyd
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 76
• EAN: 9781331360032
• ISBN: 9781331360032
• ID: 09744311
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 113 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 4 mm
• Data wydania: 14. July 2015

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