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Excerpt from The Legal-Tender Acts, Considered in Relation to Their Constitutionality and Their Political Economy The question is not whether it was necessary to resort to the issue of Treasury notes in such form as to make them convenient for circulation among the people, but whether it was wise to annex the legal-tender quality to the notes. This question is considered and answered in the negative. The object of the thirteenth and last art...

Excerpt from Our Country and Its Cause: A Discourse, Preached October 2d, 1864, in the South Presbyterian Church, of Brooklyn Nor again, will any enlightened and candid man deny, that the Government of these United States is the supreme civil authority in this land, acting directly upon all the people in all the States and throughout all the Territories. It is a Government and not a treaty or league between independent nations. The Constituti...

Excerpt from The Duty of the HourHaving nobly done his work, alike as the soldier and the statesman, Washington has been sleeping in his grave for more than half a century.The country to whose good he devoted his life, has advanced in all the elements of national greatness. The Constitution and the Government which he helped to frame, have until recently been the watchwords, the glory and pride of all the people. The Union has proved its wisdo...

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Excerpt from Religion and the State: Or the Bible and the Public SchoolsThe object of this volume is to answer these questions. As to the correctness of the conclu sion, and the pertinency and power of the argu ment to sustain it, the reader can fairly judge only by perusing the entire series of essays. If he will turn to the last number, entitled The Conclusion, he will find a summary of the whole discussion, and be the better able to judge o...

Excerpt from The Punishment of Treason: A Discourse Preached April 23d, 1865, in the South Presbyterian Church of BrooklynWhich God p1oceeds in dealing out the awards of his government to moral beings. In that Book he 18 declared to be the just God visiting transgression With its merited penalty. In that Book promises of divine protection and favor are made to the good, and the most dre evils threatened against the: Wicked. In that Book you ha...

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