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... convicts , with very few exceptions . Many of them are doing valiant service in the ranks of the country's defenders , some have died in battle , and others are supporting them- selves by honest labor . A supplement to this message will ...
... convicts , with very few exceptions . Many of them are doing valiant service in the ranks of the country's defenders , some have died in battle , and others are supporting them- selves by honest labor . A supplement to this message will ...
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... convict and sentence without restraint . Under the present law , boys are sentenced to the School who are of the age of seven years and upwards , and for the smallest offences . Can it be wise to allow justices of the peace to sentence ...
... convict and sentence without restraint . Under the present law , boys are sentenced to the School who are of the age of seven years and upwards , and for the smallest offences . Can it be wise to allow justices of the peace to sentence ...
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... convict , and deserves a pardon ; and the Judge who tried him says he thinks it would be well to remit the remain- der of his sentence . He has now served seven years , and I think it is sufficient . Pardoned October 3 , 1863 . Charles ...
... convict , and deserves a pardon ; and the Judge who tried him says he thinks it would be well to remit the remain- der of his sentence . He has now served seven years , and I think it is sufficient . Pardoned October 3 , 1863 . Charles ...
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... convict his son . Under the circumstances the sentence was very severe . He has served near eight years , and Mr. Lewis says it is enough . So says the Prosecuting Attorney who tried him , and so I think . Pardoned Dec. 12 , 1864 ...
... convict his son . Under the circumstances the sentence was very severe . He has served near eight years , and Mr. Lewis says it is enough . So says the Prosecuting Attorney who tried him , and so I think . Pardoned Dec. 12 , 1864 ...
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... convicts on the 30th day of November , 1864 , was 292 , showing a decrease in two years of 118. This con- tinued reduction in the number of inmates in that Institutioon is undoubtedly owing to the fact that the repletion of our 24 ...
... convicts on the 30th day of November , 1864 , was 292 , showing a decrease in two years of 118. This con- tinued reduction in the number of inmates in that Institutioon is undoubtedly owing to the fact that the repletion of our 24 ...
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Page 20 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 20 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 95 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 20 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 90 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 3 - Legislature for all public moneys received and paid out by him from any funds subject to his order, with vouchers; and shall accompany his message with a statement of the same.
Page 91 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 2 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 92 - The diffusion of these silent teachers, books, through the whole community, is to work greater effects than artillery, machinery, and legislation. Its peaceful agency is to supersede stormy revolutions. The culture, which it is to spread, whilst an unspeakable good to the individual, is also to become the stability of nations.
Page 163 - The formation of the *' society for the promotion of collegiate and theological education in the west...