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Stevens Vetoes overridden The Question submitted to the People Their Verdict Summary of Vetoes Impeachment Charges by Mr. Ashley Report of the Committee. The Thirty-ninth Congress is remarkable for having run its entire career with the constant opposition of the Executive obstructing its progress.
In some of those States in which the colored people have been unable to make their opinions felt in the elections the result is mainly due to influences not easily measured or remedied by legal protection; but in the States of Louisiana and South Carolina at large, and in some particular Congressional districts outside of those States, the records of the elections seem to compel the conclusion that the rights of the colored voters have been overridden and their participation in the elections not permitted to be either general or free.
Still it was possible, and the bare possibility doubled my reluctance to break the seal. For one minute longer I stood in doubt, and then honor and candor and truth prevailed. If any other life had been in peril but my own, duty to another might have overridden all. But duty to one's self, if overpushed in such a case, would hold some taint of cowardice.
One hatched out in a song-sparrow's nest which was under my observation, and would soon have overridden and overborne the young sparrow, which came out of the shell a few hours later, had I not interfered from time to time and lent the young sparrow a helping hand.
And if you suffer inconvenience on the way or pain or humiliation or anger why that is what you have made me suffer." "You! You have treated me with scorn, with contempt, like a little child, as though I did not exist! You have what-you-call ridden over overridden what I propose, what I try to do. You and your lordly way! You are not a man you are a fish of cold blood; a statue of iron!
The city would not indeed allow even an apprentice to be overridden, and although Geoffrey Ward's forge stood beyond the city walls it was yet within the liberties, the city allowing its craftsmen to open shops just outside the gates, and to enjoy the same privileges as if dwelling actually within the walls.
It sounded almost as though he were expected to acquiesce in the outrageous proposition that members of his family occasionally allowed moral to be overridden by practical considerations. He could not conceive of himself admitting the possibility of such a thing even in the secret recesses of his soul. It was most uncomfortable to listen to his own father going on like this.
Meanwhile she had been tempted into beginning a story for "The Independent," which proved to be "The Pearl of Orr's Island," a story good enough, if she had been left to herself and not overridden by greedy editors and publishers, to have added a lustre even to her name. It is to this she refers in the following letter when she speaks of her "Maine story."
"I don't know anything about such things, but I should think that the general was clearly in the right. He could hardly afford to let the army be overridden." "Quite so," said the captain. "I don't suppose you know these people," he added. "Not one of them, except my friend, Mr. Cleary. We only arrived to-day." "The general is a good deal of a fellow," said the captain.
Seemingly insuperable obstacles, most of them placed in the way through the native stupidity and perversity of German and English officialdom, had to be overridden, and Wagner triumphed.
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