Whereas other Southern politicians had excused slavery as a necessary evil, in a famous speech on the Senate floor on February 6, 1837, Calhoun asserted that slavery was a " positive good.

Whereas these cities are dense, with major downtown populations and significant rail and transit systems, much of Southern California is famous for its large, spread-out, suburban communities and use of automobiles and highways.

Whereas the Northern lake had a religious focus, the shores of Central and Southern lakes were dotted with a number of palaces.

Whereas immigration to Northern industrial centers had resulted in Northern control of the population-based House of Representatives, Southern politicians sought to maintain the fragile balance of power in the Senate, where each state received equal representation.

Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, " has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways ," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon ; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her ; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.

On April 19, 1861, President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports: Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed therein comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States:

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.

Whereas philosophers merely had views about things, he taught the Noble Eightfold Path which liberates from suffering.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

Whereas 20, 000 freshmen had matriculated in one CUNY institution or another in 1969, more than 35, 000 showed up for registration in the fall of 1970.

Whereas his father and brother had concentrated consular power largely in the hands of the Flavian family, Domitian admitted a surprisingly large number of provincials and potential opponents to the consulship, allowing them to head the official calendar by opening the year as an ordinary consul.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

Whereas Infocom's games had benefited significantly from the portability offered by running on top of a virtual machine, this strategy did not prove to be a significant advantage for Cornerstone ; in fact, the virtual machine significantly slowed the database's execution speed.

Whereas his Gymnasium senior thesis argued that religion had as its primary social aim the promotion of solidarity, here Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting / preserving political and economic status quo and inequality.

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary " ideas " and " habits " among the alleged 5 % of bad cadres, giving them a chance to " turn over a new leaf " after they had undergone " thought reform ," the Ultra-Left argued that " cultural revolution " had to give way to " political revolution " – " in which one class overthrows another class ".

Whereas previously the OUP had thought London too far from Oxford, after 1925 Craigie worked on the dictionary in Chicago, where he was a professor.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.

Whereas engineers were used to thinking of air flowing smoothly around the body of the aircraft, at high speeds it simply did not have time to " get out of the way ", and instead started to flow as if it were rigid pipes of flow, a concept Busemann referred to as " streampipes ", as opposed to streamlines, and jokingly suggested that engineers had to consider themselves " pipefitters ".

Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 ( including the prior X. Org ) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation was led by software developers and used community development based on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement.

Whereas an expurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover had actually once been published, no expurgated version of Fanny Hill had ever been.

Whereas most Protestants do not believe in Purgatory, John's idea would be difficult to say the least had it stood the test of time.

Whereas RS / 6000 used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board — POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance.

Whereas the reign of Marcus Aurelius had been marked by almost continuous warfare, that of Commodus was comparatively peaceful in the military sense but was marked by political strife and the increasingly arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself.

Whereas previously the commons had been expected simply to assent to decisions already made by the magnates, it was now proclaimed that they should meet with the full authority ( plena potestas ) of their communities, to give assent to decisions made in Parliament.

Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in his reign, Edward I collected nine.

Whereas the king had only levied three lay subsidies until 1294, four such taxes were granted in the years 1294 – 97, raising over £ 200, 000.

Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.

Whereas tradition is supposed to be invariable, they are seen as more flexible and subject to innovation and change.

Whereas science could be revised and developed through rational thought, magic was seen as less scientific and systematic than science and religion, making it the least respected of the three.

Whereas early French hip hop was seen as mimicking American hip hop in terms of aesthetic appeal, later French rappers added their own cultural and racial identities to the mix.

Whereas the natural fool was seen as innately nit-witted, moronic, or mad, the licensed fool was given leeway by permission of the court.

Even as I fell I heard the door slam, which brought me a little comfort … that meant they were not pursuing me down the street with a stick, to beat me .”) “ into an environment where he cannot exist but cannot escape … Whereas Godot ’ s existence remains uncertain, here an external force exists ” “ represented by a sharp, inhuman, disembodied whistle ” which will not permit him to leave ; “ like Jacob, wrestles with it to illustrate its substance .” In simplistic terms the man ’ s actual fall could be seen to represent the fall of Man.

Whereas, the model made in Germany wouldn't follow the heritage of company, an so wouldn't be an ' authentic ' AC branded car, much like a Ferrari wouldn't be seen as a ' genuine ' Ferrari if it were made in China.

Whereas the first phase of shōen development in the early Heian period had seen the opening of new lands and the granting of the use of lands to aristocrats and religious institutions, the second phase saw the growth of patrimonial " house governments ," as in the old clan system.

* Whereas Wallace and Gromit live on " West Wallaby Street ", it can be seen from the various post that arrives for the household that Rex and company live at " 7, Marsupial Way, Rexford "

Whereas in the area of the present Baltic states and Kaliningrad Oblast ( former East Prussia ), it is seen as an intrusive successor to the southwestern portion of the Narva culture.

Whereas naïve art ideally describes the work of an artist who did not receive formal education in an art school or academy, for example Henri Rousseau or Alfred Wallis, ' pseudo naïve ' or ' faux naïve ' art describes the work of an artist working in a more imitative or self-conscious mode and whose work can be seen as more imitative than original.

Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh ( appearing in the form of the body it bore ) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked.

Whereas it can be said that the same enthusiasm is not seen for social welfare.

Whereas in anthropoids the mandible (= jaw ) has its greatest height at the symphysis, that is, where the two rami of the lower jaw meet, this is not the case in Sangiran 6, where the greatest height is seen at about the position of the first molar ( M1 ).

Whereas other areas within the conurbation of St Austell have seen much development during the 20th century, Charlestown has remained relatively unchanged within this expansion.

Whereas mixed-use developments take into consideration commerce and other aspects of community planning, residential developments are often seen as supplying only housing.

Whereas the Star Trek universe usually depicts an optimistic future in which the Earth-based United Federation of Planets values peace and understanding, episodes set in the Mirror Universe show the galaxy to be marred by continual warfare, with compassion seen as a liability.

Whereas many colleagues described Struve as a stern and serious person, within his family, he was seen as a cultivated man, who enjoyed music and friends and was very proud of the Struve family traditions.

Whereas his father had seen the electron as a particle ( and won his Nobel Prize in the process ), Thomson demonstrated that it could be diffracted like a wave, a discovery proving the principle of wave-particle duality which had first been posited by Louis-Victor de Broglie in the 1920s as what is often dubbed the de Broglie hypothesis.

Whereas the 1980s partial restoration had seen a blue and white colour scheme employed this has now been changed to a more original dark green.

Whereas Islam had formed the identity of Muslims within the Ottoman Empire, secularism was seen as molding the new Turkish nation and its citizens.

Whereas the usefulness can be seen as the model being helpful for the specific purpose at hand for which the model is constructed at first place.

Whereas Pius IX was seen as having isolated the Church from international opinion ( his locking of Jews into ghettos and treatment of minorities had been condemned by world leaders such as William Ewart Gladstone ), Leo was seen as an " internationalist " who could earn back the Vatican some international respect.