While just confidence is felt in the judiciary of the States, yet this Government ought to be competent in itself for the fulfillment of the high duties which have been devolved upon it under the organic law by the States themselves.
With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
The Thirty-ninth Congress assembled, realizing that it devolved upon them to define the extent of the rights, privileges, and duties of the freedmen.
As provided in the amendment itself, it devolved upon Congress "to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
It devolved upon Mr. Trumbull, the author of the bill, to answer the objections of the President.
The slow moving hours passed on, and he resolutely performed the last duties that devolved upon him.
Almost every day witnessed some incident of importance to the national cause, and my time was fully occupied with the numerous and responsible duties which necessarily devolved upon me.
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington.
In consequence of his office, it devolved upon him to give out two subjects for Latin dissertations, one to the middle bachelors, and the other to the senior bachelors of arts.
While these things were going on, it devolved upon me to arrange all the evidence on the part of the abolition under proper heads, and to abridge it into one volume.
In this situation it devolved upon me, as I had now returned to the committee after an absence of nine years, to take another journey for this purpose.
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