The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year1864 |
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... foreign powers , and of the United States to prevent it , are summarily presented in the letters and instructions of the respective diplo- matic agents . In thus preparing in a narrative form this portion of the events of the year ...
... foreign powers , and of the United States to prevent it , are summarily presented in the letters and instructions of the respective diplo- matic agents . In thus preparing in a narrative form this portion of the events of the year ...
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... foreign one . fore Christ , 2397. Even this , if it could be The language that had been the vernacular of relied on , would only carry us back to the time the Jews for three thousand years had ceased when the Chinese , a people placed ...
... foreign one . fore Christ , 2397. Even this , if it could be The language that had been the vernacular of relied on , would only carry us back to the time the Jews for three thousand years had ceased when the Chinese , a people placed ...
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... foreign arms import- ed the best are the Enfield rifles , made at the Government armory at Enfield , England , upon the same system as the American rifle , and with machinery , the models of which were ob- tained from the Springfield ...
... foreign arms import- ed the best are the Enfield rifles , made at the Government armory at Enfield , England , upon the same system as the American rifle , and with machinery , the models of which were ob- tained from the Springfield ...
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... foreign war near the close of the year , together with the urgent necessities of the country , rendered it the part of prudence for the Government to adopt ex- traordinary measures for receiving supplies of arms . Every year the waste ...
... foreign war near the close of the year , together with the urgent necessities of the country , rendered it the part of prudence for the Government to adopt ex- traordinary measures for receiving supplies of arms . Every year the waste ...
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... foreign armies with that of the volunteers , because it is uncertain what degree of sickness in them places a man upon the sick list . Our volunteer surgeons are , undoubtedly , very ac- commodating in this respect , probably more so ...
... foreign armies with that of the volunteers , because it is uncertain what degree of sickness in them places a man upon the sick list . Our volunteer surgeons are , undoubtedly , very ac- commodating in this respect , probably more so ...
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Page 70 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 216 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 239 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page 186 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 129 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 176 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 414 - I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Page 216 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 176 - Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Page 239 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the southern States, now in revolt against the constitutional Government, and in arms around the capital ; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on...