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... observe was not derived from any state- ment of mine , or any implication of my correspondence . But I cannot see the force of the distinction . If I had been an Englishman , it seems I would have been entitled to my release : why ? -by ...
... observe was not derived from any state- ment of mine , or any implication of my correspondence . But I cannot see the force of the distinction . If I had been an Englishman , it seems I would have been entitled to my release : why ? -by ...
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... find some amusement , at occasional hours , in walking through Washington street , and observing crowds of enthused Yankees , including strap- ping women , with strong minds and constitutional " yearnings OBSERVATIONS IN THE NORTH . 27.
... find some amusement , at occasional hours , in walking through Washington street , and observing crowds of enthused Yankees , including strap- ping women , with strong minds and constitutional " yearnings OBSERVATIONS IN THE NORTH . 27.
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... observation , when I declare that I found many of the prisoners of the Libby living better in point of creature comforts , than some of our cabinet ministers in Richmond . Yet these men invariably go back to the North with stories of ...
... observation , when I declare that I found many of the prisoners of the Libby living better in point of creature comforts , than some of our cabinet ministers in Richmond . Yet these men invariably go back to the North with stories of ...
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... observe what that ' in- dependence ' would mean . It would mean our abdication of the position of the American nation . Let but the Southern Confederacy be acknowledged by us , and it would succeed immediately to the place formerly held ...
... observe what that ' in- dependence ' would mean . It would mean our abdication of the position of the American nation . Let but the Southern Confederacy be acknowledged by us , and it would succeed immediately to the place formerly held ...
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... observation of the politics and society of the North , of introduction to many of their public men , and of a rare and extraor dinary insight into the public spirit and real designs of the North with refer- ence to the war . In these ...
... observation of the politics and society of the North , of introduction to many of their public men , and of a rare and extraor dinary insight into the public spirit and real designs of the North with refer- ence to the war . In these ...
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Page 94 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 95 - Such a proposition on the part of the General Government sets up no claim of a right by Federal authority to interfere with slavery within State limits, referring, as it does, the absolute control of the subject in each case to the State and its people immediately interested. It is proposed as a matter of perfectly free choice with them. In the annual message last December I thought fit to say, "the Union must be preserved ; and hence all indispensable means must be employed.
Page 94 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 95 - 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; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 134 - Slaves as these unfortunate black people are, and dull as all men are from slavery, must they not a little suspect the offer of freedom from that very nation which has sold them to their present masters...
Page 24 - ... it would flow. Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice, it is peculiarly indefensible; because it deprives the dearest rights of persons, of a regular trial, to which the most inconsiderable article of property captured on the high seas, is entitled; and leaves their destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested by his want of mariners, in his own decisions. Whenever property found in a neutral vessel is supposed to be liable on...
Page 94 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Page 94 - Their constitutions and laws and customs, habits and institutions in either case will remain the same. It is hardly necessary to add to this incontestable statement the further fact that the new President, as well as the citizens through whose suffrages he has come into the administration, has always repudiated all designs whatever, and wherever imputed to him and them, of disturbing the system of slavery as it 'is existing under the Constitution and laws. The case, however, would not be fully presented...
Page 86 - Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion : but rid me, and deliver me, in thy righteousness; incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 2 Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort : thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.
Page 24 - Whenever a belligerent claim against persons on board a neutral vessel is referred to in treaties, enemies \n military service alone are excepted from the general immunity of persons in that situation. And this exception confirms the immunity of those who are not included in it.