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... practical conduct of that blockade , which I was satisfied had not been pressed upon the attention of European Governments ; which made what lawyers call " a case " for the Grey- hound , and which might possibly result , through the ...
... practical conduct of that blockade , which I was satisfied had not been pressed upon the attention of European Governments ; which made what lawyers call " a case " for the Grey- hound , and which might possibly result , through the ...
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... practical estimation of things at their right value . The Confederates are a people of habitual sobriety of senti- ment , readily excited on due occasion , but much more so by the inspiration of ab- stract principles than by the names ...
... practical estimation of things at their right value . The Confederates are a people of habitual sobriety of senti- ment , readily excited on due occasion , but much more so by the inspiration of ab- stract principles than by the names ...
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... practical execution , for he really has an amiable and generous sentiment for everything but the Yankee . Captain Black reads the newspaper aloud every night , and Marrs punctuates with sen- tentious exclamations . Then we have the ...
... practical execution , for he really has an amiable and generous sentiment for everything but the Yankee . Captain Black reads the newspaper aloud every night , and Marrs punctuates with sen- tentious exclamations . Then we have the ...
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... practical style , and our fingers and feet , as well as our heads and hearts , are at your service . " Such testimonies of sympathy illuminate the prison , and make us think more kindly of the world outside . God knows how my life in ...
... practical style , and our fingers and feet , as well as our heads and hearts , are at your service . " Such testimonies of sympathy illuminate the prison , and make us think more kindly of the world outside . God knows how my life in ...
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... practical instruction afforded me in an interval of parole , in which I had free access to all quarters and classes of public opinion in the North , has brought my mind to certain distinct and firm conclusions , which , in certain ...
... practical instruction afforded me in an interval of parole , in which I had free access to all quarters and classes of public opinion in the North , has brought my mind to certain distinct and firm conclusions , which , in certain ...
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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.