The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ..., Volume 4; Volume 1864D. Appleton & Company, 1869 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Persons between seventeen and eighteen five and fifty ) as may be needed for the discharge of years of age shall not be assigned to such duties . The President is empowered to detail artisans , me- chanics , or persons of scientific ...
... Persons between seventeen and eighteen five and fifty ) as may be needed for the discharge of years of age shall not be assigned to such duties . The President is empowered to detail artisans , me- chanics , or persons of scientific ...
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... persons as he may be satisfied ought to be exempted on account of published at Richmond , Dec. , 1864 : lic ... persons as aforesaid at equivalent rates . Such person shall furthermore bind himself to sell the marketable surplus of ...
... persons as he may be satisfied ought to be exempted on account of published at Richmond , Dec. , 1864 : lic ... persons as aforesaid at equivalent rates . Such person shall furthermore bind himself to sell the marketable surplus of ...
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... persons who have entered the naval service dur- ing the present rebellion , and by credits for men furnished to the military service in excess of calls heretofore made . Volunteers will be accepted under this call for one , two , or ...
... persons who have entered the naval service dur- ing the present rebellion , and by credits for men furnished to the military service in excess of calls heretofore made . Volunteers will be accepted under this call for one , two , or ...
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... persons not fit for mili- tary duty , and not liable to draft , from age or other causes , who desired to be personally rep- resented in the army . The Provost Marshal General issued a circular to further this laud- able project , and ...
... persons not fit for mili- tary duty , and not liable to draft , from age or other causes , who desired to be personally rep- resented in the army . The Provost Marshal General issued a circular to further this laud- able project , and ...
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... persons were found within the United States , exactly the same in- ducements to military service were open to them which , by authority of law , were offered at the same time to citizens of the United States . * * * * # # * It is a ...
... persons were found within the United States , exactly the same in- ducements to military service were open to them which , by authority of law , were offered at the same time to citizens of the United States . * * * * # # * It is a ...
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Page 312 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
Page 332 - 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 255 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Page 334 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 449 - I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law.
Page 284 - ... has become law, would be violated, that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance, their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved, but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 332 - ... 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; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 389 - ... now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 134 - The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners, guarding railroad bridges, and forming a good part of their garrisons for entrenched positions. A man lost by them cannot be replaced. They have robbed the cradle and the grave equally to get their present force.
Page 319 - An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes...