A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain During the American Civil War |
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... received the Constitution as a federative compact among the States , and the other not as such a compact , but as in the main national and popular . " Six or seven times at least , on distinct occasions , between 1797 and 1840 , it had ...
... received the Constitution as a federative compact among the States , and the other not as such a compact , but as in the main national and popular . " Six or seven times at least , on distinct occasions , between 1797 and 1840 , it had ...
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... receiving and communicating ideas ; and they lived in a country fenced round by no natural barriers , and in more or less close neighbourhood to a population who , without much sympathy for the slave himself , detested slavery , and ...
... receiving and communicating ideas ; and they lived in a country fenced round by no natural barriers , and in more or less close neighbourhood to a population who , without much sympathy for the slave himself , detested slavery , and ...
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... received a formal answer , which was , as might be expected , a civil but peremp- tory refusal . This delay has never been fully explained : by some it has been ascribed to the officious interference of one of the Judges of the Supreme ...
... received a formal answer , which was , as might be expected , a civil but peremp- tory refusal . This delay has never been fully explained : by some it has been ascribed to the officious interference of one of the Judges of the Supreme ...
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... received on the 10th June , in attempting to penetrate inland , a sharp check from a Confederate force under Magruder . At length , on the 16th July , McDowell began to move . Advancing southwards , with an army which may be reckoned at ...
... received on the 10th June , in attempting to penetrate inland , a sharp check from a Confederate force under Magruder . At length , on the 16th July , McDowell began to move . Advancing southwards , with an army which may be reckoned at ...
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... received as authoritative in a tribunal administering public and international law . " On this first question therefore we are of the opinion that the President had a right , jure belli , to institute a blockade of ports in possession ...
... received as authoritative in a tribunal administering public and international law . " On this first question therefore we are of the opinion that the President had a right , jure belli , to institute a blockade of ports in possession ...
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Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority.
Page 2 - That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government, but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 71 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth, will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...
Page 24 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 262 - ... in either of which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours...
Page 17 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 37 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 43 - The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres. The former in its appropriate sphere is supreme; but the States within the limits of their powers not granted, or, in the language of the Tenth Amendment, "reserved," are as independent of the general government as that government within its sphere is independent of the States.
Page 61 - 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 66 - 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.