Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1864 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... President and Vice - President of the United States , upon the principles referred to in the foregoing preamble . On the 10th , the ordinance of secession was reported , and on the 11th , it was adopted in secret session by a vote of ...
... President and Vice - President of the United States , upon the principles referred to in the foregoing preamble . On the 10th , the ordinance of secession was reported , and on the 11th , it was adopted in secret session by a vote of ...
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... President made an address , expressing the most decided views upon the permanency of the secession of the State . He said : “ We are free , and shall any of us cherish any idea of a reconstruction of the old Government , whereby Alabama ...
... President made an address , expressing the most decided views upon the permanency of the secession of the State . He said : “ We are free , and shall any of us cherish any idea of a reconstruction of the old Government , whereby Alabama ...
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... President street depot . Mayor Brown hastened to the President street depot , and endeavored to prevent any disturbance . At this point there still remained upwards of twenty cars filled with the troops , and five or six cars which had ...
... President street depot . Mayor Brown hastened to the President street depot , and endeavored to prevent any disturbance . At this point there still remained upwards of twenty cars filled with the troops , and five or six cars which had ...
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... President to institute the blockade was denied , and it was insisted that this power , under the Constitution of the United States , could only be exercised by the National Legislature . The views of the Cir- cuit Court at Washington ...
... President to institute the blockade was denied , and it was insisted that this power , under the Constitution of the United States , could only be exercised by the National Legislature . The views of the Cir- cuit Court at Washington ...
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... President Davis and Secretary Walker , at the Exchange Hotel , to- night . " The former is not well , and did not ap- pear . Secretary Walker appeared and declined to make a speech , but in a few words of elec- trical eloquence told the ...
... President Davis and Secretary Walker , at the Exchange Hotel , to- night . " The former is not well , and did not ap- pear . Secretary Walker appeared and declined to make a speech , but in a few words of elec- trical eloquence told the ...
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Page 72 - 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 123 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are, virtually, dissolved; that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it .will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare, definitely, for a separation; amicably, if they can; violently if they must.
Page 395 - ... 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 180 - 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 404 - I cannot but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...
Page 180 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance...
Page 198 - I rise, Mr. President, for the purpose of announcing to the Senate that I have satisfactory evidence that the State of Mississippi, by a solemn ordinance of her people, in convention assembled, has declared her separation from the United States. Under these circumstances, of course, my functions are terminated here. It has seemed to me proper, however, that I should appear in the Senate to announce that fact to my associates, and I will say but very little more.
Page 410 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved on that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Page 131 - African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the 'rock upon which the old union would split.
Page 403 - We mean to treat you as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to interfere with your institutions ; to abide by all and every compromise of the Constitution.