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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... present some interesting par- ticulars . The assent of geologists to the Taconic system advocated by the late Prof. Emmons , after so many years of disbelief , is another instance of the tri- umph of investigation over preconceived ...
... present some interesting par- ticulars . The assent of geologists to the Taconic system advocated by the late Prof. Emmons , after so many years of disbelief , is another instance of the tri- umph of investigation over preconceived ...
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... present age has to solve , is the discovery of the means of producing on a given area , a larger amount of bread and meat to supply the wants of a continually in- creasing population . The object of these remarks will not be to give any ...
... present age has to solve , is the discovery of the means of producing on a given area , a larger amount of bread and meat to supply the wants of a continually in- creasing population . The object of these remarks will not be to give any ...
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... present generation will die out the last vestige of that dogged resistance to agricultural progress from which the cause has already suffered so severe- ly . An increase of one inch in the depth of ploughing , throughout the land , will ...
... present generation will die out the last vestige of that dogged resistance to agricultural progress from which the cause has already suffered so severe- ly . An increase of one inch in the depth of ploughing , throughout the land , will ...
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... present relations to her , to sue for peaceful negotiations , since the right of Alabama to send me , and my right to speak for her , have been denied . And if negotiation is to settle our difficulties touching those forts and arsenals ...
... present relations to her , to sue for peaceful negotiations , since the right of Alabama to send me , and my right to speak for her , have been denied . And if negotiation is to settle our difficulties touching those forts and arsenals ...
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... present building with that of 1851 , -the latter occupied nearly 23 acres ; that now erecting covers a little over 26. The flooring space in 1851 was just short of a million feet . In the new building there will be 1,140,000 ; but as it ...
... present building with that of 1851 , -the latter occupied nearly 23 acres ; that now erecting covers a little over 26. The flooring space in 1851 was just short of a million feet . In the new building there will be 1,140,000 ; but as it ...
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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.