The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 45

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William B. Dana
F. Hunt, 1861 - Commerce

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Page 96 - Whereas we are happily at peace with all sovereigns, powers, and states: And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America...
Page 96 - And We do hereby give Notice that all Our Subjects and Persons entitled to Our Protection who may misconduct themselves in the Premises will do so at their peril, and of their own wrong; and that they will in no wise obtain any Protection from Us against such Capture or such Penalties as aforesaid, but will, on the contrary, incur Our high Displeasure by such Misconduct.
Page 231 - President, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States or of the militia thereof...
Page 96 - ... breaking, or endeavoring to b'reak, any blockade lawfully and actually established by or on behalf of either of the said contending parties...
Page 435 - DU CHAILLU'S AFRICA. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.
Page 232 - That the forfeitures and penalties incurred by virtue of this act may be mitigated and remitted, in pursuance of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled " An act providing for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned...
Page 282 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 196 - No higher or other duties or charges on account of tonnage, light, or harbour, dues, pilotage, salvage in case of damage...
Page 96 - ... persons whatsoever do commit any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute imposed, and of our high displeasure. And we do hereby further warn all our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if...
Page 535 - The whole interior of the Southern States was languishing and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment.

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