 I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty of this government to detain them. But the effectual check and waning proportions of the existing insurrection, as well...  The Life of William H. Seward - Page 238by Frederic Bancroft - 1900Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1884 - 652 pages
...coming to my conclusion I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...dispassionately weighed, happily forbid me from resorting to this defence. Nor am I unaware that American citizens are not in any case to be unnecessarily surrendered... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...to my conclusion, I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty of this government to detain them.* * In the debate from which we have made several extracts, Tx>rd Palmcrston referred to this passage... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Great Britain - 1861 - 15 pages
...coming to my conclusion I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...happily forbid me from resorting to that defence. Nor am I unaware that American citizens are not in any case to be unnecesarily surrendered for any purpose... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Trent Affair, 1861 - 1861 - 20 pages
...coming to my conclusion I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...happily forbid me from resorting to that defence. Nor am I unaware that American citizens are not in any case to be unnecesarily surrendered for any purpose... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...to my conclusions I have not forgotten that if the safety of this Union reqnired th'i detention of the captured persons it would be the right and duty...proportions of the existing insurrection, as well as the comparatured persons themselves, Mr. Sfcward's Reply lo the Demand, when dispassionately weighed, happily... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 984 pages
...Seward's despatch. Mr. Seward asserts that " if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons it would be the right and duty of this government to detain them." He proceeds to say that the waning proportions of the insurrection, and the comparative unimportance... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1862 - 918 pages
...coming to my conclusion I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...happily forbid me from resorting to that defence. Nor am I unaware that American citizens are not in any case to be unnecesarily surrendered for any purpose... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...have not forgotten," said the Secretary, "that if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...captured persons themselves, when dispassionately weigh• 'li ii II..: like that which is now before us. Those cases occurred when Great Britain, as... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1862 - 624 pages
...of the Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty of the government to detain them ; but the effectual check...comparative unimportance of the captured persons themselves, happily forbid a resort to that defence. Earl Russell replies to this, that the neglect to send in... | |
 | History, Modern - 1862 - 392 pages
...conüng to my conclusion I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty...to detain them. But the effectual check and waning proportious of the existing insurrecton, as well as the eomparative unimportance of the captured persons... | |
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