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... letter from the President of the United States to the Tycoon of Japan . Recovery and return of the sword stolen from Japanese envoys during their stay at Baltimore in 1860 . The attack on the British legation , and the measures adopted ...
... letter from the President of the United States to the Tycoon of Japan . Recovery and return of the sword stolen from Japanese envoys during their stay at Baltimore in 1860 . The attack on the British legation , and the measures adopted ...
Page xliii
... letter I have sent to Lord Lyons , together with a copy of a letter that , amid the intensest heat of the late excitement , I had occasion to address to his excellency the governor of the State of Maine . This correspondence may perhaps ...
... letter I have sent to Lord Lyons , together with a copy of a letter that , amid the intensest heat of the late excitement , I had occasion to address to his excellency the governor of the State of Maine . This correspondence may perhaps ...
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... letter addressed to me by the consul of the United States at Liverpool , going to show the preparation at that port of an armed steamer evidently intended for hostile operations on the ocean . From the evidence furnished in the names of ...
... letter addressed to me by the consul of the United States at Liverpool , going to show the preparation at that port of an armed steamer evidently intended for hostile operations on the ocean . From the evidence furnished in the names of ...
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... letter of the 19th instant , on the subject of the steamer Oreto , which was believed from reports you had received to be fitting out at Liverpool with a view to acting hostilely against the people of the United States , I have the ...
... letter of the 19th instant , on the subject of the steamer Oreto , which was believed from reports you had received to be fitting out at Liverpool with a view to acting hostilely against the people of the United States , I have the ...
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... letter from Mr. Dudley , the consul at Liverpool , containing additional information to the same effect , supplied me with a new occasion to write to his lordship in the spirit of your despatch No. 196 , of the 27th of February . A copy ...
... letter from Mr. Dudley , the consul at Liverpool , containing additional information to the same effect , supplied me with a new occasion to write to his lordship in the spirit of your despatch No. 196 , of the 27th of February . A copy ...
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Page 13 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Page 23 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 196 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 15 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution...
Page 300 - ... respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
Page 196 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page 13 - ... lines, over which people may walk back and forth without any consciousness of their presence. No part of this line can be made any more difficult to pass, by writing it down on paper, or parchment, as a national boundary. The fact of separation, if it comes, gives up, on the part of the seceding section, the...
Page 23 - The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
Page 89 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 197 - ... against the laws, unless the person Claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful...