The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... existing interests , by the opportunity offered to existing institu- tions to reorganize under the act , substituting only the secured uni- form national circulation for the local and various circulation , secured and unsecured , now ...
... existing interests , by the opportunity offered to existing institu- tions to reorganize under the act , substituting only the secured uni- form national circulation for the local and various circulation , secured and unsecured , now ...
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... existing relations between the countries than I had ventured to hope . This is partly to be ascribed to the course taken by the ministry , which I fully believe is taken in good faith , and somewhat to the current of intelligence from ...
... existing relations between the countries than I had ventured to hope . This is partly to be ascribed to the course taken by the ministry , which I fully believe is taken in good faith , and somewhat to the current of intelligence from ...
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... existing bounds , instead of suffering it to be spread over the whole unoccupied portion of this vast continent ? Is it not favoring emancipation in the federal District , to be accomplished at the government cost , and without ...
... existing bounds , instead of suffering it to be spread over the whole unoccupied portion of this vast continent ? Is it not favoring emancipation in the federal District , to be accomplished at the government cost , and without ...
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... existing indications of an early termination of the struggle continue to multiply , there will be little occasion for further remonstrance of any kind here ; for the disposition to help a party once that it is felt to be certainly ...
... existing indications of an early termination of the struggle continue to multiply , there will be little occasion for further remonstrance of any kind here ; for the disposition to help a party once that it is felt to be certainly ...
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... existing municipal laws are found to be insufficient , and do not furnish means of prevention adequate to the emergency . The duty of nations in amity with each other would seem to be plain , not to suffer their good faith to be ...
... existing municipal laws are found to be insufficient , and do not furnish means of prevention adequate to the emergency . The duty of nations in amity with each other would seem to be plain , not to suffer their good faith to be ...
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Page 551 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
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 132 - States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists ; and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 196 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 300 - ... 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 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 197 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Page 12 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave-trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.
Page 13 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.