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... minister for for- eign affairs . 820 10. do ........... March 24 9 .do .. March 24 1861 . Acknowledgment of Mr ... Ministers for For- Aug. 1 eign Affairs . Reply in reference to postponement of the time for opening ports , and the murder ...
... minister for for- eign affairs . 820 10. do ........... March 24 9 .do .. March 24 1861 . Acknowledgment of Mr ... Ministers for For- Aug. 1 eign Affairs . Reply in reference to postponement of the time for opening ports , and the murder ...
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... minister of foreign relations in Nica- ragua , and with the minister of the United States in Costa Rica . 893 29.do. Sept. 13 Transmitting notes from the minister of foreign relations , opposing the projected colonization . 24 Mr ...
... minister of foreign relations in Nica- ragua , and with the minister of the United States in Costa Rica . 893 29.do. Sept. 13 Transmitting notes from the minister of foreign relations , opposing the projected colonization . 24 Mr ...
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... minister or consul of the United States , or , if a foreigner , from his own government , counter- signed by such minister or consul ; " also , the regulation requiring the " loyalty of all Americans applying for passports or visas to ...
... minister or consul of the United States , or , if a foreigner , from his own government , counter- signed by such minister or consul ; " also , the regulation requiring the " loyalty of all Americans applying for passports or visas to ...
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... minister of the neutral state resident in the enemy's country . The practice of nations has allowed to neutral states the privilege of receiving ministers from the belligerent states , and the use and con- venience of an immediate ...
... minister of the neutral state resident in the enemy's country . The practice of nations has allowed to neutral states the privilege of receiving ministers from the belligerent states , and the use and con- venience of an immediate ...
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... minister or agent in an Austrian prison . So in the late war between Great Britain and France on the one hand , and Russia on the other , a Russian minister going from Hamburg to Washington in an American ship might have been brought to ...
... minister or agent in an Austrian prison . So in the late war between Great Britain and France on the one hand , and Russia on the other , a Russian minister going from Hamburg to Washington in an American ship might have been brought to ...
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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.