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... September , 1863 , be made ef- fectual and be duly enforced in and throughout the said State of Kentucky , and that martial law be for the present established therein . I do , therefore , hereby require of the military officers in the ...
... September , 1863 , be made ef- fectual and be duly enforced in and throughout the said State of Kentucky , and that martial law be for the present established therein . I do , therefore , hereby require of the military officers in the ...
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... September , 1850 , entitled " An act to create ad- ditional collection districts in the State of Cal- ifornia , and to change the existing districts therein , and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States ...
... September , 1850 , entitled " An act to create ad- ditional collection districts in the State of Cal- ifornia , and to change the existing districts therein , and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States ...
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Abraham Lincoln. LETTER TO COLONEL H. C. HUIDEKOPER EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , D. C. , September 1 , 1864 . Sir : It is represented to me that there are at Rock Island , Illinois , as rebel prisoners of war , many persons of ...
Abraham Lincoln. LETTER TO COLONEL H. C. HUIDEKOPER EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , D. C. , September 1 , 1864 . Sir : It is represented to me that there are at Rock Island , Illinois , as rebel prisoners of war , many persons of ...
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... September 3 , 1864 . Hon . M. Blair , Portsmouth , N. H .: Please come at once . will be here . Don't delay . Answer when you A. LINCOLN . PROCLAMATION OF THANKSGIVING EXECUTIVE MANSION , September 3 , 1864 . The signal success that ...
... September 3 , 1864 . Hon . M. Blair , Portsmouth , N. H .: Please come at once . will be here . Don't delay . Answer when you A. LINCOLN . PROCLAMATION OF THANKSGIVING EXECUTIVE MANSION , September 3 , 1864 . The signal success that ...
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... September 3 , 1864 . The national thanks are tendered by the President to Admiral Farragut and Major- General Canby for the skill and harmony with which the recent operations in Mobile Harbor , and against Fort Powell , Fort Gaines ...
... September 3 , 1864 . The national thanks are tendered by the President to Admiral Farragut and Major- General Canby for the skill and harmony with which the recent operations in Mobile Harbor , and against Fort Powell , Fort Gaines ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN April army August B. F. BUTLER EXECUTIVE Baltimore Blair Burbridge BUTLER EXECUTIVE MANSION City Point Colonel command Constitution convention dear Sir December DEPARTMENT despatch E. R. S. CANBY election enemy February February 29 force Fort Monroe Fort Powell give Governor Johnson GRANT EXECUTIVE MANSION hereby honor HORACE GREELEY House of Representatives INDORSEMENT January July June labor LETTER TO SECRETARY LEW WALLACE liberty Lieutenant-General Grant loyal Major-General Butler March March 12 ment military Monroe Nashville naval November October officers peace persons ports present President proclamation rebel rebellion received retary Rosecrans Secretary of War SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE Senate September SEWARD Sherman slavery soldiers STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR Tenn thanks thereof tion to-day Treasury truly U. S. GRANT EXECUTIVE Union United vote W. S. ROSECRANS W. T. SHERMAN WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON wish yesterday
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Page 52 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page v - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 144 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 194 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page xxv - You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace. Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please...
Page 272 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 204 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page xxviii - The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame : Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ! Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came...
Page 275 - Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and...
Page 279 - On Thursday, of last week, two ladies from Tennessee, came before the President, asking the release of their husbands, held as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island. They were put off until Friday, when they came again, and were again put off until Saturday. At each of the interviews, one of the ladies urged that her husband was a religious man. On Saturday, when the President ordered the release of the prisoners...