Advocate of Peace and Universal BrotherhoodAmerican Peace Society, 1863 - Arbitration (International law) |
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Page 198
... success of your rebellion , by doing for you all we safely can . The concession of belligerent rights is all we can grant at the start ; and this will authorize you to commit all the deeds of war with impunity . It gives you license to ...
... success of your rebellion , by doing for you all we safely can . The concession of belligerent rights is all we can grant at the start ; and this will authorize you to commit all the deeds of war with impunity . It gives you license to ...
Page 199
... success in permanently crippling , if not overthrowing , a government to which we have so long been bound by the strongest obligations of duty and interest . ' All this did England say in effect to our rebels by conceding to them ...
... success in permanently crippling , if not overthrowing , a government to which we have so long been bound by the strongest obligations of duty and interest . ' All this did England say in effect to our rebels by conceding to them ...
Page 204
... success of their wholesale , gigantic villanies , by erecting what they call a government , under whose forms of law they may kill , and rob , and pillage , and burn , on land and sea , without re- sponsibility to men or God for such ...
... success of their wholesale , gigantic villanies , by erecting what they call a government , under whose forms of law they may kill , and rob , and pillage , and burn , on land and sea , without re- sponsibility to men or God for such ...
Page 205
... success of a conspiracy to commit wickedness , prove its innocence ? On this principle , can there be se- curity for any government in the world ? Would any nation allow the application of such logic to its own case ? ' But our own ...
... success of a conspiracy to commit wickedness , prove its innocence ? On this principle , can there be se- curity for any government in the world ? Would any nation allow the application of such logic to its own case ? ' But our own ...
Page 207
... success in dismembering our Republic , and conceded to them belligerent rights just to facilitate and insure the ac- complishment of their object . We can find no other explanation of their conduct ; and the indecent haste with which ...
... success in dismembering our Republic , and conceded to them belligerent rights just to facilitate and insure the ac- complishment of their object . We can find no other explanation of their conduct ; and the indecent haste with which ...
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Page 212 - 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 212 - They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
Page 36 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 215 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? 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.
Page 304 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 292 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.