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... believed possible to keep the government on foot . On the 5th of March , ( the present incumbent's first full day in office , ) a letter of Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at ...
... believed possible to keep the government on foot . On the 5th of March , ( the present incumbent's first full day in office , ) a letter of Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at ...
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... believed possible to keep the government on foot . On the 5th of March , ( the present incumbent's first full day in office , ) a letter of Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at ...
... believed possible to keep the government on foot . On the 5th of March , ( the present incumbent's first full day in office , ) a letter of Major Anderson , commanding at Fort Sumter , written on the 28th of February , and received at ...
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... believed , however , that to so abandon that position , under the circumstances , would be utterly ruinous ; that the necessity under which it was to be done would not be fully understood ; that by many , it would be construed as a part ...
... believed , however , that to so abandon that position , under the circumstances , would be utterly ruinous ; that the necessity under which it was to be done would not be fully understood ; that by many , it would be construed as a part ...
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... for closing the ports of the insurrectionary districts by proceedings in the nature of blockade . So far all was believed to be strictly legal . At this point the insurrectionists announced their purpose to enter 8 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE .
... for closing the ports of the insurrectionary districts by proceedings in the nature of blockade . So far all was believed to be strictly legal . At this point the insurrectionists announced their purpose to enter 8 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE .
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... believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress . Soon after the first call for ... believed that disre- garding the single law , would tend to preserve it ? But it was not believed that this question ...
... believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress . Soon after the first call for ... believed that disre- garding the single law , would tend to preserve it ? But it was not believed that this question ...
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Page 14 - The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution.
Page 17 - I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored with the offices have resigned and proved false to the hand which had pampered them, not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag.
Page 10 - The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders ; and this government has no choice left but to deal with it where it finds it. And it has the less regret, as the loyal citizens have, in due form, claimed its protection. Those loyal citizens this government is bound to recognize, and protect, as being Virginia. In the border States, so called — in fact, the middle States — there are those who favor a policy which they call "armed neutrality...
Page 6 - Simultaneously, and in connexion with all this. the purpose to sever the Federal Union was openly avowed. In accordance with this purpose, an ordinance had been adopted in each of these States, declaring the States, respectively, to be separated from the National Union. A formula for instituting a combined government of these States had been promulgated; and this illegal organization, in the character of confederate States, was already invoking recognition, aid, and intervention, from foreign Powers.
Page 79 - The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel. Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals of any class which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject.
Page 9 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
Page 5 - Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit...