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... respectfully , to submit the following report : That , in compliance with instructions , they assembled at the Military Academy , on the 10th day of June , and organized by the appoint- ment of a president and secretary . Immediately ...
... respectfully , to submit the following report : That , in compliance with instructions , they assembled at the Military Academy , on the 10th day of June , and organized by the appoint- ment of a president and secretary . Immediately ...
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... respectfully submitted . CHARLES DAVIES , President of Board of Visitors . HERMAN HAUPT , Secretary of Board of Visitors . JAMES S. ALBAN . ASAHEL BUSH . JAMES G. BLAINE . JAMES CLARK . DAVID COOPER . ALEXANDER CUMMINGS . DAVID DAVIS ...
... respectfully submitted . CHARLES DAVIES , President of Board of Visitors . HERMAN HAUPT , Secretary of Board of Visitors . JAMES S. ALBAN . ASAHEL BUSH . JAMES G. BLAINE . JAMES CLARK . DAVID COOPER . ALEXANDER CUMMINGS . DAVID DAVIS ...
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... respectfully yours , H. HAUPT , Secretary of the Board of Visitors . B. UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY , West Point , N. Y. , June 12 , 1861 . SIR In compliance with the resolution of the board of visitors requesting " the names of all ...
... respectfully yours , H. HAUPT , Secretary of the Board of Visitors . B. UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY , West Point , N. Y. , June 12 , 1861 . SIR In compliance with the resolution of the board of visitors requesting " the names of all ...
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... insubordination and neglect of duty . All of which is respectfully submitted . A. H. BOWMAN , Col. of Engineers and Sup❜t Military Academy . REPORT OF THE CADETS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY 38 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
... insubordination and neglect of duty . All of which is respectfully submitted . A. H. BOWMAN , Col. of Engineers and Sup❜t Military Academy . REPORT OF THE CADETS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY 38 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
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... respectfully , your obedient servant , JOSEPH G. TOTTEN , Brevet Brigadier General and Colonel Engineers . Colonel RICHARD DELAFIELD , Major Eng . and Sup't Mil . Acad . , West Point , N. Y. A true copy . ADJUTANT'S OFFICE , June 12 ...
... respectfully , your obedient servant , JOSEPH G. TOTTEN , Brevet Brigadier General and Colonel Engineers . Colonel RICHARD DELAFIELD , Major Eng . and Sup't Mil . Acad . , West Point , N. Y. A true copy . ADJUTANT'S OFFICE , June 12 ...
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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...