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... miles from the city . It was built on an artificial island , having for its base a sand and mud bank , which had been made secure by long and weary labors in firmly imbedding in it refuse blocks and chips from the granite quarries of ...
... miles from the city . It was built on an artificial island , having for its base a sand and mud bank , which had been made secure by long and weary labors in firmly imbedding in it refuse blocks and chips from the granite quarries of ...
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... mile it was black with the excited , rushing mass . The crowd , as they went , filled the track with obstructions ; the police who , throughout the whole affair , had contended for order with the most devoted courage , followed in full ...
... mile it was black with the excited , rushing mass . The crowd , as they went , filled the track with obstructions ; the police who , throughout the whole affair , had contended for order with the most devoted courage , followed in full ...
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... miles . The people of Hampton , even those who lived beyond , saw the red light , and thought all Norfolk was on fire . It was certainly a grand though terrible spectacle to witness . In the midst of the brilliance of the scene , the ...
... miles . The people of Hampton , even those who lived beyond , saw the red light , and thought all Norfolk was on fire . It was certainly a grand though terrible spectacle to witness . In the midst of the brilliance of the scene , the ...
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... miles of the capital , Mr. Seward , in a letter of instructions to Mr. Dayton , the recently appointed minister to France , dated the 4th of May , urged him to assure that government of the fact that an idea of a permanent disruption of ...
... miles of the capital , Mr. Seward , in a letter of instructions to Mr. Dayton , the recently appointed minister to France , dated the 4th of May , urged him to assure that government of the fact that an idea of a permanent disruption of ...
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... miles distant on the other side , the Confederates had erected a powerful battery , which had proved its efficiency and strength by resisting an attack made upon it on the 19th of May , and continued for two days , by the Federal ...
... miles distant on the other side , the Confederates had erected a powerful battery , which had proved its efficiency and strength by resisting an attack made upon it on the 19th of May , and continued for two days , by the Federal ...
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Page 56 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 59 - I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the' liberties of a free people. You can. get no troops from North Carolina." Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, replied : — " Your dispatch is received. I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.
Page 56 - ... and property which have been seized from the Union, and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country, and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within twenty days from this date.
Page 60 - I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object — an object in my judgment not within the purview of the Constitution or the Act of 1795 — will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the administration has exhibited...
Page 32 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject matters...
Page 74 - Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.
Page 19 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 17 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials and papers, touching the abolition of slavery or the buying, selling or transferring of slaves, in any State, District or Territory, of the United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 30 - Democratic party to be inferior in dignity and importance to the groat question of slavery, they content themselves with a general reaffirmance of the Cincinnati platform as to such issues, and also indorse said platform as to slavery, together with the following resolutions...
Page 106 - General, they are beating us back ;" to which the latter promptly replied : " Sir, we'll give them the bayonet." General Bee immediately rallied his overtasked troops with the words : " There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.