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Page 249
... Emperor . The command was intrusted to Gencral St. Arnaud , who as Minister of War had taken a prominent part in the coup d'état and in the Parisian massacres . He was a person of considerable ability and extraordinary spirit , had ...
... Emperor . The command was intrusted to Gencral St. Arnaud , who as Minister of War had taken a prominent part in the coup d'état and in the Parisian massacres . He was a person of considerable ability and extraordinary spirit , had ...
Page 252
... Emperor proposed to form a league to compel the Czar to retire from these pro- vinces . During the month of February he strengthened his army on the frontier of Wallachia by a reinforcement of 50,000 men , and thus placed the Russian ...
... Emperor proposed to form a league to compel the Czar to retire from these pro- vinces . During the month of February he strengthened his army on the frontier of Wallachia by a reinforcement of 50,000 men , and thus placed the Russian ...
Page 262
... Emperor's two sons , the Archdukes Nicholas and Michael , reached Sebastopol before the meditated attempt was made . Shortly after midnight of the morning of Sunday , November 5th , the troops who guarded the trenches heard the tolling ...
... Emperor's two sons , the Archdukes Nicholas and Michael , reached Sebastopol before the meditated attempt was made . Shortly after midnight of the morning of Sunday , November 5th , the troops who guarded the trenches heard the tolling ...
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... Emperor and Empress visit England - Our Queen and Prince Albert visit Paris - Policy of Austria and Prussia - Austrian Ultimatum - Peace Conferences- Intrigues of the Russians - Treaty of Peace concluded - Its terms - Reluctance of the ...
... Emperor and Empress visit England - Our Queen and Prince Albert visit Paris - Policy of Austria and Prussia - Austrian Ultimatum - Peace Conferences- Intrigues of the Russians - Treaty of Peace concluded - Its terms - Reluctance of the ...
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... Emperor boasted that Sebastopol would never be taken . The Russian corps , under General Lip- randi , abandoned , on the 6th of December , their position before Balaklava , and with- drew towards Mackenzie's Heights . They appear to ...
... Emperor boasted that Sebastopol would never be taken . The Russian corps , under General Lip- randi , abandoned , on the 6th of December , their position before Balaklava , and with- drew towards Mackenzie's Heights . They appear to ...
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Page 51 - 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 43 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Page 51 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 56 - With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 293 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag ; 4.
Page 44 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 51 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 56 - It would have been presented at once, but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted all the best years of my life, and all the ability I possessed.
Page 49 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 90 - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new startingpoint from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.