Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress |
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... instant , which confirms the statements you made to me orally on Wednesday last . I have only to add that , believing the cause of the stoppage of Mr. Bunch's bag to have been a bona fide suspicion on the part of the United States gov ...
... instant , which confirms the statements you made to me orally on Wednesday last . I have only to add that , believing the cause of the stoppage of Mr. Bunch's bag to have been a bona fide suspicion on the part of the United States gov ...
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... instant , in answer to a previous one of his own , dated the 21st instant , announcing the decision of the government of the United States to withdraw the exequatur of Mr. Bunch , her Majesty's consul at Charleston , in South Carolina ...
... instant , in answer to a previous one of his own , dated the 21st instant , announcing the decision of the government of the United States to withdraw the exequatur of Mr. Bunch , her Majesty's consul at Charleston , in South Carolina ...
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... instant the existence of one particle of good faith in any professions of this kind that may be countenanced by the rebel emissaries here . But I have thought it might not be without its use to recommend that the fact of their sanction ...
... instant the existence of one particle of good faith in any professions of this kind that may be countenanced by the rebel emissaries here . But I have thought it might not be without its use to recommend that the fact of their sanction ...
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... instant , containing a report of the remarks made in the House of Lords on the subject of the blockade and of the treatment of British citizens in the United States . Thus far the indications seem to be much more favorable ANNUAL ...
... instant , containing a report of the remarks made in the House of Lords on the subject of the blockade and of the treatment of British citizens in the United States . Thus far the indications seem to be much more favorable ANNUAL ...
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... instant . I trust that the antici- pation will be sustained . Captain Bullock , of Georgia , is understood to have written that he has five steamers built , or bought , armed , and supplied with materiel of war in England , which are ...
... instant . I trust that the antici- pation will be sustained . Captain Bullock , of Georgia , is understood to have written that he has five steamers built , or bought , armed , and supplied with materiel of war in England , which are ...
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Page 194 - ... shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 13 - 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 13 - 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 194 - ... state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 23 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 548 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 194 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 195 - Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the government of the United States;...
Page 195 - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective States and people, if...
Page 194 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...