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... English Government has reduced the dispute to a very narrow and simple issue . It is not denied that the Americans have a right to search neutral vessels for articles contraband to war . It is a right we have always exercised in time of ...
... English Government has reduced the dispute to a very narrow and simple issue . It is not denied that the Americans have a right to search neutral vessels for articles contraband to war . It is a right we have always exercised in time of ...
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... English Government . It will express regret at the informality of the American captain's proceeding ; an assurance that it arose from friendship and not from any feeling of enmity ; and that the Federal Government is ready and willing ...
... English Government . It will express regret at the informality of the American captain's proceeding ; an assurance that it arose from friendship and not from any feeling of enmity ; and that the Federal Government is ready and willing ...
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... English Government , the insult did not consist in stopping the Trent , or in searching the Trent , or in seizing the Confederate Com- missioners ; but in seizing Messrs . Slidell and Mason without taking the Trent into an American port ...
... English Government , the insult did not consist in stopping the Trent , or in searching the Trent , or in seizing the Confederate Com- missioners ; but in seizing Messrs . Slidell and Mason without taking the Trent into an American port ...
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... English Government does not express the feeling that this unhappy affair has engendered in the minds of the English public . It is not the mere informality of the proceeding that has given rise to so much angry excitement . English ...
... English Government does not express the feeling that this unhappy affair has engendered in the minds of the English public . It is not the mere informality of the proceeding that has given rise to so much angry excitement . English ...
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... English flag are asylums for political refugees , but not for men actually engaged in rebel- lion . It will be urged that secession is not rebellion . We reply that till this moment we do recognise the Federal Government , but we do not ...
... English flag are asylums for political refugees , but not for men actually engaged in rebel- lion . It will be urged that secession is not rebellion . We reply that till this moment we do recognise the Federal Government , but we do not ...
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Page 20 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 17 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Page 15 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 19 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Page 19 - We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
Page 14 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 19 - Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.
Page 20 - ... any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace...
Page 21 - I am of opinion that this vessel is to be considered as a French transport. It would be a very different case if a vessel appeared to be carrying only a few individual invalided soldiers, or discharged sailors, taken on board by chance, and at their own charge. Looking at the description given of the men on board, I am satisfied that they are still as effective members of the French marine as any can be.