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... vessel , and other papers duly legalized by the United States consul at Liverpool , for the purpose of setting at rest the question of nationality , as raised by your note of the 1st ultimo . In these papers you will see it distinctly ...
... vessel , and other papers duly legalized by the United States consul at Liverpool , for the purpose of setting at rest the question of nationality , as raised by your note of the 1st ultimo . In these papers you will see it distinctly ...
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... vessel by the United States government . I would propose that the vessel be brought at once to New York , as first directed by the Navy Department , and then regularly appraised and settlement made with the owners as to a fair price ...
... vessel by the United States government . I would propose that the vessel be brought at once to New York , as first directed by the Navy Department , and then regularly appraised and settlement made with the owners as to a fair price ...
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... vessels were being built here for the use of the rebels . I immediately sent and had them examined and the following descriptions taken : The largest vessel , called the El Almandares , is a wooden side - wheeled steamer , about 215 ...
... vessels were being built here for the use of the rebels . I immediately sent and had them examined and the following descriptions taken : The largest vessel , called the El Almandares , is a wooden side - wheeled steamer , about 215 ...
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... vessel is expected to join the two already here , from the upper province , with a description of which I will endeavor to furnish you . It may be that these vessels are designed for legitimate purposes , but the belief to the con ...
... vessel is expected to join the two already here , from the upper province , with a description of which I will endeavor to furnish you . It may be that these vessels are designed for legitimate purposes , but the belief to the con ...
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... vessel , which had lately reached this harbor . A search was made , and nothing was found but a 12 - pounder gun , and a case supposed to contain shell . Upon this , the lieutenant governor , acting upon the advice of the attorney ...
... vessel , which had lately reached this harbor . A search was made , and nothing was found but a 12 - pounder gun , and a case supposed to contain shell . Upon this , the lieutenant governor , acting upon the advice of the attorney ...
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acknowledge the receipt Acting Secretary addressed alleged American ANSON BURLINGAME April April 18 Assassination of President authorities belligerent British subjects Burlingame Canada Captain Chargé d'Affaires claims communication confederate consul cotton crew December DEPARTMENT despatch Drouyn de Lhuys enclose a copy Enclosure ERNEST PICARD excellency extradition February Ferrol foreign affairs France Frederick Bruce FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE French high consideration highest consideration honor to acknowledge honor to enclose honor to transmit hostile humble servant HUME BURNLEY Hunter to Sir imperial instant instructions insurgents January JOHN BIGELOW June LEGATION letter Majesty Majesty's government March Mexico Nassau nations neutrality obedient servant officers Paris Perry port President Lincoln Prince Kung received reference regard reply request respect Seward ship Sir F SIR FREDERICK W. A. steamer Stirrups cay Stonewall telegraph tion treaty ultimo United States consul United States government vessel Washington WILLIAM H
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Page 323 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 323 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 298 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 323 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 298 - It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence...
Page 323 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 579 - The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note addressed to him on the loth ultimo by Mr.
Page 487 - I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.
Page 298 - And when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm ; when, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and it...
Page 61 - With reference to the note which you did me the honor to address to me on the...