Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... called fallowing . The modern improvements , how- ever , of underdraining and subsoil - ploughing , will secure all the advantages of the fallowing system , and in a much shorter time ; for it is now admitted that " the true rest of the ...
... called fallowing . The modern improvements , how- ever , of underdraining and subsoil - ploughing , will secure all the advantages of the fallowing system , and in a much shorter time ; for it is now admitted that " the true rest of the ...
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... called for an increase of the regular 13 10,153 army . This increase consisted of one regiment of cavalry of twelve companies , numbering , in the maximum aggregate , 1,189 , officers and men ; one regiment of artillery of twelve bat ...
... called for an increase of the regular 13 10,153 army . This increase consisted of one regiment of cavalry of twelve companies , numbering , in the maximum aggregate , 1,189 , officers and men ; one regiment of artillery of twelve bat ...
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... called a time or percussion fuse . The former is a hollow cylinder of paper , wood , or metal , enclosing a burning composition of such length , that the fire shall penetrate to the powder in the re- quired time ; or different ...
... called a time or percussion fuse . The former is a hollow cylinder of paper , wood , or metal , enclosing a burning composition of such length , that the fire shall penetrate to the powder in the re- quired time ; or different ...
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... de- sired . Such were the tents almost universally used by the French in the Crimean war , and called by them tentes d'abri , simplified by the use of a rope instead of the ridge - pole ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES . 35.
... de- sired . Such were the tents almost universally used by the French in the Crimean war , and called by them tentes d'abri , simplified by the use of a rope instead of the ridge - pole ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES . 35.
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... called Confederate States are engaged in a civil war , and her Majesty's Government have recognized that state of things , and have taken up a position of neutrality between the contending parties . Under these circumstances , if any ...
... called Confederate States are engaged in a civil war , and her Majesty's Government have recognized that state of things , and have taken up a position of neutrality between the contending parties . Under these circumstances , if any ...
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Page 70 - 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. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 241 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 259 - Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. 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 417 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 178 - ... was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
Page 129 - The prevailing ideas, entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen, at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 217 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 192 - ... the Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 133 - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth...
Page 129 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery — subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.