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 Industry, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... direct food for plants , while lime arising from organic decomposition is readily assimilated by them . Two thousand bushels of lime , made by burn- ing limestone rock of Westchester Co. , N. Y. , applied to a single acre , will render ...
... direct food for plants , while lime arising from organic decomposition is readily assimilated by them . Two thousand bushels of lime , made by burn- ing limestone rock of Westchester Co. , N. Y. , applied to a single acre , will render ...
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... direct food for plants ; that which is contained in decaying organisms , or as resulting from the ashes of wood and other substances , when applied to the soil , is readily as- similated by plants ; but the more crude kinds of lime ...
... direct food for plants ; that which is contained in decaying organisms , or as resulting from the ashes of wood and other substances , when applied to the soil , is readily as- similated by plants ; but the more crude kinds of lime ...
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... direct road from Pooles- ville to Leesburg . On the opposite banks of the Potomac the hostile forces of the North and South had con- fronted each other for many months . The dis- tance thus occupied extended from Great Falls up the ...
... direct road from Pooles- ville to Leesburg . On the opposite banks of the Potomac the hostile forces of the North and South had con- fronted each other for many months . The dis- tance thus occupied extended from Great Falls up the ...
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... direct course , such as has been remarked of the projectile . The piece , I have since learned , was taken by the enemy ; with it there were but eight or ten rounds of shell , and about twenty blanks . I do not think it was possible to ...
... direct course , such as has been remarked of the projectile . The piece , I have since learned , was taken by the enemy ; with it there were but eight or ten rounds of shell , and about twenty blanks . I do not think it was possible to ...
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... direct the movements of the naval and military forces , placed by law at his command , and to employ them in the manner he may deem most effectual to harass and conquer and subdue the enemy . As chief of the navy , nobody can doubt the ...
... direct the movements of the naval and military forces , placed by law at his command , and to employ them in the manner he may deem most effectual to harass and conquer and subdue the enemy . As chief of the navy , nobody can doubt the ...
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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.