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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... officers ; the Messages and proclamations of Governors ; the important acts of the United States and Con- federate Congresses ; the acts and resolutions of State Legislatures ; the proc- lamations and orders of commanding officers ; the ...
... officers ; the Messages and proclamations of Governors ; the important acts of the United States and Con- federate Congresses ; the acts and resolutions of State Legislatures ; the proc- lamations and orders of commanding officers ; the ...
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... officers was held at the Naval School on the 23d , and it was determined that the passage of troops through Maryland to the city of Washington should be conducted in such a manner as to give no cause of offence to the people of the ...
... officers was held at the Naval School on the 23d , and it was determined that the passage of troops through Maryland to the city of Washington should be conducted in such a manner as to give no cause of offence to the people of the ...
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... officers and men ; one regiment of artillery of twelve bat- teries , of six pieces each , numbering , in the maximum aggregate , 1,909 , officers and men ; nine regiments of infantry , each regiment con- taining three battalions of ...
... officers and men ; one regiment of artillery of twelve bat- teries , of six pieces each , numbering , in the maximum aggregate , 1,909 , officers and men ; nine regiments of infantry , each regiment con- taining three battalions of ...
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... officers would be continued in service , while the strict- est injunction was imposed upon them to arrest every one who might attempt to disturb the peace . The functions of the Board of Police were suspended as soon as Colonel Kenly ...
... officers would be continued in service , while the strict- est injunction was imposed upon them to arrest every one who might attempt to disturb the peace . The functions of the Board of Police were suspended as soon as Colonel Kenly ...
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... officers to sell the stocks and redeem the circu- lation as far as the proceeds would do it . It is a vice of the free banking system that it re- quires the sales of stock at the moment when the market is the least able to bear them ...
... officers to sell the stocks and redeem the circu- lation as far as the proceeds would do it . It is a vice of the free banking system that it re- quires the sales of stock at the moment when the market is the least able to bear them ...
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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.