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... united . These conditions , however , may exist , but there may be wanting a strong government , such as is necessary for com- mercial intercourse . Within the limits of Negroland itself we find , for the first time , all these ...
... united . These conditions , however , may exist , but there may be wanting a strong government , such as is necessary for com- mercial intercourse . Within the limits of Negroland itself we find , for the first time , all these ...
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... United States will be the elevation of the negro race as much as possible . The example of Liberia will be the best means of showing what can be done in this direction . There they are now founding a college , with a pretty full corps ...
... United States will be the elevation of the negro race as much as possible . The example of Liberia will be the best means of showing what can be done in this direction . There they are now founding a college , with a pretty full corps ...
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... United States . COLONIZATION OFFICE , WASHINGTON , January 1 , 1862 . To the Hon . Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled : The EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY ...
... United States . COLONIZATION OFFICE , WASHINGTON , January 1 , 1862 . To the Hon . Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled : The EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY ...
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... United States to the interests they involve . These interests are to freedom , humanity , commerce , civilization and religion , immense . The commerce of Africa already attracts the attention of many nations , and when her people shall ...
... United States to the interests they involve . These interests are to freedom , humanity , commerce , civilization and religion , immense . The commerce of Africa already attracts the attention of many nations , and when her people shall ...
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... United States under the great pressure of existing discriminating duties ; and it has been deemed right and proper to impose on the vessels and cargoes of the United States in her ports , similar discrimi- nating duties . This is ...
... United States under the great pressure of existing discriminating duties ; and it has been deemed right and proper to impose on the vessels and cargoes of the United States in her ports , similar discrimi- nating duties . This is ...
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Page 296 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 104 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 208 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 176 - I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at any time, or in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field.
Page 297 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Page 104 - Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. The leaders of the existing insurrection entertain the hope that this government will ultimately be forced to acknowledge the independence of some part of the disaffected region, and that all the slave States north of such part will then say, "The Union for which we have struggled being already gone, we now choose to go with the Southern section.
Page 104 - ... all the States initiating it. The point is not that all the States tolerating slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation; but that while the offer is equally made to all, the more northern shall by such initiation make it certain to the more southern that in no event will the former ever join the latter in their proposed confederacy. I say "initiation" because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all.
Page 177 - Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as in the Providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
Page 334 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 297 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure...