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... month of June , 1855 , as far north as nearly the 19th degree of N. latitude ; and the same was experienced by us on our outward journey , in 1850 , about the same season . The Fertile Regions.- About the general character of the ...
... month of June , 1855 , as far north as nearly the 19th degree of N. latitude ; and the same was experienced by us on our outward journey , in 1850 , about the same season . The Fertile Regions.- About the general character of the ...
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... month of June last , the Government had occa- sion to despatch the Quail to Gallinas to order away or to bring to trial , just as circumstances might require , a Spanish schooner , which had gone there for the purpose of purchasing ...
... month of June last , the Government had occa- sion to despatch the Quail to Gallinas to order away or to bring to trial , just as circumstances might require , a Spanish schooner , which had gone there for the purpose of purchasing ...
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... month - say November . I am pleased that New York and New Jersey are as determined as ever to effi- ciently prosecute that enterprise . Unless I am greatly mistaken in my views , before the expiration of five years , the influx of ...
... month - say November . I am pleased that New York and New Jersey are as determined as ever to effi- ciently prosecute that enterprise . Unless I am greatly mistaken in my views , before the expiration of five years , the influx of ...
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... months nearly four thousand recaptives , for whom this government will have to ren- der an account in the future . " The proceedings of the Board of Directors on the 24th of October of last year are before the public , and the ...
... months nearly four thousand recaptives , for whom this government will have to ren- der an account in the future . " The proceedings of the Board of Directors on the 24th of October of last year are before the public , and the ...
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... months reported . Sixty thousand tons of palm oil are estimated as sent annually from the western coast of Africa , and the quantity that reached Great Britain during the year 1859 was 804,326 cwt . " The exports of British goods during ...
... months reported . Sixty thousand tons of palm oil are estimated as sent annually from the western coast of Africa , and the quantity that reached Great Britain during the year 1859 was 804,326 cwt . " The exports of British goods during ...
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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...