The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 5Redfield, 1884 - New York (State) |
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... Civil War Volunteers in Excess - Mr. Dayton - Details of a Conspiracy The Situation Reviewed Emancipation Policy Mr. Pike The Higher Law The Slavery Question the experimentum crucis of Politics . Proclamation of January 1 , 1863 France ...
... Civil War Volunteers in Excess - Mr. Dayton - Details of a Conspiracy The Situation Reviewed Emancipation Policy Mr. Pike The Higher Law The Slavery Question the experimentum crucis of Politics . Proclamation of January 1 , 1863 France ...
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... civil institutions of that State , including the Judiciary and the judicial author- ities of the Union , so that it has become necessary to hold the State in military occupation ; and it being indispensably necessary that there shall be ...
... civil institutions of that State , including the Judiciary and the judicial author- ities of the Union , so that it has become necessary to hold the State in military occupation ; and it being indispensably necessary that there shall be ...
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... civil war , and to permit us to secure the blessings of peace , unity and harmony , with a great enlargement of civil liberty ; and whereas , our Heavenly Father has also , during the year , graciously averted from us the calamities of ...
... civil war , and to permit us to secure the blessings of peace , unity and harmony , with a great enlargement of civil liberty ; and whereas , our Heavenly Father has also , during the year , graciously averted from us the calamities of ...
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... civil war , I regard a restoration of the unity of the country as its most immediate as well as its most vital interest . * That restoration will be complete when loyal men are admitted as representatives of the loyal people of the ...
... civil war , I regard a restoration of the unity of the country as its most immediate as well as its most vital interest . * That restoration will be complete when loyal men are admitted as representatives of the loyal people of the ...
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... civil discord into which we have fallen . But even a very limited experience of human nature will enable us to practise the necessary equanimity in such a crisis . Changes of habit and policy are necessary to national growth and ...
... civil discord into which we have fallen . But even a very limited experience of human nature will enable us to practise the necessary equanimity in such a crisis . Changes of habit and policy are necessary to national growth and ...
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Page 595 - ... that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 499 - ... justice. humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Page 594 - ... above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 594 - 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 347 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : —
Page 192 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the 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 594 - 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 for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 595 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 602 - Straits on the parallel of sixty-five degrees thirty minutes north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the islands of Krusenstern or Ignalook, and the island of Ratmanoff, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean.
Page 601 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...