Our Foreign Relations: Showing Present Perils from England and France, the Nature and Conditions of Intervention by Mediation, and Also by Recognition, the Impossibility of Any Recognition of a New Power with Slavery as a Corner-stone, and the Wrongful Concession of Ocean Belligerency, Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Before the Citizens of New York, at the Cooper Institute, Sept. 10, 1863 |
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... assumed for the time to be the " expounder ; " and the case was accordingly presented on this ground . But the British cabinet , in its instinctive aptness to mix in our war , if only by diplomatic notes , seemed to have forgotten the ...
... assumed for the time to be the " expounder ; " and the case was accordingly presented on this ground . But the British cabinet , in its instinctive aptness to mix in our war , if only by diplomatic notes , seemed to have forgotten the ...
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... assumes to play the prophet becomes pledged in character and pretension to sustain his prophecy . The learned Jerome Cardan , professor and doctor , and also dabbler in astrol- ogy , of great fame in the middle ages , undertook to ...
... assumes to play the prophet becomes pledged in character and pretension to sustain his prophecy . The learned Jerome Cardan , professor and doctor , and also dabbler in astrol- ogy , of great fame in the middle ages , undertook to ...
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... assuming that by this insulting hocus pocus all English liability was avoided , they have proceeded at once to rob and destroy the commerce of the United States . England has been their naval base from which were derived the original ...
... assuming that by this insulting hocus pocus all English liability was avoided , they have proceeded at once to rob and destroy the commerce of the United States . England has been their naval base from which were derived the original ...
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... assumes , that , even if the armament were aboard so that the " ship of war " was complete at all points , still the expedition would be lawful , if the juggle of a sale were adroitly employed . But on this point the Supreme Court ...
... assumes , that , even if the armament were aboard so that the " ship of war " was complete at all points , still the expedition would be lawful , if the juggle of a sale were adroitly employed . But on this point the Supreme Court ...
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... compact was renewed at the Congress of Aix la Chapelle , in 1818 , with the explanatory declaration that the five great Powers would never assume jurisdiction over ques- tions concerning the rights and interests of another Power , 34.
... compact was renewed at the Congress of Aix la Chapelle , in 1818 , with the explanatory declaration that the five great Powers would never assume jurisdiction over ques- tions concerning the rights and interests of another Power , 34.
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Page 55 - 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. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 49 - This contest has now reached such a stage and been attended with such decisive success on the part of the Provinces that it merits the most profound consideration whether their right to the rank of independent nations, with all the advantages incident to it in their intercourse with the United States, is not complete.
Page 15 - Jesus ; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Page 51 - The acknowledgment of a new state as independent and entitled to a place in .the family of nations is at all times an act of great delicacy and responsibility, but more especially so when such state has forcibly separated itself from another of which it had formed an integral part and which still claims dominion over it. A premature recognition under these circumstances, if not looked upon as justifiable cause of war, is always liable to be regarded as a proof of an unfriendly spirit to one of the...
Page 75 - ... and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare 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 54 - The new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery as it exists amongst us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the "rock upon which the old Union would split.
Page 18 - It is likewise agreed, that the subjects and citizens of the two nations, shall not do any acts of hostility or violence against each other, nor accept commissions or instructions so to act from any foreign prince or state...
Page 17 - States, shall be, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required to seize and detain any vessel or any arms or munitions of war which may be provided or prepared for any military expedition or enterprise against the territory or dominions of any foreign Prince or State...
Page 31 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each...
Page 50 - In proposing this measure, it is not contemplated to change thereby, in the slightest manner, our friendly relations with either of the Parties, but to observe, in all respects, as heretofore, should the War be continued, the most perfect neutrality between them.