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... March , a communication was received from the President of the Peace Congress , com- municating the resolutions thus adopted in that body . They were at once referred to a committee consisting of Messrs . Crit- tenden , Bigler , Thomson ...
... March , a communication was received from the President of the Peace Congress , com- municating the resolutions thus adopted in that body . They were at once referred to a committee consisting of Messrs . Crit- tenden , Bigler , Thomson ...
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... March , 1861 , Mr. LINCOLN took the oath and assumed the duties of the Presidential office . He was quite right in saying , on the eve of his departure from his home in Springfield , that those duties were greater than had devolved upon ...
... March , 1861 , Mr. LINCOLN took the oath and assumed the duties of the Presidential office . He was quite right in saying , on the eve of his departure from his home in Springfield , that those duties were greater than had devolved upon ...
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... March , Messrs . John Forsyth , of Alabama , and Crawford , of Georgia , requested an unofficial interview with the Secretary of State , which the latter declined . On the 13th they sent to him a communication informing him that they ...
... March , Messrs . John Forsyth , of Alabama , and Crawford , of Georgia , requested an unofficial interview with the Secretary of State , which the latter declined . On the 13th they sent to him a communication informing him that they ...
Page 122
... March , was withheld , with the consent of the Commissioners , until the 8th of April , when it was delivered . The fact of its receipt , and its character , were instantly telegraphed to Charleston , and it was made the occasion for ...
... March , was withheld , with the consent of the Commissioners , until the 8th of April , when it was delivered . The fact of its receipt , and its character , were instantly telegraphed to Charleston , and it was made the occasion for ...
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... March them around Balti- more and not through it . " I sincerely hope the General , on fuller reflec- tion , will consider this practical and proper , and that you will not object to it . By this a collision of the people of Baltimore ...
... March them around Balti- more and not through it . " I sincerely hope the General , on fuller reflec- tion , will consider this practical and proper , and that you will not object to it . By this a collision of the people of Baltimore ...
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Page 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 219 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 219 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 215 - 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 318 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 317 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 113 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 149 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 189 - Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate 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 114 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.