The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... and should be rigidly confined within the narrowest limits compatible with an honest belligerent policy , and , in the opinion of this government , those limits ought to be made to include only arms and munitions of war .
... and should be rigidly confined within the narrowest limits compatible with an honest belligerent policy , and , in the opinion of this government , those limits ought to be made to include only arms and munitions of war .
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... list to objects of first necessity for war , and which are exclu- sively useful in its prosecution , and which can be directly employed for that purpose without undergoing any change that is to say , to arms and munitions of war .
... list to objects of first necessity for war , and which are exclu- sively useful in its prosecution , and which can be directly employed for that purpose without undergoing any change that is to say , to arms and munitions of war .
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If this prohibi- tory declaration had been confined to arms and munitions of war , . there would have been little difficulty in the fair adjustment of the questions which might arise under it . But it presents no such tangi- ble limit ...
If this prohibi- tory declaration had been confined to arms and munitions of war , . there would have been little difficulty in the fair adjustment of the questions which might arise under it . But it presents no such tangi- ble limit ...
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They would all be skillful riders and dexterous in the use of fire - arms— soldierly accomplishments which it takes years to teach , inadequately , to many of our mounted men . As they would go at once into the field , they would ...
They would all be skillful riders and dexterous in the use of fire - arms— soldierly accomplishments which it takes years to teach , inadequately , to many of our mounted men . As they would go at once into the field , they would ...
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The arm is one for which both study and experience are particularly necessary . Our military establishment is so small that every corps in the army is mainly employed in active service of a general description , and all attention by the ...
The arm is one for which both study and experience are particularly necessary . Our military establishment is so small that every corps in the army is mainly employed in active service of a general description , and all attention by the ...
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| Title | The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
| Author | United States. President |
| Published | 1860 |
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