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 even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves , these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast . Such a force no State can ...
And even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves , these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast . Such a force no State can ...
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In the view that the employment of other than peaceful means might become necessary to obtain " just satisfaction " from Paraguay , a strong naval force was concentrated in the waters of the La Plata to await contingencies whilst our ...
In the view that the employment of other than peaceful means might become necessary to obtain " just satisfaction " from Paraguay , a strong naval force was concentrated in the waters of the La Plata to await contingencies whilst our ...
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The title ought to be settled before either party should attempt to ex- clude the other by force , or exercise complete and exclusive sovereign rights within the fairly disputed limits . 66 In acknowledging the receipt , on the next day ...
The title ought to be settled before either party should attempt to ex- clude the other by force , or exercise complete and exclusive sovereign rights within the fairly disputed limits . 66 In acknowledging the receipt , on the next day ...
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The force was afterwards increased , so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to six hundred and ninety - one men .
The force was afterwards increased , so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to six hundred and ninety - one men .
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General Scott has recently returned from his mission , having successfully accomplished its objects , and there is no longer any good reason to apprehend a collision between the forces of the two countries during the pendency of the ...
General Scott has recently returned from his mission , having successfully accomplished its objects , and there is no longer any good reason to apprehend a collision between the forces of the two countries during the pendency of 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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