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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I regret to inform you that there has been no improvement in the affairs of Mexico since my last annual message , and I am again obliged to ask the earnest attention of Congress to the unhappy con- dition of that republic .
I regret to inform you that there has been no improvement in the affairs of Mexico since my last annual message , and I am again obliged to ask the earnest attention of Congress to the unhappy con- dition of that republic .
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The tendency of modern civilization and improvement is to mitigate the calamities of war , and the progress of opinion has introduced im- portant meliorations into the mode of its prosecution , especially upon land ; but unfortunately ...
The tendency of modern civilization and improvement is to mitigate the calamities of war , and the progress of opinion has introduced im- portant meliorations into the mode of its prosecution , especially upon land ; but unfortunately ...
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It found its way into the code of nations when the means of supply were much more restricted than at present , and before the progress of improvement had placed it in the ...
It found its way into the code of nations when the means of supply were much more restricted than at present , and before the progress of improvement had placed it in the ...
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Independent of the want of adaptation of this interdict upon the commerce of the world to its avowed objects , owing to the improvement in the general power of production and supply , there are serious evils to which it is exposed ...
Independent of the want of adaptation of this interdict upon the commerce of the world to its avowed objects , owing to the improvement in the general power of production and supply , there are serious evils to which it is exposed ...
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But still the nature of such improvements , and the just title of the articles contributing towards them to take their places in the list of contraband , is a subject of controversy , which is liable to be followed by the most serious ...
But still the nature of such improvements , and the just title of the articles contributing towards them to take their places in the list of contraband , is a subject of controversy , which is liable to be followed by the most serious ...
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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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