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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The general health of the country has been excellent : our harvests have been unusually plentiful , and pros- perity smiles throughout the land . Indeed , notwithstanding our de- merits , we have much reason to believe , from the past ...
The general health of the country has been excellent : our harvests have been unusually plentiful , and pros- perity smiles throughout the land . Indeed , notwithstanding our de- merits , we have much reason to believe , from the past ...
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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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... providing for its abandonment , and some of them , as the Baltic states , by the league known as the armed neutrality , and by forcible resistance . The opposition of Hol- land to it has been almost unremitted .
... providing for its abandonment , and some of them , as the Baltic states , by the league known as the armed neutrality , and by forcible resistance . The opposition of Hol- land to it has been almost unremitted .
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The investment of a place by sea and land , with a view to its reduction , preventing it from receiving supplies of men and material necessary for its defense ...
The investment of a place by sea and land , with a view to its reduction , preventing it from receiving supplies of men and material necessary for its defense ...
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... it might well be questioned whether this rule can be applied to a place not completely invested by land as well as by sea . If we examine the reasoning on which is founded the right to intercept and confiscate supplies designed for ...
... it might well be questioned whether this rule can be applied to a place not completely invested by land as well as by sea . If we examine the reasoning on which is founded the right to intercept and confiscate supplies designed for ...
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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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