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 numerous victims required to supply it would convert the whole slave . coast into a perfect pandemonium , for which this country would be held responsible in the eyes both of God and man . Its petty tribes would then be constantly ...
The numerous victims required to supply it would convert the whole slave . coast into a perfect pandemonium , for which this country would be held responsible in the eyes both of God and man . Its petty tribes would then be constantly ...
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I venture to assert that the additional cost of transporting troops , munitions of war , and necessary supplies for the army across the vast intervening plains to our possessions on the Pacific coast would be greater in such a war than ...
I venture to assert that the additional cost of transporting troops , munitions of war , and necessary supplies for the army across the vast intervening plains to our possessions on the Pacific coast would be greater in such a war than ...
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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 found its way into the code of nations when the means of supply were much more restricted than at present ... No state will ever be reduced because its enemy may have it in his power to seize and confiscate supplies under the name of ...
It found its way into the code of nations when the means of supply were much more restricted than at present ... No state will ever be reduced because its enemy may have it in his power to seize and confiscate supplies under the name of ...
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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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| 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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