Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress: afterw. The abridgment: message from the President ... Includes reports of the heads of departments , 1850-1915, Volume 11861 |
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... condition for life . Now , there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed ; nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer . Both 18 ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT .
... condition for life . Now , there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed ; nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer . Both 18 ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT .
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... condition of a hired laborer . Both these assumptions are false , and all inferences from them are groundless . Capital is only the Labor is prior to , and independent of , capital . fruit of labor , and could never have existed if ...
... condition of a hired laborer . Both these assumptions are false , and all inferences from them are groundless . Capital is only the Labor is prior to , and independent of , capital . fruit of labor , and could never have existed if ...
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... conditions annexed , was inad- missible by the United States in three respects , namely : 1st . That the gov- ernment of the ... condition annexed to the declaration , which provided that the parties acced- ing to it should enter into no ...
... conditions annexed , was inad- missible by the United States in three respects , namely : 1st . That the gov- ernment of the ... condition annexed to the declaration , which provided that the parties acced- ing to it should enter into no ...
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... conditions , borne back to a far distance . The indubitable fact of the state of the intestine warfare in which the Union ... condition of things should appear to be placed in question by the 1 inchoate disturbance of that internal unity ...
... conditions , borne back to a far distance . The indubitable fact of the state of the intestine warfare in which the Union ... condition of things should appear to be placed in question by the 1 inchoate disturbance of that internal unity ...
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... condition of things there connected with an incipient state of war , I must request your excel- lency will please to make this interesting question the subject of a friendly and unreserved conference with the Secretary of State of that ...
... condition of things there connected with an incipient state of war , I must request your excel- lency will please to make this interesting question the subject of a friendly and unreserved conference with the Secretary of State of that ...
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Page 254 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 21 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 21 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on bis own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.
Page 21 - Men with their families — wives, sons, and daughters — work for themselves, on their farms, in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hired laborers or slaves on the other.
Page 495 - ... of the public lands which have been selected as the site for a city or town; no parcel or lot of land actually settled and occupied for the purposes of trade and not agriculture; and no lands on which are situated any known salines or mines, shall be liable to entry under and by virtue of the provisions of this act.
Page 20 - It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital — that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor.
Page 491 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 191 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 18 - Union, and none to the enemy ; and her people, at a regular election, have sustained the Union by a larger majority and a larger aggregate vote than they ever before gave to any candidate or any question. Kentucky, too, for some time in doubt, is now decidedly and, I think, unchangeably ranged on the side of the Union.
Page 908 - Columbia Institution for the Deaf was incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind under act of Congress, February 16, 1857 (11 Stat.