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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... question of constitutional power to do so is no longer an open one with us . The power was questioned at first by Mr ... questions which are not of vital military importance to the more deliberate action of the legislature . In the ...
... question of constitutional power to do so is no longer an open one with us . The power was questioned at first by Mr ... questions which are not of vital military importance to the more deliberate action of the legislature . In the ...
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... questions which belong entirely to the domestic relations of the Union . Our whole endeavor in this matter must be ... question the subject of a friendly and unreserved conference with the Secretary of State of that country . It would ...
... questions which belong entirely to the domestic relations of the Union . Our whole endeavor in this matter must be ... question the subject of a friendly and unreserved conference with the Secretary of State of that country . It would ...
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... question or reservation , all their obligations . This an- nouncement is accompanied by assurances of good feeling and good will that will not fail , under the peculiar circumstances of the times , to make a deep and lasting impression ...
... question or reservation , all their obligations . This an- nouncement is accompanied by assurances of good feeling and good will that will not fail , under the peculiar circumstances of the times , to make a deep and lasting impression ...
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... question of privateering and maritime war , I had an interview with Baron Von Schleinitz , minister of foreign affairs of his Majesty the King of Prussia . In communicating to the baron my instructions on that subject , and inform- ing ...
... question of privateering and maritime war , I had an interview with Baron Von Schleinitz , minister of foreign affairs of his Majesty the King of Prussia . In communicating to the baron my instructions on that subject , and inform- ing ...
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... now regarded as only a question of time . I am , sir , your obedient servant , H. S. SANFORD , Esq . , & c . , & c . , Brussels . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford . No. 11. ] DEPARTMENT ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT . 59.
... now regarded as only a question of time . I am , sir , your obedient servant , H. S. SANFORD , Esq . , & c . , & c . , Brussels . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford . No. 11. ] DEPARTMENT ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT . 59.
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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.