Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session of the Thirthy-eight Congress, Volume 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 |
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... commanding the department of the east , who was directed to investigate the subject and take proper measures to prevent a ... commanding company C , unattached infantry , Maine volunteers , commanding 12 DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE .
... commanding the department of the east , who was directed to investigate the subject and take proper measures to prevent a ... commanding company C , unattached infantry , Maine volunteers , commanding 12 DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE .
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... Commanding Department of the East . Colonel Dawson to Colonel Ludlow . PORTLAND ISLAND , December 2 , 1864 . COLONEL : I have the honor to transmit the report of Thos . P. Hutchinson , commanding the batteries at Eastport and Treat's ...
... Commanding Department of the East . Colonel Dawson to Colonel Ludlow . PORTLAND ISLAND , December 2 , 1864 . COLONEL : I have the honor to transmit the report of Thos . P. Hutchinson , commanding the batteries at Eastport and Treat's ...
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... Commanding Coast Defences Maine , Portland , Me . Captain Robinson to Captain Hutchinson . CAMPOBELLO , N. B. , August 16 , 1864 . SIR : Yesterday I went over to Treat's island for the purpose of seeing you and calling your attention to ...
... Commanding Coast Defences Maine , Portland , Me . Captain Robinson to Captain Hutchinson . CAMPOBELLO , N. B. , August 16 , 1864 . SIR : Yesterday I went over to Treat's island for the purpose of seeing you and calling your attention to ...
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... Commanding Fort Sullivan . J. P. and Captain Royal Navy , Campobello , N. B. Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley . DEPARTMENT OF STATE , Washington , December 15 , 1864 . SIR : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyons's note of ...
... Commanding Fort Sullivan . J. P. and Captain Royal Navy , Campobello , N. B. Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley . DEPARTMENT OF STATE , Washington , December 15 , 1864 . SIR : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyons's note of ...
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... commanding her Majesty's naval forces in the eastern seas , an account of the successful operations lately undertaken by a combined squadron of English , French , Dutch , and United States vessels against the bat- teries erected by the ...
... commanding her Majesty's naval forces in the eastern seas , an account of the successful operations lately undertaken by a combined squadron of English , French , Dutch , and United States vessels against the bat- teries erected by the ...
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Page 295 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 280 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 319 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 319 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered, — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that...
Page 294 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 294 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 319 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him...
Page 575 - The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note addressed to him on the loth ultimo by Mr.
Page 124 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 62 - Majesty's dominions in which such supposed offender shall be found, to examine upon oath any person or persons touching the truth of such charge, and upon such evidence as according to the laws of that part of Her Majesty's dominions would justify the apprehension and committal for trial of the person so accused, if the crime of which he or she shall be so accused had been there committed, it shall be lawful for such justice of the peace, or other person having power to commit as aforesaid, to issue...