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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... communication with southern States - 319 320 127 Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward . March 18 Suffering in France . Desire for cotton , and for mail communication with the south- ern States . 321 128 ..do .... March 19 Amelioration of maritime ...
... communication with southern States - 319 320 127 Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward . March 18 Suffering in France . Desire for cotton , and for mail communication with the south- ern States . 321 128 ..do .... March 19 Amelioration of maritime ...
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... communication with French subjects 408 Seward . in the blockaded ports . Mr. Seward to Mr. Jan. 10 The same subject ...... 408 Mercier . Mr. Thouvenel to Jan. Mr. Mercier . Do ..... Jan. 23 Mr. Seward to Mr. Feb. 7 19 The communication ...
... communication with French subjects 408 Seward . in the blockaded ports . Mr. Seward to Mr. Jan. 10 The same subject ...... 408 Mercier . Mr. Thouvenel to Jan. Mr. Mercier . Do ..... Jan. 23 Mr. Seward to Mr. Feb. 7 19 The communication ...
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... Communication between the French lega- tion and the French consulate at Rich- mond . 430 The same subject . 430 Case of Edward Dupasseur & Co ...... 430 Mr Johnson to Mr. Aug. 19 Seward . The same subject .... 431 Mr. F. W. Seward Aug ...
... Communication between the French lega- tion and the French consulate at Rich- mond . 430 The same subject . 430 Case of Edward Dupasseur & Co ...... 430 Mr Johnson to Mr. Aug. 19 Seward . The same subject .... 431 Mr. F. W. Seward Aug ...
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... communication between his government and its consuls , through the national vessels of Great Britain entering blockaded ports , without carrying passengers or private letters , bid fair to preclude all necessity for a recurrence of such ...
... communication between his government and its consuls , through the national vessels of Great Britain entering blockaded ports , without carrying passengers or private letters , bid fair to preclude all necessity for a recurrence of such ...
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... communication to be addressed to the government of the so - called Confederate States respecting the goods of a belligerent on board of neutral ships , or the goods of a neutral on board of belligerent ships , should have been made by ...
... communication to be addressed to the government of the so - called Confederate States respecting the goods of a belligerent on board of neutral ships , or the goods of a neutral on board of belligerent ships , should have been made by ...
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Page 551 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 196 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 132 - States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists ; and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 196 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 300 - ... and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
Page 196 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 12 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 197 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Page 12 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave-trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.
Page 13 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.