Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1867 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Island , Con- necticut , and New Jersey ; those from Rhode Island being probably the most fortunate in this respect , which fact , however , is chiefly due to their superior discipline early in the cam- paign . It is difficult to ...
... Island , Con- necticut , and New Jersey ; those from Rhode Island being probably the most fortunate in this respect , which fact , however , is chiefly due to their superior discipline early in the cam- paign . It is difficult to ...
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... Island , of which an eye - witness remarks that they were visible at times in all parts of the heavens , being most numerous , however , in the southwest . Those observed in that quarter radiated from a point about ten degrees south of ...
... Island , of which an eye - witness remarks that they were visible at times in all parts of the heavens , being most numerous , however , in the southwest . Those observed in that quarter radiated from a point about ten degrees south of ...
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... Island , a long narrow tract of four hundred acres , between which and the Virginia shore the river runs with a rapid current . On the other side of the island , which is one hundred and fifty yards broad , the distance to the Mary ...
... Island , a long narrow tract of four hundred acres , between which and the Virginia shore the river runs with a rapid current . On the other side of the island , which is one hundred and fifty yards broad , the distance to the Mary ...
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... Island and Conrad's Ferry remained in position . Here the movement should have stopped . The orders of Gen. McClellan had been obeyed , and their object had been accomplished . The subsequent orders were not authorized by any superior ...
... Island and Conrad's Ferry remained in position . Here the movement should have stopped . The orders of Gen. McClellan had been obeyed , and their object had been accomplished . The subsequent orders were not authorized by any superior ...
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... Island , you will advance the California Regiment of your brigade , or retire the regiments under Colonels by blood ] Virginia side of the river , at your discretion Lee and Devens , now on the [ almost rendered illegible assuming ...
... Island , you will advance the California Regiment of your brigade , or retire the regiments under Colonels by blood ] Virginia side of the river , at your discretion Lee and Devens , now on the [ almost rendered illegible assuming ...
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Page 70 - 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 241 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 259 - 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 417 - 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 178 - ... was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
Page 129 - The prevailing ideas, entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen, at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 217 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 192 - ... the Constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 133 - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth...
Page 129 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery — subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.