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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... March . Some of them withheld their signatures entirely . The sessions of the Convention were conducted wholly in secret , and only such measures were made known to the public as were of such a character as to prevent secrecy . On the ...
... March . Some of them withheld their signatures entirely . The sessions of the Convention were conducted wholly in secret , and only such measures were made known to the public as were of such a character as to prevent secrecy . On the ...
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... March , and took up for approval the Constitution adopted by the Confederate Con- gress . In all the seceding States it was adopted by the State Convention , without being sub- mitted to the people to vote for or against it . The ...
... March , and took up for approval the Constitution adopted by the Confederate Con- gress . In all the seceding States it was adopted by the State Convention , without being sub- mitted to the people to vote for or against it . The ...
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... March , and organized by the election of Union officers , by a majority of six . On the 6th , the inaugural of President Lincoln was received , and produced an unfavorable impression on the minds of the people . Secession was strongly ...
... March , and organized by the election of Union officers , by a majority of six . On the 6th , the inaugural of President Lincoln was received , and produced an unfavorable impression on the minds of the people . Secession was strongly ...
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... March , the Austrian emperor , through his Minister of Foreign Affairs , Count Rechberg , protested , in a circular to the nations of Europe , against the adoption of the title of " King of Italy , " by Victor Emanuel . A national ...
... March , the Austrian emperor , through his Minister of Foreign Affairs , Count Rechberg , protested , in a circular to the nations of Europe , against the adoption of the title of " King of Italy , " by Victor Emanuel . A national ...
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... march , up President street by every possible means . Stones were thrown in great numbers . At Fawn street two of the soldiers were knocked down by stones and greatly injured . After the cars had been checked and return- ed to the depot ...
... march , up President street by every possible means . Stones were thrown in great numbers . At Fawn street two of the soldiers were knocked down by stones and greatly injured . After the cars had been checked and return- ed to the depot ...
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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.