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... legation . I have the honor to be , with the highest consideration , sir , your obedient servant , J. HUME BURNLEY , Esq . , & c . , & C . , & c . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . No. 9. ] [ Communicated by the British Legation . DIPLOMATIC ...
... legation . I have the honor to be , with the highest consideration , sir , your obedient servant , J. HUME BURNLEY , Esq . , & c . , & C . , & c . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . No. 9. ] [ Communicated by the British Legation . DIPLOMATIC ...
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... Legation . ] Earl Russell to Lord Lyons . FOREIGN OFFICE , December 7 , 1864 . MY LORD : The crime of trading in human beings has been for many years branded by the reprobation of all civilized nations . Still the atrocious traffic ...
... Legation . ] Earl Russell to Lord Lyons . FOREIGN OFFICE , December 7 , 1864 . MY LORD : The crime of trading in human beings has been for many years branded by the reprobation of all civilized nations . Still the atrocious traffic ...
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... Legation . ] Lord Russell to Mr. Burnley . FOREIGN OFFICE , December 24 , 1864 . SIR : Her Majesty's government have had under their consideration , in common with the proper law advisers of the Crown , Lord Lyons's despatches of the ...
... Legation . ] Lord Russell to Mr. Burnley . FOREIGN OFFICE , December 24 , 1864 . SIR : Her Majesty's government have had under their consideration , in common with the proper law advisers of the Crown , Lord Lyons's despatches of the ...
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... legation would also be glad to be informed what his present address is , with a view of forwarding to him a letter . BRITISH LEGATION , March 16 , 1865 . Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward . WASHINGTON , March 16 , 1865 . SIR : The President's ...
... legation would also be glad to be informed what his present address is , with a view of forwarding to him a letter . BRITISH LEGATION , March 16 , 1865 . Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward . WASHINGTON , March 16 , 1865 . SIR : The President's ...
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... LEGATION OF the United STATES , Paris , November 21 , 1864 . SIR : I herewith enclose you the copy of a memorandum , received by me from a gentleman in Paris , showing that the confederates have recently given a very large order to the ...
... LEGATION OF the United STATES , Paris , November 21 , 1864 . SIR : I herewith enclose you the copy of a memorandum , received by me from a gentleman in Paris , showing that the confederates have recently given a very large order to the ...
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Page 319 - ... If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
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 by 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 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 294 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
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 - 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 man by whom the offense cometh.
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 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.
Page 295 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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.