A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 5Bureau of national literature, 1897 |
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Page 3087
... Congress was confined to such States only as might think proper to admit the importation of slaves . It did not ... act imposing severe penalties and punishments upon citizens and residents of the United States who should engage in this trade ...
... Congress was confined to such States only as might think proper to admit the importation of slaves . It did not ... act imposing severe penalties and punishments upon citizens and residents of the United States who should engage in this trade ...
Page 3094
... act of simple justice to the admiral on that station to state that he wisely and discreetly forbore to commit any ... Congress to the unhappy condition of that Republic . The constituent Congress of Mexico , which adjourned on the 17th ...
... act of simple justice to the admiral on that station to state that he wisely and discreetly forbore to commit any ... Congress to the unhappy condition of that Republic . The constituent Congress of Mexico , which adjourned on the 17th ...
Page 3101
... Congress only act after the fact , after the mischief has been done ? Have they no power to confer upon the President the authority in advance to furnish instant redress should such a case afterwards occur ? Must they wait until the ...
... Congress only act after the fact , after the mischief has been done ? Have they no power to confer upon the President the authority in advance to furnish instant redress should such a case afterwards occur ? Must they wait until the ...
Page 3102
... act also contained an appropriation " to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post - Office Department for the ... Congress . This event imposed on the Executive a grave responsibility . It presented a choice of evils . Had this omission ...
... act also contained an appropriation " to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post - Office Department for the ... Congress . This event imposed on the Executive a grave responsibility . It presented a choice of evils . Had this omission ...
Page 3122
... acts of Congress and the proceedings of the House itself . Since the date of the act of the 11th of May , 1858 , admitting a portion of the Territory of Minnesota as a State into the Union , no act has been performed by the Executive ...
... acts of Congress and the proceedings of the House itself . Since the date of the act of the 11th of May , 1858 , admitting a portion of the Territory of Minnesota as a State into the Union , no act has been performed by the Executive ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN accompanying act of Congress ad interim aforesaid amendment America ANDREW JOHNSON appointed approved Army authority bill Carolina caused the seal citizens city of Washington civil command commissioners convention copy courts December declare deemed Department district duty election entitled An act EXECUTIVE MANSION exercise existing February Federal force foreign Government Grant hand and caused hereby hereunto set House of Representatives Indians instant insurrection JAMES BUCHANAN January John Wilkes Booth July June land legislation legislature loyal Major-General March ment military naval Navy oath officers peace persons ports present President proclamation proper purpose ratification rebellion received Republic requesting resolution respective Secretary Secretary of War Senate Senate and House set my hand SEWARD slaves South Carolina Stanton Territory thereof tion transmit a report transmit herewith Treasury treaty ultimo Union United vessels vote War Department Whereas WILLIAM H
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Page 3359 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 3456 - 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 3310 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Page 3300 - 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 3359 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 3211 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you...
Page 3310 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended...
Page 3337 - The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before.
Page 3210 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union.