The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1863 |
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... north by Tennessee , east by Georgia , south by Florida and the Gulf of Mex- ico , and west by Mississippi . It is 330 miles in its extreme length from north to south , and 300 miles in its greatest breadth . The population of the State ...
... north by Tennessee , east by Georgia , south by Florida and the Gulf of Mex- ico , and west by Mississippi . It is 330 miles in its extreme length from north to south , and 300 miles in its greatest breadth . The population of the State ...
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... North Alabama would never abide the action of that Convention , if denied the right of voting upon it . Mr. Yan- cey thereupon denounced the people of North Alabama as tories , traitors , and rebels , and said they ought to be coerced ...
... North Alabama would never abide the action of that Convention , if denied the right of voting upon it . Mr. Yan- cey thereupon denounced the people of North Alabama as tories , traitors , and rebels , and said they ought to be coerced ...
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... North , and the business of the Court in which the Judge presided , was rapidly increasing . But this involved a point within the sphere of the civil Government , rather than within the jurisdiction of a Provost - Judge , and in ...
... North , and the business of the Court in which the Judge presided , was rapidly increasing . But this involved a point within the sphere of the civil Government , rather than within the jurisdiction of a Provost - Judge , and in ...
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... North Caro- lina , Tennessee , Arkansas , Kentucky , and Mis- souri peremptorily refused to comply with the requirements made by the War Department . All the other non - seceding States promptly furnished the number required of them ...
... North Caro- lina , Tennessee , Arkansas , Kentucky , and Mis- souri peremptorily refused to comply with the requirements made by the War Department . All the other non - seceding States promptly furnished the number required of them ...
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... north a bright streamer , rising to a great height above the horizon , and it was at once concluded that this was the tail of the same comet . The daily newspapers report , that the head of the comet was seen on Saturday even- ing at ...
... north a bright streamer , rising to a great height above the horizon , and it was at once concluded that this was the tail of the same comet . The daily newspapers report , that the head of the comet was seen on Saturday even- ing at ...
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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 218 - 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 259 - ... 1. Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3.
Page 121 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 403 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or 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...
Page 244 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the Disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government...
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 411 - Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be invasion? I certainly think it would, and it would be coercion also, if the South Carolinians were forced to submit. But if the United States should merely hold and retake its own forts and other property, and collect the duties on foreign importations, or even withhold the mails from places where they were habitually violated, would any or all of these things be invasion...
Page 136 - Sumter. The news itself was, that the officer commanding the Sabine, to which vessel the troops had been transferred from the Brooklyn, acting upon some quasi armistice of the late administration, (and of the existence of which the present administration, up to the time the order was despatched, had only too vague and uncertain rumors to fix attention,) had refused to land the troops.
Page 159 - State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.