The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year1864 |
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... soon become a wine - mak- ing country ; California furnishing an amount almost as great as produced by all the rest of the Union . Ohio , Missouri , and other States , are wine producers on an extended scale , while all our markets are ...
... soon become a wine - mak- ing country ; California furnishing an amount almost as great as produced by all the rest of the Union . Ohio , Missouri , and other States , are wine producers on an extended scale , while all our markets are ...
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... soon found to exist in the Convention . On the day on which it assembled , the Representatives from the State in Washington met , and resolved to tele- graph to the Convention , advising immediate secession , stating that in their ...
... soon found to exist in the Convention . On the day on which it assembled , the Representatives from the State in Washington met , and resolved to tele- graph to the Convention , advising immediate secession , stating that in their ...
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... soon given up , and in its place sanguine hopes were encouraged of the future glory of the Con- federacy . At this time , previous to the surrender of Fort Sumter , a considerable Confederate force was , in a manner , besieging Fort ...
... soon given up , and in its place sanguine hopes were encouraged of the future glory of the Con- federacy . At this time , previous to the surrender of Fort Sumter , a considerable Confederate force was , in a manner , besieging Fort ...
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... soon be the establishment of private armo- ries adequate to the supply of all the arms that can be required for the country . The price of these is $ 20 each , the minimum sum offered in response to previous proposals presented by the ...
... soon be the establishment of private armo- ries adequate to the supply of all the arms that can be required for the country . The price of these is $ 20 each , the minimum sum offered in response to previous proposals presented by the ...
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... soon after it leaves the gun , it does no harm . James ' projectile is a cast - iron cylindrical bullet with a conical head , which may be solid , or for use as a shell , hollow . The cylindrical body , with the exception of a narrow ...
... soon after it leaves the gun , it does no harm . James ' projectile is a cast - iron cylindrical bullet with a conical head , which may be solid , or for use as a shell , hollow . The cylindrical body , with the exception of a narrow ...
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Página 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.
Página 216 - 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.
Página 239 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; 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;...
Página 186 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Página 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.
Página 176 - Constitution of the United States of America 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; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 414 - I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.
Página 216 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 176 - Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 239 - 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, and in arms around the capital ; that in this national emergency 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...