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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... treasury , and organize and equip vast armies ; the counteracting move- ments of the United States ; the organization of its armies , with the details of the weapons for the infantry and artillery , and for the batteries of the ships ...
... treasury , and organize and equip vast armies ; the counteracting move- ments of the United States ; the organization of its armies , with the details of the weapons for the infantry and artillery , and for the batteries of the ships ...
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... Treasury and the army and navy , and the South becomes a San Domingo . Even supposing that the Abolition Government at Washington , after ' reconstruc- tion , ' should affect to execute what it had prom- ised , is there any Southern ...
... Treasury and the army and navy , and the South becomes a San Domingo . Even supposing that the Abolition Government at Washington , after ' reconstruc- tion , ' should affect to execute what it had prom- ised , is there any Southern ...
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... Treasury De- partment of the United States , he sent the Chief Clerk of the First Comptroller's Office , W. H. Jones , to Mobile and New Orleans , to save , if possible , the two revenue cutters stationed at those places . At Mobile Mr ...
... Treasury De- partment of the United States , he sent the Chief Clerk of the First Comptroller's Office , W. H. Jones , to Mobile and New Orleans , to save , if possible , the two revenue cutters stationed at those places . At Mobile Mr ...
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... Treasury . Jan. 5 .... Jan. 12 . Jan. 19 . Jan. 26 . Feb. 2 . Feb. Feb. 16 . Feb. 23 . 9 . M'ch 2 . M'ch 9 .. M'ch 16 . M'ch 23 .. M'ch 30 . April 6 . April 13 . April 20 April 27 . May 4 .. May 11 . May 18 . May 25 . June 1 . June 8 ...
... Treasury . Jan. 5 .... Jan. 12 . Jan. 19 . Jan. 26 . Feb. 2 . Feb. Feb. 16 . Feb. 23 . 9 . M'ch 2 . M'ch 9 .. M'ch 16 . M'ch 23 .. M'ch 30 . April 6 . April 13 . April 20 April 27 . May 4 .. May 11 . May 18 . May 25 . June 1 . June 8 ...
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... Treasury notes were deposited for certificates , and subsequently when the demand notes of the Government became currency , the banks under the law of Congress deposited these with the assistant treasurer , and received 5 per cent ...
... Treasury notes were deposited for certificates , and subsequently when the demand notes of the Government became currency , the banks under the law of Congress deposited these with the assistant treasurer , and received 5 per cent ...
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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.