 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 808 pages
...Confederates an outstanding menace, which was met on the side of the Federals by the firm declaration that " the law of nations and the usages and customs of war...treatment of prisoners of war as public enemies." In this singular course of the questions involved in the treatment of white prisoners of the same country... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 1552 pages
...information and government of all concerned : "EXECUTIVE MANSION, " Washington, DC, July 30, 1863. carried on by civilized powers permit no distinction...captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...citizens, of whatever class, color or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of Nations, and the...captured person, on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism, and a crime against the civilization... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines - Philippines - 1902 - 1128 pages
...of whatsoever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the...captured person on account of his color and for no offense against the laws of war is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...citizens, of whatever class, color or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations, and the...captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism, and a crime against the civilization... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 394 pages
...of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations, and the...captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...principle of Liberty, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. To sell or enslave any captured person on account of his color and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 326 pages
...of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations, and the...captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 pages
...of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations, and the...captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the...captured person, on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of... | |
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It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as carried... 
