Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volume 3 |
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... Italy , Jan. 7 , 1882 . Danbury is now a city widely known for its extensive manufactures of hats , and has an assessed property valuation ex- ceeding $ 11,500,000 . The population in 1890 was 16,552 ; in 1900 , 16,537 . Dane , NATHAN ...
... Italy , Jan. 7 , 1882 . Danbury is now a city widely known for its extensive manufactures of hats , and has an assessed property valuation ex- ceeding $ 11,500,000 . The population in 1890 was 16,552 ; in 1900 , 16,537 . Dane , NATHAN ...
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... Italy . in sugar plantations , and the principal Garibaldi requested Daniel to annex Nice crops are sugar , cotton , coffee , indigo , to the United States , but Daniel declined and rum . The climate is unhealthful at on the ground that ...
... Italy . in sugar plantations , and the principal Garibaldi requested Daniel to annex Nice crops are sugar , cotton , coffee , indigo , to the United States , but Daniel declined and rum . The climate is unhealthful at on the ground that ...
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... Italy , Scotland , Germany , system of boarding out the dependent Switzerland , and other European coun- children of the state . The methods of tries have their several modifications of this society have been sustained , in the the ...
... Italy , Scotland , Germany , system of boarding out the dependent Switzerland , and other European coun- children of the state . The methods of tries have their several modifications of this society have been sustained , in the the ...
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... Italy , but six of them have seen their thrones overturned and their countries disappear from the map of Eu- - The flower of the youth of the nations of continental Europe are conscripted from marvellously rich in all which adds to the ...
... Italy , but six of them have seen their thrones overturned and their countries disappear from the map of Eu- - The flower of the youth of the nations of continental Europe are conscripted from marvellously rich in all which adds to the ...
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... ITALY . Ambassador Extraor- dinary and Plenipotentiary , Rome . JAPAN . Alfred E. Buck , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary , Tokio . KOREA . NETHERLANDS . Stanford Newel , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ...
... ITALY . Ambassador Extraor- dinary and Plenipotentiary , Rome . JAPAN . Alfred E. Buck , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary , Tokio . KOREA . NETHERLANDS . Stanford Newel , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ...
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Page 226 - ... respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 225 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 226 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Page 230 - And I further declare and make known, that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 225 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 226 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as 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...
Page 225 - ... 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 or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 226 - 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 226 - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : " ' Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army ; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States,...
Page 226 - ... against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not...