The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, Količina 7Encyclopedia Americana Corporation, 1918 |
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... opened his address with a reference to the " awful burden of the nation's fate weighin , on the president . " " Gentlemen , " interrupted Mr. Lincoln , " it is not the fate of the nation that worries me most just now ; it is your pesky ...
... opened his address with a reference to the " awful burden of the nation's fate weighin , on the president . " " Gentlemen , " interrupted Mr. Lincoln , " it is not the fate of the nation that worries me most just now ; it is your pesky ...
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... opened upon Fort Sumter , compelling its surrender on the 14th . The expectation of a relieving fleet probably hastened this attack . See FORT SUMTER . With the news of the attack and surrender the country received President Lincoln's ...
... opened upon Fort Sumter , compelling its surrender on the 14th . The expectation of a relieving fleet probably hastened this attack . See FORT SUMTER . With the news of the attack and surrender the country received President Lincoln's ...
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... opened 10 April 1862 , breached the walls within 24 hours and the fort surrendered 11 April . Gen. Robert Anderson was assigned to the Department of Kentucky 28 May . His head- quarters were fixed at Cincinnati on account of the ...
... opened 10 April 1862 , breached the walls within 24 hours and the fort surrendered 11 April . Gen. Robert Anderson was assigned to the Department of Kentucky 28 May . His head- quarters were fixed at Cincinnati on account of the ...
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... opened at the east with very general dissatisfaction over the long inaction of General McClellan . Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was at Manassas and Centreville with some 50,000 men , but General McClellan , misled by his secret service ...
... opened at the east with very general dissatisfaction over the long inaction of General McClellan . Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was at Manassas and Centreville with some 50,000 men , but General McClellan , misled by his secret service ...
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... opened the Union operations of that year . The first attempt was to cut a canal across the peninsula opposite Vicksburg , which would allow the army to move below Vicksburg . After working on this from 22 January to 7 March , a flood ...
... opened the Union operations of that year . The first attempt was to cut a canal across the peninsula opposite Vicksburg , which would allow the army to move below Vicksburg . After working on this from 22 January to 7 March , a flood ...
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Stran 259 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Stran 332 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 276 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States...
Stran 269 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Stran 204 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Stran 259 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Stran 204 - The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain.
Stran 2 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Stran 268 - Secondly, a misfortune of this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides ; in such a case the rule of law is, that the loss must be apportioned between them, as having been occasioned by the fault of both of them.
Stran 361 - The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and of the militia in the service of the Union.