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...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ... proper ones. Iowa, having an entire Union delegation, will be one of the States the attempt will be made, if upon any. The Gover- nor doubtless has... ...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl-... ...or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Government; all who have left judicial stations under the Unite... ...ll who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutena... ...transfer of McClellan’s army from the Potomac, where it had confronted the Confederates at Manassas. See H. J. Raymond: Life of Lincoln, p. 772] whic...

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...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ...e of Academus. But Dicaearchus writes that there were two Arcadians in the army of Castor and Pollux, the one called Echedemus and the other Marathus;... ...they took that none should suffer any injury, though there was so great an army within the walls; for the phrase anakos ekhein is used of those who lo... ...But Romulus seemed rather to act by counsel, and to show the sagacity of a statesman, and in all his dealings with their neighbors, whether relating t... ...ferable, were he not chastised, first rose up in arms, and with a powerful army advanced against him. Romulus likewise prepared to receive him; but wh... ...nterprise; but Sphaerus assures us that there were but twenty-eight of the confederates at first; perhaps there is some mystery in the number, which c... ... Athenians the glory of alike surpassing their enemies in valor, and their confederates in wisdom. As soon as the Persian armada arrived at Aphetae, E... ...his own dominions; and in the mean time would cause delays, and hinder the confederates from pursuing him. Xerxes no sooner heard this, but, being ver...

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...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republican, s... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE... ...to pursue in regard to the 218 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five Confederate States. “Adopted by the Convention of the State of Virginia, Ri... ...rto recognition has been moved only on the assump- tion that the so-called Confederate States are de facto a self- sustaining power. Now, after long f... ...ation, in the character of 249 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five confederate States, was already invoking recognition, aid, and intervention...

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...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ... a condition of affairs infinitely more complex, in which every prince and statesman is something of a servant and every intelligent human being somet... ...d come across a vast interval since his time, into the very chamber of the statesman. 2 2 2 2 2 In Machiavelli’s outlook the interest of womanhood was... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...gured muslin. T o me in these habiliments they seemed not so much books as confederated old ladies. My mother was also very punctual with her religiou... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... .... But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it some of these days.” He referred to the organis... ... not that I had cleaned up my life but that she had. We called each other “confederate” I remember, and made during our brief engagement a series of v... ... all after the same thing, and why aren’t we working together?” “Are you a Confederate?” I asked suddenly. “That’s a secret nobody tells,” he said. “W...

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...rtridge Papers – Swift 8 for in relating affairs that so nearly concern the Confederates, and consequently this Kingdom, I am forced to confine my- s... ...point less prudent than common almanack-makers, who are so wise to wonder in generals, and talk dubiously, and leave to the reader the business of int... ...ns in the following year. The new King makes yet little change either in the army or the ministry; but the libels against his grandfather, that fly ab... ...ers – Swift 10 of Tuscany, who is now about sixty-one years old. The French army acts now wholly on the defensive, strongly fortify d in their trench... ...on with which he is now in so strict an alliance. But the other kingdoms and states of Europe have treated me with more candor and gen- erosity. If I ...

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...esolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasse... ...the courage of a daring man; he lacks mind and breadth of view. Like other generals to whom mili- tary common-sense, the natural boldness of those who... ...be three times: “Die or retake the village; it is a question of saving the army; the bridges are destroyed.” The Author. Now, I must tell you that the... ...haud, he’s a trained hound! Ha, the brigand!” “Ought to have stayed in the army, a swaggerer like that,” said Tonsard; “he is only fit to deal with en... ...yielded his “corps d’armee” to the Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of 89 Balzac the Loire) cou... ...e not arrest them,” said Sibilet. “They think they frighten you! They have confederates at Ville-aux-Fayes; for even the prosecuting attorney seems to... ...ion which to-day threat- 143 Balzac ens every man, the man of genius, the statesman, the mod- ern agriculturalist,—in short, all innovators. This las... ...officials.” Rated in the community as an able man, Sarcus was the accepted statesman of Madame Soudry’s salon; you can readily imagine that he was the... ...utist named Vermut, a chemist, who was more of a chemist than Sarcus was a states- man, or Lupin a singer, or Gourdon the elder a scientist, or his br...

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...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ...t, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town which com... ...h was running on night shift to fill an order of trac- tors for the Polish army. It hummed like a million bees, glared through its wide windows like a... ...ttle of Gettysburg and doesn’t know it’s over yet—thought I was one of the Confederates, I guess, from the way he looked at me— and Rip van Winkle too... ... there’d been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box! At seven per each and every diem! Gosh!” “Yuh, I’ve he... ...four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, and the duffers that lie d... ... bring in any, they remain privates. The pastor and superintendent rank as generals. And ev- erybody has got to give salutes and all the rest of that ...

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...hteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was an imp... ...f field hospitals af- ter the battle—hospitals and the tents of commanding generals. The wounds of the day were being bound up, the dead were being co... ...rowding the Sault Sainte Marie. For her and because of her all the Central States, all the Great Northwest roared with traffic and industry; sawmills ... ...ies, he set his feet toward conquest, and mingled with the marchings of an army that surged forever forward and back; now in mer- ciless assault, beat... ...liance of a multitude of lights. From each street doorway was pour- ing an army of “shoppers,” women for the most part; and these—since the store cate... ...ita- bly dressed in blue serge, a quill tooth-pick behind his ear, a Grand Army button in his lapel. He and Jadwin were intimates. The two had come to... ...lling you this much—that he’s not the least important member of the United States Lega- tion. Well, now and then he is supposed to send me what the re... .... Crookes—who from the first had managed and handled the operations of his confederates—knew very well that if he now bought in all the wheat his cliq...

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...s to make his son a government clerk. At the beginning of this century the army presented too many posts not to leave various vacancies in the governm... ...stood its mission. We can see, any day, the great law of- ficers, attorney-generals, peers of France in omnibuses, judges who live on their salaries, ... ...more useless to relate the conversation which took place between the three confederates at the “Cheval Rouge,” because the arrangements there conclude... ...ve water until the close of 1840. Up to the present time none of the three confederates had flinched or groaned. Each felt his strength and knew his d... ...ons in high society may not be aware that barristers are to attorneys what generals 139 Balzac are to marshals. There exists a line of demarcation, s... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha... ...o displayed more science and calculation in merely get- ting a living than statesmen had shown in governing Spain for a hundred years, he, la Peyrade,... ... can rise to the height of your natural genius, whatever its spark may be. Statesmen, kings even, will admit you to their most secret thoughts; you wi... ...nged like this, and command the light; to have at your orders an invisible army, always ready, always devoted, always submissive; to know the other si...

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...is ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook, while Marius led the army, to spy out the enemy’s camp. Procuring a Celtic dress, and acquaintin... ... end, when the slaves whom Marius had freed at his landing to increase his army, being made not only his fellow-soldiers in the war, but also now his ... ... pretending friendship, and putting him in hopes of a peace, corrupted his army, and Scipio could not be made sensible of this, although often forewar... ...ar of being en- compassed, and yet being ashamed to desert his friends and confederates in their extreme danger, was thus forced to sit still, and see... ...esired him immediately to put their designs in execution. And when all the confederates had con- sented to it, they provided a messenger who brought f... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ...ectly into Boeotia, and at the same time sent to their allies for aid. The confederates were very tardy in the business, and unwilling to engage, but ... ... ascendant which he had over Crassus; for he, the wealthiest among all the states- men of his time, and the most eloquent and greatest too, who had lo... ...d in the administration of justice, In deciding controversies of kings and States; and where he himself could not be present in person, he gave commis...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...d his first war experience in the Belmont fight, as a pilot on a boat in the Confederate ser vice. I had often had a curiosity to know how a green ha... ...hat they forgot to look after their horses, which were car ried away by his confederates while he was preaching. But the stealing of horses in one St... ...ssissippi Mark T wain 167 stated that he had more than a thousand sworn confederates , all ready at a moment’s notice to support any of the gang ... ...th a pocket knife, soon forced us to feel that we were not surrounded by the generals, colo nels, and majors of the old world; and that the dinner ho... ...nd sometimes marched in procession around the stage?” “Do you mean the Roman army?—those six sandaled roustabouts in nightshirts, with tin shields and... ... T wain 285 place. This seemed odd to me, for when I retired from the rebel army in ’61 I retired upon Louisiana in good order; at least in good enou...

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... music’ among them. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States, were extempo- raneous, and allusive to events passing around them. ... ... in another to a spectator. The course of his verses resembles that of the army he describes, Hoid’ ar’ isan hosei te puri chthon pasa nemoito. “They ... ...every episode and part of story. If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order. If he has funeral ga... ...as by Dido, and Rinaldo by 37 Pope Armida. If Achilles be absent from the army on the score of a quarrel through half the poem, Rinaldo must absent h... ...of men express’d The counsels labouring in his artful breast. “Friends and confederates! with attentive ear Receive my words, and credit what you hear... ...end; War soon shall kindle, and great Ilion bend; Since vengeful goddesses confederate join To raze her walls, though built by hands divine.” To whom ... ...wful silence broke; The heavens attentive trembled as he spoke: “Celestial states! immortal gods! give ear, Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hea... ...thus the council moved. “Monarch of nations! whose superior sway Assembled states, and lords of earth obey, The laws and sceptres to thy hand are give... ...and this counsel gave: “O thou, bold leader of the T rojan bands! And you, confederate chiefs from foreign lands! What entrance here can cumbrous char...

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...ent acts. But, recently, five con federated Kings, who had no business to confederate, had been informed by a kindly Northern Power that there was a ... ...man. Now it is men. Better. The tall man said that they will loose a great army to punish someone somewhere–the news goes to Pindi and Peshawur. Ther... ... Gods’, who sent it for a plague, alone know. A mad ness ate into all the Army, and they turned against their of ficers. That was the first evil, bu... ...al and four clasps and the medal of an Order, for my captains, who are now generals, remembered me when the Kaisar i Hind had accomplished fifty year... ...unt. ‘For once in all my days I have met a true prophet–who was not in the Army.’ Father and son swung round together: the old man sitting as erect as... ...urban, stalked past, returning from a visit to one of the independent Sikh States, where he had been singing the ancient glories of the Khalsa to Coll... ... what concern this fakir has with the boy, who is probably his dupe or his confederate,’ Bennett began. ‘We can not allow an English boy–Assuming tha... ...e India Council; and here gather all the sub sub agents of half the Native States. Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely locked than... ...o the East as possible–just to show that they were never among the Western States. You do not know the Hills?’ He scratched with a twig on the earth. ...

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... leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the meeting of the States-General. We do not know 22 Essays: Book the First what part he took... ...d. I could have desired much that the private gain of the soldiers of your army, and the necessity for satisfying them, had not deprived you, especial... ...—who with incredible bravery alone sus- tained the power of his victorious army. Then it was that 58 Essays: Book the First consideration and respect... ... a like effect: witness the people of Thebes, who, having put two of their generals upon trial for their lives for having continued in arms beyond the... ...e carried through the territory of Verona, an enemy’s country, most of the army were inclined to demand safe-conduct from the Veronese; but Theodoro T... ...ve them as friends to the people of Rome, and to enter the town, as into a confederate city, without any manner of hostility, of which he gave them al... ...t of the world where the Portu- guese subdued the Indians, they found some states where it was a universal and inviolable law amongst them that every ... ...e contrary, men very proper for public business, great captains, and great statesmen very learned withal. And, as to the philosophers, a sort of men r... ...inters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, and generals of armies; at Athens they learned to speak well: here to do well; ...

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...Excerpt: BEDFORD. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry?s death! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne?er lost a king of so much worth...

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...eavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge t... ...nd whilst a field should be dispatch’d and fought, You are disputing of your generals: One would have lingering wars with little cost; Another would f... ... fight it out. BEDFORD: Gloucester, why doubt’st thou of my forwardness? An army have I muster’d in my thoughts, Wherewith already France is overrun.... ... enraged he flew: The French exclaim’d, the devil was in arms; All the whole army stood agazed on him: His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit A Talb... ...ope quake. Messenger: So you had need; for Orleans is besieged; The English army is grown weak and faint: The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply, And h... ...n’s grace, His new come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc, Nor any of his false confederates. BEDFORD: ’Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began, ... ...ene iv 76 With letters of commission from the king. For know, my lords, the states of Christendom, Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils, Hav...

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... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ...re that of skil- ful compromise, and in the conditions of modern life, the statesman is likely to succeed best who possesses second- ary qualities to ... ...supplied with arms, if not emp- tied by treacherous practices; the regular army of insig- nificant strength, dispersed over an immense surface, and de... ...olition war.” But when he went so far as to counter- mand the acts of some generals in the field, looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the dis... ...ed, the second at Bull Run. But when, after that battle, the Con- federate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...ln: V ol One vaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be ... ... the slaves free as they went on; he dealt too leniently with unsuccessful generals; he should have put down all factious opposition with a strong han... ...t he was shot.” He was shot heading a gallant charge of his regiment…. The Confederates replied to a request of his friends for his body that they had...

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...s. 6 The Country Doctor His life had been so blameless that no man in the army, not even the general himself, could approach him without an involunta... ...the child of his company; he was alone in the world, so he had adopted the army for his fatherland, and the regiment for his family. V ery rarely, the... ...took after him. Men like Genestas are met with now and again in the French army; natures that show themselves to be wholly great at need, and relapse ... ... dwindled away as mine increased. I determined to make him my deputy and a confederate in my schemes of benevolence. Yes, in the first place, I endeav... ...eep a balance on the right side of the balance-sheet. This thought has let states with a limited territorial basis like T yre, Carthage, Venice, Holla... ...ion of scientific formu- lae. No one need fear, however, to call himself a statesman, for his actions and motives cannot be justly estimated; his real... ...dent, the masses square the account after their fashion by upsetting it. A statesman ought always to imag- ine Justice with the poor at her feet, for ... ...and went into it. I looked round and saw a score of 88 The Country Doctor generals and officers of high rank, all of them men who, without flattery, ... ...animal satisfaction expressed in his face; and thunderous snores came from generals who lay muffled up in ragged cloaks. The whole barn was lighted by...

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...d since under the Director-General, the Rex-Chancellor Oxensterne, and his Generals: collected and gathered together, at spare hours, by Colonel Rober... ... Scott “ A few days after the battle of Tippermuir, when Montrose with his army was encamped at Collace, an entertainment was given by him to his offi... ...f the bold measure which they had adopted, by sending into England a large army to the assistance of the Parliament, were determined on their part to ... ... such a diversion as should at least compel the recall of General Leslie’s army out of England, if it did not recover a great part of Scot- land to th... ...e other powers, I even took on for a time with their High Mightinesses the States of Holland.” “ And how did their service jump with your humour?” aga... ...befit any other tongue than mine own.” CHAPTER III. For pleas of right let statesmen vex their head, Battle’s my business, and my guerdon bread; And, ... ...of Sweden, and entertains such a suitable contempt for the base mechanical States of Holland, would not have hesitated to embrace the cause of King Ch... ...with, and drawing the sword against, their neighbours, allies, and ancient confederates.” “It is to my brother,” said Allan, “it is to the eldest son ... ...er Scott and scarce were they again united, ere Argyle and his associ- ate generals were informed, that the royalists, having sud- denly disappeared f...

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...ecrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost, inst... ...th wise men at weak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders, in popular states; but with senates, and princes less; and more ever upon the first ... ...asts of wind, and secret swellings of seas before a tempest, so are there in states: —Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet, fraudesque et op... ...es rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deit... ...mmutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced ... ... it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but ... ...; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be. The army of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was such a vast sea of peo... ...ast sea of people, as it did somewhat astonish the commanders in Alexander’s army; who came to him therefore, and wished him to set upon them by night... ... Secondly, let them be prest, and ready to give aids and suc cors, to their confederates; as it ever was with the Romans; insomuch, as if the confede...

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...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...

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...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...ANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’... ...R OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the public print... ...nchester represent Jackson’s force variously at 30,000 to 60,000. With him Generals Ewell and Longstreet.” The high figures erroneous, of course. Do y... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., August 14, 1862. OFFICER in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: It is believed that a Dr. J. J. ... ... slavery—the bone we are fighting over—and the full reinstatement of every Confederate citizen in all the rights of citizenship in our common country....

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the libertie...

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...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...y desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this power of self- preserva... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...the Influence of the Executive Government External security of the Union – Army of six thousand men – Few ships – The President has no opportunity of ... ...frages of a great people; and this difficulty is enhanced in a republic of confederate States, where local influences are apt to preponderate. The mea... ...that of the justiciable parties is augmented. The aim of the legislator in confederate States ought therefore to be to render the position of the cour... ... but in the very nature of Fed- eral Governments. We have observed that in confederate peoples it is especially necessary to consolidate the judicial ...

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...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...m it each man’s simple duty to face death unhesitatingly, so the ‘glorious army of martyrs’ had, for the most part, joined the Church with the expecta... ...Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. ... ...mpire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of states, the whole of which together would hardly equal one prov- ince of th... ...as held at the Isthmus of Corinth, and attended by depu- ties from all the states of Greece to consider of the best means of defense. The ships of the... ...aves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rite... ...xes. They drew themselves up in the form of a wedge and ‘The gallant Swiss confederates then They prayed to God aloud, And He displayed His rainbow f... ...f Arnold von Winkelried, and the other dis- tinguished achievements of the confederates, and masses are sung for the souls of those who were slain. No...

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...lon. A brave general he was, and well he and his soldiers fought the Roman army! So well, that whenever in that war the Roman soldiers saw a great clo... ...avest was Caractacus, or Caradoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol d... ... sword, seventy thousand Romans in a few days. Suetonius strengthened his army, and advanced to give them battle. They strengthened their army, and d... ...people, established themselves in another; and gradually seven kingdoms or states arose in England, which were called the Saxon Heptarchy. The poor Br... ...e castle, took it, and then called the two Despensers home. Upon this, the confederate lords and the Welshmen went over to Bruce. The King encountered... ...ied him to come out on Wakefield Green, and fight them then and there. His generals said, he had best wait until his gallant son, the Earl of March, c... ...tinent of Europe, occasioned by the reigning Princes of little quarrelling states in Italy having at various times married into other Royal families, ... ...the distinguished men who flourished in it. Apart from the great voyagers, statesmen, and scholars, whom it produced, the names of Bacon, Spenser,, a... ...h the greatest vigour, against the whole power of France, under its famous generals Conde and Turenne, and in sup port of the Protestant religion. ...

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...ects, and ran into debt, thinking that soon he should be in the 11 Balzac army, and none of his creditors would run after him. David still possessed ... ...good foreman?” returned Cerizet. “I am an orphan, I shall be drawn for the army next year, and if I get a bad number who is there to pay some one else... ...ried Kolb, “but not ein vort from me shall dey traw. Haf I not peen in der army, and know my orders?” “Well, you are warned. March, and ask M. Petit-C... ...or gave Petit-Claud his confi- dence, the tall Cointet paid a visit to his confederate. “T ry to give old Sechard a lesson,” he said. “He is the kind ... ...ess voluntary prisoner. There stood old Sechard, the tall Cointet, and his confederate, the puny limb of the law, three men representing three phases ... ...ewell speeches. “Well, well, we are done for now,” Cointet muttered in his confederate’s ear. Petit-Claud, thunderstruck by Lucien’s suc- cess, amazed... ... at that time a treaty was being negotiated between Russia and Sweden. The States-General insisted that Charles XII. should make peace (much as they t... ...ecretary’s keeping; but when the time came for laying the draft before the States- General, a trifling difficulty arose; the treaty was not to be foun... ... General, a trifling difficulty arose; the treaty was not to be found. The States-General believed that the Minister, pan- dering to the King’s wishes...

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...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ...irected their views to the military profession. In such a case, the king’s army is naturally that to which a young man’s expectations turn. But to wai... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...- lending friend could exist “in Oxford-street;” and, at the same time, he states, as circumstances drawn from my descrip- tion, but, in fact, pure co... ...had often heard it described; she saw, in apprehension, the savage band of confederate butchers, issuing from the profound solitudes of the forest, in... ...nner which now floated in Europe. Beyond him ran the long line of imperial generals,—from 272 Memorials, and Other Papers Wallenstein, the magnificen... ...he expulsion of Polynices, the younger son, from Thebes; his return with a confederate band of princes for the recovery of his rights; the death of th...

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...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ...are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the commercial body, none receive an elabo- rate, and what is mean... ...particular fact so well as Sir William Waller’s) that as early as 1647 the army had too effectually subverted the just relations between itself and pa... ... them to private interpretations—or to dispense with them. As to his major-generals of counties, who figure in most histories of England as so many Al... ...as de Quincey questionably wrong, and grossly wrong: Cromwell never had an army at all approaching to the number of eighty thou- sand. Now here is a s... ...tinately haunted his mind that all the kings and rulers of the earth would confederate in every age against his works, and would hunt them out for ext... ...1 On which account, I am the more struck by the ignoble argument of those statesmen who have contended in the House of Commons that such and such cla...

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...has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object bef... ...the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division among th... ...ates government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division among the States and the breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; bu... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ..., one after another, com- plaining of the contractors who were robbing the army, of the commanders who did not know how to command the army, and of th... ...here was no blame to England for that. But the Nashville, belonging to the Confederates, should not have been allowed into English waters. It was usel... ...divided. When the Federal troops pre- vailed, Kentucky was loyal; when the Confederate troops prevailed, Kentucky was rebellious. The condition in Mis... ...n- tioned, passed the following resolution:— “Whereas, the war against the Confederate States is un- 341 Trollope constitutional and repugnant to civ...

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... Gravelines (1558) Egmont made a repu- tation as one of the most brilliant generals in Europe, and became the idol of his countrymen. When in 1559 a n... ...t. Never let me hear such words again. Full well I know that the policy of statesmen rarely maintains truth and fidel- ity; that it excludes from the ... ...iately on their guard the moment he was for overstep- ping his bounds. The states were down upon him at once; for every province, however small, had i... ...y, nor increase their number, without the consent of the nobles and of the states. Mark that! Nor shall he alter the constitution of the country. Soes... ...ive place to him. I know his blood-thirsty dis- position, and he brings an army with him. Egmont. To harass the provinces anew? The people will be exa... ...er this preamble he is of opin- ion that without soldiers, without a small army indeed,—I shall always cut a sorry figure here! We did wrong, he says,... ...ple and nobles, citizens and peasants; he therefore sends, with a powerful army, the Duke of Alva. Machiavel. Alva? Regent. Y ou are surprised. Machia... ...rough the French, both royalists and heretics; through the Swiss and their confederates; main- tained the strictest discipline, and accomplished with ...

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...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ...art of the world—in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had oppressed every large-m... ...ened. The woods were said to be full of soldiers who had deserted from the army, and I had been told that the first thing a deserter did to a Negro bo... ...ies conquered. Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest. ... .... Morris K. Jessup, of New York. Dr. Curry is a native of the South, an ex-Confederate soldier, yet I do not believe there is any man in the country w... ... the members of his Cabinet, many foreign ministers, and a large number of army and navy officers, many of whom had distinguished themselves in the wa... ...brought their wives or some members of their families. Several promi- nent generals came, including General Shafter and General Joseph Wheeler, who we...

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...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith... ...ng a man. That word ‘kill’ is sprinkled *Alferez. This rank in the Spanish army is, or was, on a level with the modern sous-lieutenant of France. 101... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...at they have watched the same individual stratum or phenomenon, exhibiting states removed from each other by depths of many thousand years; how could ... ...mbled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past, awake no mor... ... combinations are found eminently successful. Having ob- tained from every confederate a pledge, in some shape or other, that he will give them his su...

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...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ... rela- tions, may be presented by you in chronological order, and that the states of life and feeling which afforded the examples that influenced you,... ...his sort naturally made an impression on the boy, and led him into similar states of mind. In fact, he came to the thought that he might immediately a... ...amusing to both of us.” Then she brought out some boxes, in which I saw an army of little soldiers piled one upon the other, of which I must needs con... ...ung a couple of the remaining agate balls with force into the midst of her army. Unhappily I hit the queen, who had hitherto, during our regular game,... ...about upon the golden lances. It was my fierce desire to destroy her whole army. She, on the other hand, not idle, sprang at me, and gave me a box on ... ...ught to have prayed for a blessing on us, and to have gone out to meet the generals and officers with tokens of honor and joy, and the wearied soldier... ...oy, I liked to hear related the history of these rebels,—Fettmilch and his confederates,—how they had become dissatisfied with the government of the c...

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...ghter.] “By means of Farinata degli Uberti, the Guelfi were conquered by the army of King Manfredi, near the river Arbia, with so great a slaughter, t... ...ontefeltro, who then governed it, to defeat with great slaughter the French army by which it had been besieged. See G. Villani, l. vii. c. 81. The ... ...is introduced in the Paradise, Canto XVIII. v. 13. And those the rest.] The army of Manfredi, which, through the treachery of the Apulian troops, wns... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d... ...of Marseilles, and hastened on to the attack of Afranius and Petreius, the generals of Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Albe... ...ne of the wisest and most valorous knights the best speaker, the most expert statesman, the most renowned and enterprising, man of his age in Italy, ... ...s home ‘Gainst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Q... ...ch he led to; and resum’d: “All grappling bonds, that knit the heart to God, Confederate to make fast our clarity. The being of the world, and mine ow...

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...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...afe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three adva... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...given. It no doubt may be said in excuse for this that the presence of the army round Washington caused, at that period, special inconvenience; and th... ...ho is or would be the present owner, bears high command in the army of the Confederates, and knows well by what tenure he holds or is likely to hold h... ... near Somerset, toward the south of the State. General Zollicoffer, with a Confederate army numbering, it was supposed, some eight thousand men, had a... ... killed, while his army was cut to pieces and dispersed; the cannon of the Confederates were taken, and their camp seized and destroyed. Their rout wa...

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...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ... forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding parts of ... ...onal” Authority, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall bet... ...gesting here that the League of Free Nations shall practically control the army, navy, air forces, and armament industry of every nation in the world.... ...- rine for submarine and cast gun for gun, to sweep all her youth into her army, to subdue her trade, her literature, her education, her whole life to... ... happened in America in the midst of the last century between Federals and Confederates must not happen again on a larger scale between white Eu- rope... ...had victory within their grasp— and failed to grip it. The British cavalry generals wasted the great invention of the tanks as a careless child breaks... ... or before the eighteenth century, regardless of the fact that a man or an army or an aeroplane can get in a few minutes or a few hours to points that... .... Wells als have done no better; indeed, they have not done so well as the generals of the Allies in this respect. But after the war, if the world doe...

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...s beating. After that he will be as se curely brave as any veteran in the army—and there will not be a shade nor suggestion of personal merit in it... ... better things than that, and it did not enthuse over that crude Salvation Army eloquence. It was courteous to Holme— but cool. It did not pet him, di... ...e. And this argument is also applicable in the case of others of the great army of the Unrevealed. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to ca... ...at talions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who lead them to battle. Mark T wain 59 Y.M. That could be insti... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...ours later he was the one subject of conversation in the world, the gilded generals and admirals and governors were discussing him, all the kings and ... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but it a... ...d cop pers; being sued himself for shillings and coppers; and act ing as confederate to a neighbor who tried to rob the town of its rights in a cert...

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...unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in m...

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...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...or safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereign- ties. However extraordinar... ...mies of each other unless their common weakness forces them to league in a confederate republic, and their constitu- tion prevents the differences tha... ...t the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country al- most as so... ...th the principles or propensities of the other state. The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; an... ...er which they suppose may be exerted to the prejudice of their rights. The army under such circumstances may usefully aid the magistrate to suppress a... ... Union, but would not militate against their being all comprehended in one confederate government. And this is the true question, in the discussion of... ...pposition to a general Union of the States, that he explicitly treats of a confederate republic as the expedient for extending the sphere of popular g...

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...ere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mentio... ...Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed ... ...nd Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fal... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...regi- ment if all had been men capable of bearing arms—furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine ... ...anted. This was the same Ewell who acquired considerable reputa- tion as a Confederate general during the rebellion. He was a man much esteemed, and d... ...s in the company of Captain Holmes, afterwards a Lieutenant-general in the Confederate army. I never came in contact with him in the war of the Rebell...

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...Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denmark defeated. — Death of Mansfel... ...ons. — Wallenstein deprived of the Command. — Gustavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Inv... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...he Lech. — Defeat and Death of Tilly. — Gustavus takes Munich. — The Saxon Army invades Bohemia, and takes Prague. — Distress of the Emperor. — Secret... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...een citizen and citizen, and be- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange co... ...tter of domestic policy, and that aid was readily granted to the religious confederate which would have been denied to the mere neighbour, and still m... ...med subjects of Austria met, or expected to meet with from their religious confederates in the rest of Germany, was no small cause of their confidence... ...s; and that, whatever conquests were made, should be divided among all the confederates, in proportion to the contingent furnished by each. The direct...

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...adin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . ...

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...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...5 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactic... ...ort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table of Names... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ... international jihad con- federation. In Sudan, he established an “Islamic Army Shura” that was to serve as the coordinating body for the consortium o... ...ng this “landmarks plot,” the FBI in June 1993 arrested Rahman and various confederates. 7 As a result of the investigations and arrests, the U.S.Atto... ...ile T enet was clearly the leader of the CIA, the intelligence community’s confederated structure left open the ques- tion of who really was in charge... ... for their roles in past terrorist attacks there. Ressam also acquired new confederates. He promised to help a New Y ork–based partner,Abdelghani Mesk...