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CONCORD, N. H., July 31, 1863.
Honorable E. M. STANTON:
Dispatch informing me that 800 Prussian smooth-bore muskets have been order to be sent me is received. It is not what I want. Give me the Springfield rifled musket and I will organize a reliable milit... |
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each other lists of persons enrolled in their respective districts and claiming residence in another, when by comparison it could be determined whether the persons named had been properly enrolled in the district where they resided, or from some cause had ... |
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except by stealth-must have a most important bearing upon the war. One-half of the State of Mississippi falls at once into the hands of the Government. the beef-cattle from the west of the Mississippi can no longer reach the armies of the East, and arms an... |
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of the same kind. I have ordered out the militia forces near the scene of disturbance, and hope to have sufficient force, but much depends upon having a sufficient force promptly on hand. I have applied to General Roberts to detain the six companies of the S... |
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with absolute certainty that we get those who are to go in the precisely legal proportion to those who are not to go. My purpose is to be in my action just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I am charged-of m... |
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1860.
LINCOLN DISTRICTS. ANTI-LINCOLN DISTRICTS.
District Total Conscrip- District Total Conscri
vote ts vote p-ts
required required
Twelfth 22,664 2,013 First 19,194 2,212
Thirteenth 19,698 2,006 Second 17,169 4,146
Fifteenth 25,... |
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22. Enlisted men transferred to the Invalid Corps will be transferred in the same rank as they held in the active service, and will only be so transferred to serve their unexpired time. They may be discharged and re-enlisted in the Invalid Corps, if they s... |
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assigned to companies of the First Battalion. Those of the next degree of physical efficiency, to the companies of the Second Battalion. (See General Orders, Numbers 212, A. G. O., 1863.)
32. The acting assistant provost-marshal-general of a State, or the co... |
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INDIANAPOLIS, August 20, 1863.
Honorable E. M. STANTON:
I report to you the organization this day of four regiments of six-months" men, aggregate 4,000. The Seventh Indiana Cavalry authorized by you has already 600 men in camp and will soon be full.
O. P. MO... |
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by members of the same family that is the basis of the exemption, and it is wholly immaterial whether this contribution be made personally or through substitute.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. C., August 24, 1863.
Bri... |
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There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To such I would say: You desire peace; and you blame me that we do not have it. But how can we attain it? There are but three conceivable ways. First, to suppress the rebellion by force of arms. This I am tryin... |
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fast as I can get the negroes they will be enrolled. The first object was to fill up the old regiments, much reduced by deaths, losses in battle, and desertions. A regiment of artillery and one of infantry are about full at natchez. Lieb's infantry regimen... |
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furnishes a substitute or pays the commutation. He cannot afterward be permitted to retract that waiver.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General.
WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington City, D. C., September 18, 1863.
Major THOMAS M. VINCENT,
... |
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WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., September 18, 1863.
His Excellency HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.:
SIR: I have the honor to inform you that orders have this day been sent to the Board of Enrollment of t... |
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Additional exhibit of credits, State of Michigan, as reported to the Provost-Marshal-General by letter September 21, 1863.
Prior to May 26, 1863:
1 company 23rd Illinois Volunteers...................... 99
2 companies Merrils" Horse (Missouri).................. |
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COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 23, 1863.
Colonel J. B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General:
Your dispatch received. Our accounts stand as follows:
Calls for 1861.................................. 67,365
Calls of 1862................................... 36,858
Calls of 18... |
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published, in reference to the Missouri election, I cannot but think that the orders above referred to are without your personal knowledge, and I take the liberty of calling the subject to your attention and invoking your interposition to countermand them.... |
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year ending June 30, 1863, accompanied with the report of the different quartermasters and assistant superintendent under my control. Their reports contain details of the operation of the military telegraph in the respective departments to which they are ass... |
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At the first regular pay-day, or two months after muster-in, an additional installment of bounty will be paid................. $40
At the first regular pay-day after six months" service an
additional installment of bounty will be paid................. 40
A... |
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The balance reported in the bands of paymasters on June 30, 1862, differs from such balance, as stated in the last annual report, by the sum of $1,360, 453.19, which is announced for as follows:
Errors in the last balances reported during the fiscal year end... |
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rations of rejections in Table Numbers 1 are consequently too high. I have therefore prepared, as an appendix to Table Numbers 1, a statement of the numbers examined and rejected for physical disability, compiled from the reports of the provost-marshals.
Th... |
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The amount paid during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863 (including those for purchases made and services rendered in the preceding fiscal year, and not included in the last annual report) as ascertained from the accounts which have passed the required ... |
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The law of 1808 made provision for the annual expenditure of $200,000 for arming the militia of the States. That sum is insufficient for the wants of the increased population of the country. Two millions of dollars should be annually appropriated for that pu... |
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The department charged with the disbursement of the funds for surveys for military defenses has in addition to its current duties, prepared for military purposes (to which their distribution is necessarily restricted) an aggregate of 8,841 maps, of which 6... |
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[Inclosure.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, January 4, 1864.
To His Excellency the President of the United States:
MR. PRESIDENT: I beg to submit to your consideration the accompanying letter of the Provost-Marshal-General in respect to the provision of th... |
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CIRCULAR
WAR DEPT., ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 3.
Washington, January 12, 1864.
The following instructions concerning credits on the quotas of States and towns are furnished for the information and guidance of all concerned:
Recruits will be credited to... |
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on file in the office of the adjutant-generals of their assistant at the different headquarters located in the State of Missouri, shall be open to the inspection of the General Assembly of Missouri, or of persons commissioned by it, and that copies of such r... |
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Third. You only claim to be excused when Jehovah's government is substituted, which period has not yet arrived.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
B. F. BUTLER,
Major-General, Commanding.
GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENER... |
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expected. This result is of the most gratifying and auspicious character, but it requires no argument to prove that if the re- enlisted veterans are largely counted upon the quotas of the several States, that the Government will come far short of getting 300... |
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by me (you) as absolutely requiring the quota of volunteers from towns to be procured from among their own citizens, respectively:" and you make an argument against this policy. I assure you that my position,as quoted, was not "intended to be understood" as ... |
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one year from the passage of this act, an officer in the War Department, to be called the Second Assistant Secretary of War, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary of War, who shall perfor... |
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that corps that have the right to re-enlist have re-enlisted except the Seventy-ninth New York, which numbers less than 200 men. These regiments will all be filled in due time. I hope that no misunderstanding will arise to check the work. You may be sure of ... |
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The absolute distances at which the projectiles can be used with effect vary with the description and caliber of the gun, and can be ascertained only by consulting the tables of ranges. The prominent points on the approaches to the works should be designat... |
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the enemy's lines; let cavalry expeditions be sent out supplied with it; leave copies at every house possible, and scatter wherever the enemy will be likely to find it. In this way it can soon be distributed throughout the entire South and rebel armies. Many... |
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HEADQUARTERS RECRUITING SERVICE SECOND CORPS,
New York, February 11, 1864.
Colonel JAMES B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General:
COLONEL: I have the honor to submit the following considerations to you in favor of postponing the draft, say until April 10, and exte... |
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TABLE A.-Showing the ratio of enrolled in the first class of the national forces in the several States.
(N. B.-The first class is made up by adding to the number of men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five one-sixth of those between thirty-five and for... |
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basis, and the Commission demonstrates this point by illustrations and examples. I have never known any intelligent person to entertain a doubt as to the fact thus elucidated by the Commission. Having established this point, the Commission, without giving th... |
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exact justice may not be found in the assignment of quotas. This needed no proof, but in the matter under consideration a perfect basis cannot be found, nor can exact justice be dealt out.
To the second: The conclusion is entirely correct; the fact needed ... |
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basis for the assignment of quotas," but I assert, and no one can deny, that no just and equitable basis can be found for the assignment of quotas; and in this war our cause would be lost if all men stood exactly upon the order of their going, and it is inju... |
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WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., February 20, 1864.
Honorable RICHARD WALLACH,
Mayor of Washington, D. C.:
SIR: In reply to your letter of the 15th instant I am directed to state:
First, that the number 5,077 included all repor... |
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WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., February 22, 1864.
His Excellency J. G. SMITH,
Governor of Vermont, Washington, D. C.:
SIR: In reply to your inquiries I have the honor to inform you that the enrollment act, as lately amended b... |
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the extension of time for the payment of Government bounties to volunteers, which passed both houses by a unanimous vote. The Governor cordially approves the resolution and hopes the request therein contained will be granted and that you will use your infl... |
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should be determined. These bills having passed, it is my design to present an estimate covering the claims in the respective States, and to ask Congress to provide for their liquidation and appropriate an adequate sum for their payment. No payment has been ... |
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GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 79.
Washington, February 29, 1864.
COMMANDANTS OF RENDEZVOUS FOR DRAFTED MILITIA.
Any authority which may have been heretofore given for the appointment of commandants of rendezvous for drafted men... |
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Commanding generals of department will communicate with the Navy Department, and cause the men selected for transfer to be sent to the designated stations in such numbers as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy.
W. A. NICHOLS,
Assistant Adjutant-Genera... |
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Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, is assigned to the command of the Armies of the United States.*
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 96.
Washington, March 10, 1864.
ARMS AND CAMP EQUIPAGE OF FURLOUGHED ... |
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The Secretary of War desires that you give the matter early and diligent attention, and that you keep the Department posted about the movements of the parties referred to and the action taken by you to defeat their plans. The employment of the persons name... |
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there is no really loyal newspaper in the State, so that no means exist to set forth loyal views.
A short article with I prepared--nothing but a summary of sicken 24 of the act of February 25, without a word of comment--was refused publication in the Louisvi... |
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entrat Your Excellency to forbear the enforcement of this measure in Kentucky.
It is eminently distasteful and obnoxious to the largest portion of the loyal people of the State, and there is no small danger of its producing an outbreak of a portion of our ... |
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published to-morrow. It has the national ring. Kentucky will do her duty to the Nation. There need be no fears about the enrollment in his State. The law will be obeyed.
S. G. BURBRIDGE,
Brigadier-General, Commanding District of Kentucky.
CIRCULAR
WAR DEPT... |
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from the late draft (see section 13, enrollment act), the sum of $30 shall be paid; said payment to be made in accordance with the rules now governing the payment of reward for deserters. No expenses of apprehension or delivery of deserters will be allowed.
... |
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RECAPITULATION.
Rewards to be paid for arrest of deserters:
For arrest and delivery of a deserter..................... $30.00
Total amounts to be paid in cash to recruits as pay and bounty:
Before leaving general rendezvous.......................... $73.00... |
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within thirty days after the tax list and schedule shall have been placed in this hands; and he shall forthwith report to the Board whether there are in the districts of his parish any buildings available and suitable for school-houses, and shall at all tim... |
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SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 128.
Washington, March 26, 1864.
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54. Colonel M. D. Hardin, Twelfth Pennsylvania Reserves, will at once relieve Brigadier General J. T. Copeland, U. S. Volunteers, in command of the depo... |
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intended for immediate service. To one instance I may properly refer. In France, under Napoleon, when intended for immediate service, the battalions were limited to 300 instead of 1,000 men. My experience in this department fully justified this practice wh... |
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GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 125.
Washington, March 29, 1864.
Furloughs, not to exceed thirty days in each case, to the non- commissioned officers and privates of the Army who may desire to enter the free military school at Phil... |
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the proper chief paymaster, if known to him, otherwise, to the Paymaster-General, for such reference.
V. The chief paymaster of the day pay district will immediate cause the certificates of indebtedness to be placed in the hands of the paymaster of the hos... |
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order that upon the final settlement of the officer's accounts the amount of his indebtedness may be deducted from any pay due home and remitted to the treasurer of the hospital.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
G... |
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during the war all colored persons of suitable age and condition who may offer themselves for enlistment. After enlistment they will be assigned to the Forty-fifth Regiment U. S. Colored Troops and sent to Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Oakman, Thirtieth Regimen... |
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to immediately go on the Mississippi River and take control of the plantation system. Last year the abandoned plantations were taken possession of by me as a necessity, in order to provide labor for the large number of negroes coming within our lines. I was ... |
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appointment shall be concealed, and he shall be discharged without pay, unless the Governor give him a position in the consolidated company to which his men shall have been transferred.
II. Mustering officers will report promptly to the Adjutant- General o... |
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that there was no serious outbreak. Before leaving here I telegraphed to Governor Yates to communicate with me at Terre Haute, but got no reply from him.
The next morning a little before daylight I took a freight train and reached Paris at 8 a. m. on the 4... |
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WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., April 9, 1864.
Colonel JAMES B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General:
COLONEL: I have the honor to submit the following report in reference to a communication addressed to Major J. B. Stonehouse by His ... |
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many of them as he can is unquestionable. The nature of the corps permits and the law sanctions it.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
M. N. WISEWELL,
Colonel and Assistant to Provost-Marshal-General.
Since writing the above a ruling has been ... |
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other$5. Hence the great number of desertion in this department. The black soldiers deserted by the score because their families y shot two men, but that did not stop desertion. Congress can stop it by giving the balck soldier enough to support his family. "... |
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they shall be subjected to no other diminution or loss of pay and allowances than other officers in the military service are under like circumstances. And chaplains who have been absent from duty by reason of wounds or sickness, or when held as prisoners i... |
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WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
April 14, 1864.
GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS,
Springfield, Ill.:
SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a communication from Colonel Loomis, aide-de-camp, asking for a statement of the exact quotas and credits ... |
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on the part of those engaged in said recruiting to commissions as officers or for compensation on account of expenses insured. All supplies will be furnished in accordance with established regulations.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
JAS. B. FRY,
Provost... |
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reckining the period of service from the date of muster-in of the last company. In accordance with this, if the last company of a regiment was mustered into service on the 20th of May, 1861 (that date is considered as the date of original organization and mu... |
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by telegraph, the details of the requisition being sent the same day mail. The contingent of Iowa was received afterward and the orders given in the same way on the 4th instant. The necessity of the greatest dispatch in forwarding the supplies was duly imp... |
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The Army of the Potomac and Lee's army came in collision yesterday near Chancellorsville, and a partial engagement ensued without any definite result. A general battle was expected to take place to-day. Nothing has yet been heard from the field. General Sher... |
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authorized the president to employ as many persons of African descent as he might deem necessary and proper for the suppression of the rebellion, and for that purpose to organize and use the in such manner as he might judge best for the public welfare, and... |
9c3df456306999239ff702315db1593a | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0274 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0274 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0274 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
to position requiring higher qualifications and entitled to a higher rate of pay. To assume that because Mr. Harrison is a person of African descent he shall draw only the pay which this law establishes for the class it obviously fevers to, and be deprived... |
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three years or until sooner discharged, and may include persons of African descent, organized into separate corps. He will make the usual needful requisitions on the appropriate staff bureaus and officers for the proper transportation, organization, supplies... |
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sometimes in a neighbor's territory; more frequently in their own. The practice is notorious."
The witness speaks of Gambia and countries adjoining. a Another mode of procuring slaves is akin to this. They are "panyared," to employ the phrase of the countr... |
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There is no evidence that slaves are bred for sale. The concurrent testimony is against it.
There is abundant testimony in proof that as to negroes offered for sale as slaves and rejected by the slave-dealers on account of their state of health or otherwise,... |
ce43781ddf3a3ef5ff2b970a3eb8828b | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0302 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0302 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0302 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
Mexico, Colombia, New Granada, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, Buenos Ayres, Chilli, Peru, and Bolivia.
Lord Palmerston, speaking in the House of Lords in 1844, gave some of the reasons which stirred the government to move in this matter. He said:
The negroes... |
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was asked, "If the blank of the bill is filled with one and a half to a ton, will it, in your opinion, tend to the abolition of the trade?" Answer. "I am clearly of opinion that it will." a
This witness handed in a table, of which the accuracy was afterward ... |
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board one ship) why they did not go into the watering place at the west end of the Isle of Pines (near Cuba). They replied, that `they had attempted to get in, but got into shoal water." He then asked them what they intended to have done with their slaves if... |
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by Lieutenant General Baron Pamphile de Lacroix, the population of the island is put at 501,000, of whom only 1,000 are set down as white. a In 1825 M. Placide Justin estimates the population at 700,000. b But in 1826 Charles Mackenzie, British consul-gene... |
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As respects Central and South America, any estimate of the number of negroes and their descendants of mixed blood must be founded on data still more uncertain that those which relate to the West Indies. Not only are we without any census of modern date to ai... |
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ten provinces as in those estimated, then the total number of slaves in the Empire of Brazil was in the year 1860 2,655,000.
But inasmuch as the largest proportions of slaves to free persons are to be found in the populous provinces on the Atlantic Coast, an... |
e32639a14902c21824eb1e18c659e3a4 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0329 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0329 UNION AUTHORITIES. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0329 UNION AUTHORITIES.
by the pains of labor in the field, and the child born between the cotton rows, Humane masters, however, were wont to diminish the tacks as pregnancy advanced, and commonly gave three, occasionally four, weeks" exemption from labor after childbirth. The moth... |
c1ddea0c6edf6ac7ca54a6cb560fca37 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0330 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0330 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0330 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
effect. In the first place, none of the cares-those noble cares, that holy thoughtfulness, which lifts the human above the brute parent-are ever incurred here, either by father or mother. The relation, indeed, resembles, so far as circumstances can possibl... |
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these States, that the phase of slavery there existing is sensibly modified, and is divested more by practice, however, than by relaxation of law of some of its most odious features. On small estates especially, slaves in the Border States often have by suff... |
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occurred to her except as a usual thing. Both women expressed the greatest satisfaction that they were allowed to hire themselves. It was sufficiently apparent that nothing short of compulsion would cause either of them to return to what they still called ... |
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Strictly in accordance with the above the Supreme Court has given its opinion in the case already referred to. After reciting that the territory "held in hostility to the United States" has a "defined boundary," a which can be crossed only by force, the co... |
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found their hopes of future peace on the expectation that a fugitive slave law will be more stringently enforced in the future than in the past-one the vain dream that Northern spirit, whether flushed with victory or maddened by defeat, will find no occupa... |
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masters, leaving them slave-masters still, can we expect that they will abstain from plotting foreign war, that they may gain by it? And if they succeed in the treasonable plot, can we suppose that they will refrain from seeking their own advantage by an all... |
c49af49f96e4fd62a0bf45b9de50402e | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0365 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0365 UNION AUTHORITIES. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0365 UNION AUTHORITIES.
be assured of his liberty while there remains a spot within the Union where he can be held as a slave.
If we would act as statesmen, having in view the peace and safety of our country through all future time, we must meet the great difficulty before us broad... |
eebeab50980f11060d4df9957ad0be79 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0366 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0366 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0366 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
The right referred to is vested in the National Legislature. If technical proof of this be demanded it is to be found in a few brief propositions:
1. The Constitution (section 8) confers on Congress certain essential powers; as to collect taxes, without wh... |
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Some may believe that the effect of such commingling will be to introduce amalgamation between the races; others, that such amalgamation is the natural and proper solution of the problem. We believe neither the one nor the other.
In the first place, such evi... |
599aeb9c3fba0968443bb890a41e224a | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0379 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0379 UNION AUTHORITIES. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0379 UNION AUTHORITIES.
With time, as civilization advances, these Christian graces of meekness and long suffering will be rated higher than the world rates them now. With time, if we but treat these people in a Christian spirit, we shall have our reward. The softening influence, o... |
033f6bcad08b8c862305926d0d271a38 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0380 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0380 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0380 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
There is an additional reason why a considerable portion of the Union armies should be made up of persons of African descent. The transformation of the slave society of the South into free society, no longer properly a question, has become a necessity of o... |
ca3167d7e41e65c56d73d667481f52ff | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0384 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0384 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0384 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
I will then proceed to Vicksburg, to accompany General Slocum to Natchez, where his presence is necessary, to examine personally into the affairs of that district.
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C.,... |
07544bd710694bcf515d758232909109 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0385 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0385 UNION AUTHORITIES. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0385 UNION AUTHORITIES.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May 18, 1864.
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Five regiments certainly ready this week, five the next, and five the succeeding, but we were twelve days of the twenty without transportation or supplies, and now some of the office... |
79093c946a1f06564ee7b778845183d4 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0386 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0386 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0386 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
putting in the right ones, there can be no serious difficulty in securing the co-operation of citizens for the purpose of making a correct enrollment.
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost-Marshal-General.
Operator will send similar dispatch to following:
Captain William ... |
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be made by the President, or issued or proposed to be issued by the State Department or any Department of the Government.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
(Sent to New York press and to Charles Francis Adams, London, and William L. Dayton, Paris.)
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washing... |
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Strict diligence, attention, and confidence is desired in the execution of this order, and you are requested to give it your personal attention and employ your best officers.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
(Similar orders to General Cadwalader, Philadel... |
d5e90cbc7be6c487704730f50a8a9653 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/125/0390 | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0390 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. | War of the Rebellion: Serial 125 Page 0390 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
May 18, 1864-6.30 p.m.
Major-General DIX,
New York:
Your telegram of 5.40 is just received. A great national crime has been committed by the publication. The editors, proprietors and publishers, responsible and irresponsible, are in law qui... |
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