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" Unless the law of nations is a dead letter, the late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts, and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conqueror.... "
The Solid South: Speech of Emory Speer of Georgia, December 19, 1902 - Page 12
by Emory Speer - 1903 - 24 pages
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History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States

William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 716 pages
...late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts, and broke all the > ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new States or remain as conquered provinces. Congress—the Senate and House of Representatives, with the concurrence of the President—is the...
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History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States

William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 726 pages
...the late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts, and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new States or remain as conquered provinces. Congress — the Senate and House of Representatives, with the concurrence of the President — is...
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Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield, Volume 2

James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 778 pages
...late war between the two acknowledged belligerents severed their original contracts and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new States or remain as conquered provinces." This was the theory which Mr. Stevens had steadily maintained from the beginning of the war, and which...
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Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...the late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new states or remain as conquered provinces. Congress — the Senate and House of Representatives — with the concurrence of the President, is...
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Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 774 pages
...the late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new states or remain as conquered provinces. Congress — the Senate and House of Representatives — with the concurrence of the President, is...
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political ..., Volume 2

James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...late war between the two acknowledged belligerents severed their original contracts and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new states or remain as conquered provinces. . . . Suppose," he added, with indirect reference to the President, "as some dreaming theorists imagine,...
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The Republican Party and Its Leaders: A History of the Party from Its ...

Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 pages
...late war between the two acknowledged belligerents severed their original contracts and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new States or remain as conquered provinces." Stevens had persistently maintained this theory from the very beginning of the Rebellion, and he had...
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Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches. 1825-1893

Edward Mayes - Judges - 1895 - 862 pages
...rights of the Southern States; saw him repudiate the dogma of an indestructible Union, and assert that " the future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conqueror;'' saw him forsake the great charter of the constitution, and appeal to principles of international law,...
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Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches. 1825-1893

Edward Mayes - Lamar, Lucious Quintus Cincinnatus, 1825-1893 - 1896 - 864 pages
...rights of the Southern States; saw him repudiate the dogma of an indestructible Union, and assert that "the future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conqueror;'1 saw him forsake the great charter of the constitution, and appeal to principles of international...
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VII. Civil war and reconstruction. VIII. Free trade and protection. IX ...

Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...the late war between two acknowledged belligerents severed their original compacts, and broke all the ties that bound them together. The future condition...in as new States or remain as conquered provinces. Congress — the Senate and House of Representatives, with the concurrence of the President — is...
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