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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
ld as the days of Justinian, but I will come down to what has been deemed high Republican authority, that of John Quincy Adams. We had like controversies with Great Britain in 1783 and in 1816, upon the subject of slave emancipation, that we have now. Great Britain, pending the revolution emancipated and abducted many slaves from Great Britain, pending the revolution emancipated and abducted many slaves from Long Island and elsewhere, and carried these slaves to Nova Scotia or to the West Indies, there to be re-enslaved; and in the war of 1812. Great Britain exercised a like power over this slave property of the United States. John Quincy Adams, at a Minister to England, as Secretary of State of the United States, wrote to the BritishGreat Britain exercised a like power over this slave property of the United States. John Quincy Adams, at a Minister to England, as Secretary of State of the United States, wrote to the British authorities that-- "They (the British) had no right to make any such emancipation promises to the negro. The principle is, that the emancipation of the enemy's slaves is not among the acts of legitimate war; as relates to the owners, it is a destruction of private property, nowhere warranted by the usages of war. "No su