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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,404 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 200 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 188 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 184 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. 174 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) 166 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 164 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 132 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 100 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 100 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) or search for Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
onment of the persons implicated. By the marine ordinance of France, of August, 1861, French subjects were prohibited from entering foreign private armed service without permission to the king, under penalty of being treated as pirates. Mexico, in her recent war with the United States, made great efforts to induce the citizens of other Governments to accept letters of marque against the commerce of the United States, but without avail. The President, in his message to Congress in 1846, after stating the efforts made by Mexico to induce citizens of other nations to accept letters of marque, says: "It will be for the courts of justice to decide whether these Mexican letters of marque shall protect those who accept them, and commit robberies upon the high seas under their authority, from the pains and penalties of piracy." The practice of nations has uniformly been to consider the line of demarcation between privateering and piracy as very slight, and the courts,
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military movements. (search)
General. was to select for his Adjutant an experienced officer who had resigned from the U. S. Army, and whom he had previously known only by reputation. Naturally taciturn and secretive, he makes it difficult for the enemy to discover his plans. An excellent judge of men, he selects his counsellors carefully and sparingly. In addition, he has the prestige of success. Though neither a trimmer nor an intriguer, he has never been a candidate for political station without obtaining it.--In Mexico, as more recently in Missouri, he never commanded in a battle that he did not win. The Missourians are rallying to him in mass. By the latest, though perhaps exaggerated statements of the Lincoln presses, he has now 40,000 men under his command. This distinguished man is sometimes confounded with Thomas L. Price, of Mo., once a General in the militia, and many years ago Lieutenant Governor of the State, and now a supporter of the Lincoln Government.--They are antipodes in many respects