that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to such military and naval regulations as are now in force or may hereafter be found necessary.
Proclamation 120—Raising the Blockade of the Ports of Norfolk, Virginia and Fernacina, and Pensacola, Florida
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Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep faith with both, and we do but confuse ourselves in questioning the process by which the right result is reached.
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.
Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending call of troops to fill up the armies
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