03/05/1864
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"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
"it is deemed advisable that they should be opened to domestic and foreign commerce:"
"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 limita..."
"Whereas by my proclamation of the 19th of April, 1861, it was declared that the ports of certain States, including those of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, Fernandina and Pensacola, in the State of..."