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Excerpt from The Right and Duty of Congress to Recognize War in Cuba: Speech in the Senate May 17, 1897
It is a curious incident of the civil war in this country which took place some thirty years ago that the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, was the first to recognize a state of pub lic war, and it was held by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Prize Cases, reported in 2 Black, that the recognition made by him by a proclamation of blockade was in the line of humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
