The proposition is for the loyal States to determine upon what terms they will restore to the Union the insurgent States.
I have no doubt that the Government of the United States has authority to extend the elective franchise to the colored population of the insurgent States, but I do not think it has the power.
If we can do this, much of the apprehension and anxiety now existing in the loyal States will be allayed, and a great obstacle to an early restoration of the insurgent States to their constitutional relations in the Union will be removed.
It is my belief," said he, "that reörganization of governments in the insurgent States can be secured only by measures which will work a change in the basis of political society.
This report is published in one of the reliable Spanish papers, and it states that General Primo de Rivera has been discussing terms of peace with Emilio Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader.
While the Government continues to gain the upper hand, and the insurgent leaders are being defeated and obliged to flee the country, the condition of affairs is most distressing.
They had escaped by night, and had already joined the insurgent army.
It was the Italian espionage network in Mexico which learned the course of the ill-fated "Mar Cantabrico" which left New York and Vera Cruz with a cargo of arms for the Loyalists and was intercepted and sunk by an Insurgent cruiser.
Urged by such fatal symptoms, and by the approaching night, he deployed his men, and closed in overwhelming numbers on the centre and right flank of the insurgent army.
Here many visits were paid to him by the ministers and officers of the insurgent force.
Several were imprisoned, some were released by their parishioners, and others remained in the hands of the new insurgent soldiery.
Turn now to the other illustration,--a Masonic apron, worn at secret meetings and also in battle, which was found on the body of an insurgent after an engagement.
To do this I had every opportunity, not only here in Manila, but also in the outlying provinces, as I have been sent frequently into the interior of the island to treat with the insurgent leaders.
It is true that those who have fomented the rebellion, and the thousands who have joined the insurgent ranks, are bitter towards the monks, or rather friars.
Enormous patrols, composed of battalions of the line enclosed in entire companies of the National Guard, and preceded by the Police Commissary in his scarf, went to reconnoitre the insurgent streets.
With the exception of the insurgent districts, as a rule, nothing is more strangely calm than the physiognomy of Paris during a riot.
When every one else went to his post the only persons left in the room were Javert tied to the post, an insurgent with drawn sabre watching over Javert, and Mabœuf.
Young as he was, my father had been actively engaged in the various skirmishes and battles which occurred between the insurgent forces and the royal troops.
Although the insurgent army is not yet disbanded, the sugar-planters get plenty of help from their ranks by offering fair wages.
He had been accustomed to the Negroes in the insurgent army, and a different lot they are from those in the United States army.
Public sentiment grew stronger with every fresh report of an Insurgent victory, or a Weyler persecution.
The Charleston News and Courier says: It is not known what proportion of the insurgentarmy is colored, but the indications are that the proportion of the same element in the volunteer army of occupation will be small.
PIO PILAR, In charge of the Insurgentforces which attacked the American troops.
I therefore request that you will at once take such measures as will insure its safety, and thus discourage any attempt for its possession by insurgent or other illegal combinations.
The formal accordance of belligerent rights to the insurgent States was unprecedented, and has not been justified by the issue.
Sherman, who was in command of the United States forces there, received information which he supposed justified him in seizing her, as she was on her way from Charleston to Havana with insurgent correspondence on board.
It was welcomed by a large body of insurgent Greeks (Mairotes) and a Russian force was landed.
It showed that they were no match for the insurgent Greek peasants.
Collecting a force of Albanians, he succeeded in defeating the insurgent Greeks, fifteen thousand in number, and their Russian allies.
The Landgrave Philip, and John, the new Elector of Saxony, distinguished themselves by their clemency in dismissing unpunished to their homes, after the victory, a number of the insurgent peasants.
Morillo, master of Nueva Granada, had come from Santa Fé and destroyed most of the insurgent forces existing in the western part of Venezuela.
At first it was costly to the insurgent armies, which lost their best infantrymen.
But some royalists had gone to the south, and entered the city of Calabozo, after having destroyed an insurgent force.
Furthermore, through a partial defeat of Páez and disasters of other officers, by the end of May the insurgent forces were almost totally destroyed.
To regard this as an invariable condition would nevertheless lead to error, for at times, under proper guidance, the natives would pass to the files of the insurgent leaders and fight against the Spaniards.
He was no longer the rebel, the insurgent or the bandit.
Grenada, like St. Vincent, had been ravaged by the French and insurgentslaves since March, 1795, and the relief of that island was one of the first cares of Sir R.
Kane, an American who spoke Ilocano exceptionally well, and Colonel Blas Villamor, a former Insurgent officer, who was more familiar with the territory which I desired to visit than any one else of whom I could learn.
The Insurgent leaders did not hesitate officially to report the commission of this ghastly crime.
During the insurrection the confiscation of the friar estates was very seriously considered by the so-called Insurgent government, which nominally took over their administration.
Any one who is not convinced by these extracts from the official Insurgent records that murder was a duly authorized governmental agency under the Philippine "Republic" is not amenable to reason or influenced by incontrovertible facts.
When the Insurgent government began to be pinched for funds, failure to pay taxes became, in many cases, sufficient ground for murdering the delinquent.
The same statements cannot be truthfully made with reference to murder, as I shall conclusively show by the records of the Insurgent government.
So, the parading of Austria, the towering athlete, failed of its complete lesson of intimidation, and only ruffled the surface of insurgent hearts.
The whole house had risen insurgent with cries of 'Vittoria.
The next best medicinal thing to war is the military occupation of insurgent provinces.
At first Odovacar held himself aloof from the proposed confederacy, but afterwards (486) he was disposed, or Zeno believed that he was disposed, to accept the alliance of the insurgent general.
The lack of public security is a key concern for investors, making progress in the government's peace negotiations with insurgent groups an important driver of economic performance.
But what comparison, in numbers have such bands ever borne to the insurgent sympathizers even in many of the loyal States?
Unquestionably if we had seized and had them the insurgent cause would be much weaker.
By this time all the American officers had become familiar with the insurgent leaders, and these were now obliged to leave the towns and establish cuartels in remote barrios and in the mountains.
They were met by a brisk fire from the insurgent command scattered along the banks of the river and in a sugar hacienda close to the stream.
In a great semicircle of over twenty miles, girdling the city north, east and south, the outposts and sentries of the two divisions kept watchful eyes upon the Insurgent forces surrounding them.
The very servants in each household, it was known, were in most cases regularly enrolled in the Insurgent army.
And there really were moments when the insurgent chiefs in alliance with Pope and Emperor boasted that with French and Scotch help they would attack the English on all sides and drive them into the sea.
