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Updated: September 6, 2025
The solidarity of the country had been demonstrated by the easy suppression of the Courtenays and Poles. If an invasion was contemplated which can hardly be doubted the invaders thought better of the situation, and the armada dispersed without any overt hostilities taking place.
And the overt bearing manner in which this policy was sometimes carried out left as much bitterness behind as the object it aimed at. It is alleged that the Italian delegates were treated with an economy of consideration which bordered on something much worse, while the arguments officially invoked to non-suit them appeared to them in the light of bitter sarcasms.
He committed the first overt act of the war. He seized Fort Pulaski, on the Savannah, Jan. 3, 1861. On the 22d of January, ten cases of muskets belonging to a firm in Macon were seized by the New York police after they had been placed on board a vessel. Governor Brown sent a telegram to Governor Morgan, demanding the release of these arms.
"She would give back the fiefs if she knew that they had been misplaced that any right had been violated. And now after these confiscations " "Aye, there are more lands to satisfy their demands, it is true. But in their pride they might refuse let her not wonder at it, nor cease from her courtesies. The nobles are rather sullen than overt in their discontent.
Than Nature, in Goethe's sense, no theme is more familiar to us, for whom many a poet tells the story and many a lesser poet echoes the conceit; but if there be anywhere in Greek such overt praise and worship of Nature's beauty, I cannot call it to mind.
These precautions have been considered necessary for every criminal trial, but the framers of the American Constitution, fearful lest popular prejudice some day might cause injustice to those advocating unpopular ideals, prohibited the irremediable penalty of death upon a charge of treason except where the testimony of two reliable witnesses established some overt act, inference not being admissible as evidence.
Then corruption became rampant, as was natural, the rich buying the votes of the poor; and votes were bought in various ways by cheap food as well as by money, by lavish expenditure in games, by promises of land, and other means of bribery more or less overt. This was bad, of course. Every freeman should have given a vote according to his conscience.
"'Yes, said the President, 'this man Strider is at the head of that party. He is a smooth-talking fellow rather an "Oily Gammon," very shrewd, and hard to catch at any open or overt act. He has a way of setting others on and keeping out himself. At least, I should so conclude from what I have seen and know of him. "'Yes, Mr. President, you have estimated the man correctly, was my reply.
In such a place dreamed about and sketched from her asthmatic youth onward neither rivers of flowing pollutants nor mountainous landfills existed. Within its solitary and pristine nature, there would be no tacit or overt pressures to get a job and become someone.
Must he forbear his complaint until the mischief is done and can not be prevented? If his zeal in the public service should impel him to anticipate the overt act, must he move at the peril of being tried himself for the offense of slandering his subordinate? In the present circumstances of the country someone must be held responsible for official delinquency of every kind.
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