Book/Printed Material Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II., King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of the Congo, in matters touching his rights and possessions abroad, in reply to [the] memorial presented to the President of the United States of America concerning affairs in the Congo state by the Congo Reform Association, supported by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society and the Aborigines' Protection Society
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Image 1 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor …- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 2 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … _ LIBRARY OF CONG 020 272 667 7 wy Ons Mas an i 2 tg Us 7- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 3 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … DT 652 K8 Copy 1 BRIEF OF HENRY I KOWALSKY OF THE NEW YORK BAR MARCH 1905- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 4 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor …- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 5 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … BRIEF OF HENRY Tf KOWALSKY OF THE NEW YORK BAR ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR TO LEOPOLD II KING OF THE BELGIANS AND SOVEREIGN OF fie INDEPENDENT STATE OF THE CONGO IN MATTERS TOUCHING…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 6 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor …- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 7 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … Fis a i a 3 L ANSWER TO MEMORIAL Mr PRESIDENT As the legal representative of the Belgian Government in matters touching their rights and possessions abroad I beg leave to respectfully…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 8 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 4 the native warrior and now that he is suppressed it does not desire to divide its revenues with its envious and covetous neighbors There are nations that are much given to…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 9 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 5 It may be interesting to know Mr President that if the present King of the Belgians had been born of his fathers first wife the beautiful Princess Charlotte the only daughter…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 10 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 6 The atrocities committed in Russia the sufferings of the Armenian Christians the Macedonian uprisings the general situ ation in the Balkans and in fact all the crimes that have been committed…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 11 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 7 Laziness and shiftlessness these and above all vice and criminality of every kind are evils more potent of harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 12 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 8 the cup from his lips and heaping obloquy and contumely upon his venerable and venerated head Venerated I say not because of his kingship not because of any royalty which attaches…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 13 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 3 however seems to have been lost sight of by our amiable oppo nents and for that reason I desire to commend to them a careful reading of the words of J…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 14 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 10 tion and thereby bring about the condemnation of the Congo gov ernment by reason of the act of some individual malefactor In other words the wrongdoing or crime of the individual…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 15 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … II form of human justice Of course it is neither infallible nor free from imperfections It is the same system which has been applied to white men for centuries and is now…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 16 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … I2 would be denounced as an idiot yet when you analyze all the charges of the Liverpool Association when you hear its members exclaim against the Congo they make every individual act…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 17 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 13 years and will continue unless a more intense humanity can be infused into the Liverpool Association whose true object is political confiscation of the rights of others expressed by a hypo…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 18 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 14 forth in an article published in the Independence Belge of Decem ber Ist 1904 It must further be remembered that Mr Morel was apparently assisted in this nefarious business by Mr…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 19 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … ad 15 Morel England for centuries both by her public men and gov ernmental acts has time and time again proclaimed to an admiring world the glad tidings that she alone was…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 20 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 16 cities have been committed under the flag of the Congo Free State have been due to these barbarous propensities and have never received the countenance or sanction of either King Leopold…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 21 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 17 written upon the subject have found a resting place upon the stalls of the booksellers and after a short lease of life have fol lowed the works of many of their…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 22 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 18 WORK OF HENRY WELLINGTON WACK This work subsequently found its way into print and has been the inspiration of many of the libels and calumnies hurled at the head of King…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 23 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … te CHARGES IN MEMORIAL But to return to the charges contained in the Memorial The primary objects sought to be obtained by the Berlin Conference were the inauguration of free trade within…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 24 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 20 in the world with whose institutions I am familiar which does not impose conditions upon the right to carry on internal traffic These conditions generally take the form of a license…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 25 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 21 pendent sovereign and autonomous State by the government of the United States and any interference on our part with its in ternal policy might very well be regarded as an unfriendly…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 26 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 22 animals upon the islands adjacent to the Alaskan Coast are a striking illustration of the necessity for regulating the control of public property in order to prevent its annihilation The laws…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Image 27 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 23 by an expression of executive sentiments or legislative resolution in condemning that which mayhap does not meet with our approval I cannot do better in support of my contentions than to…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 28 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 24 in part the sum that it cost to free four million civilized Chris tianized negro slaves in America Though freed forty years ago the problem of their future is still a…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 29 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 25 for you are now using the wisdom of your administration in de veloping civilizing and bringing about religious conditions in the Philippines it would be an usurpation of your valuable time…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 30 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 26 of the maligners of the Congo government or any executive action on his part having in view the investigation of the internal affairs of the Congo would be a direct attack…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 31 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 27 ours special privileges are in many cases conferred upon citizens In most if in not all of the states the right to a grant of corporate privileges is restricted to such…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 32 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 28 legislative grants of exclusive privilege which are upheld even though in effect they create monopolies such as the exclusive per mit to operate a ferry to erect a toll bridge to…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 33 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 29 They discharge their mission under the most difficult conditions and I believe that I may assert that from the GovernorGeneral down to the humblest official there is not one guilty of…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 34 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 30 ings of civilization and religion upon the hapless people of that country Suffice it to say that when such persons are agreed that the Belgians have performed a great work along…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 35 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 31 of July last as proclaimed by Your Majestys command in the May and June issues of the Bulletin officiel de Etat independant du Congo which the Committee regard as a further…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 36 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 32 244 These missions comprise in all 18973 Christians including 5515 children The State is liberality itself in granting them the enjoyment of the land necessary for cultivation besides subsidies or reduction…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 37 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 33 advice concisely and learnedly upon the subject which he ad dressed to the Boston Peace Congress but that of course ai forded no particular opportunity for the personnel of the Asso…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 38 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 34 It may be well to conclude this brief with a summary of what is shown by actual figures to be the industrial condition of the country In the year 1886 the…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 39 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor … 35 this entitles him to the econiums of the world and he may rest assured notwithstanding the venom of his detractors his fame is secure in the hands of posterity Respectfully submitted…- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
- Date: 1905
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Image 40 of Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor …- Contributor: Kowalsky, Henry I.
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Title
- Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II., King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of the Congo, in matters touching his rights and possessions abroad, in reply to [the] memorial presented to the President of the United States of America concerning affairs in the Congo state by the Congo Reform Association, supported by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society and the Aborigines' Protection Society
Names
- Kowalsky, Henry I.
Created / Published
- [New York?] 1905.
Headings
- - Democratic Republic of the Congo
- - Léopold--II,--King of the Belgians,--1835-1909
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 52 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DT652 .K8
Library of Congress Control Number
- 14015292
OCLC Number
- 8908718
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