...wants from Congress. Here is the decisive passage : — "With a profound sense of the solemn and the tragical character of the step I am taking, and of...what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than...

...against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs ; they cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...fact, nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been...

...against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut at the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States ; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been...

...against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been...

...against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been...

...of submission and are arraying ourselves against wrongs which cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step he advised the Congress to declare the recent course of the German Government to be in effect nothing...

...of submission and are arraying ourselves against wrongs which cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step he advised the Congress to declare the recent course of the German Government to be in effect nothing...

...of submission and are arraying ourselves against wrongs which cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step he advised the Congress to declare the recent course of the German Government to be in effect nothing...

...by a vote of 217 to 205. The President addressed both Houses, meeting in joint session and advised, that "the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be nothing less than war against the government and the people of the United States." He recommended an...

...human life." Then came the presentation of the only alternate course the United States could take: "With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States, that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been...