The Rebuke of Secession Doctrines

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gratuitous distribution, 1863 - 16 páginas
Includes General Andrew Jackson's reproof of the Nullifiers, Honorable H.S. Legare's lament, Alexander H. Stephens' speech to the Georgia Convention on the causelessness and wickedness of the Southern Rebellion, speech of Honorable Horace Maynard, and speech of Mr. Gaulden (delegate from Georgia). The speeches were delivered at various places; General Jackson's speech was delivered at the South Carolina Convention of 1832 and Maynard delivered his speech in the House of Representatives on January 31, 1863. Mr. Gaulden's speech was given at the Democratic National Convention, Charleston, S.C., 1860.
 

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Página 3 - ... imperiously demanded such a modification of the duties as should reduce them to a just and equitable scale. But, as if apprehensive of the effect of this change in allaying your discontents, you were precipitated into the fearful state in which you now find yourselves. I have urged you to look back to the means that were used to hurry you on to the position you have now assumed, and forward to the consequences it will produce. Something more is necessary. Contemplate the condition of that country...
Página 4 - We too are citizens of America. Carolina is one of these proud States; her arms have defended, her best blood has cemented, this happy Union. And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve; this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface; this free intercourse \ve will interrupt; these fertile fields we will deluge with blood; the protection of that glorious flag we renounce; the very name of Americans we discard.
Página 8 - Presidents (pro tern.) of the Senate, we have had twenty-four to their eleven. Speakers of the House we have had twenty-three, and they twelve. While the majority of the Representatives, from their greater population, have always been from the North, yet we have so generally secured the Speaker, because he, to a great extent, shapes and controls the legislation of the country.
Página 4 - But the dictates of a high duty oblige me solemnly to announce that you cannot succeed. The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject ; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.
Página 7 - Pause, I entreat you, and consider for a moment what reasons you can give, that will even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments — what reason you can give to your fellow-sufferers in the calamity that it will bring upon us.
Página 3 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorised by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Página 8 - But, again, gentlemen, what have we to gain by this proposed change'of our relation to the general government ? -We have always had the control of it, and can yet, if we remain in it, and are as united as we have been. We have had a majority of the Presidents chosen from the South ; as well as the control and management of most of those chosen from the North.
Página 8 - South, and but eleven from the North; although nearly four-fifths of the judicial business has arisen in the Free States, yet a majority of the court has always been from the South. This we have required so as to guard against any interpretation of the Constitution unfavorable to us.
Página 7 - What right has the North assailed ? What interest of the South has been invaded ? What justice has been denied ? and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld ? Can either of you to-day name one govermental act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the government of Washington, of which the South has a right to complain ? I challenge the answer...
Página 3 - Contemplate the condition of that Country of which you still form an important part! — Consider its Government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different States, — giving to all their Inhabitants the proud title of American Citizens, — protecting their commerce, — securing their literature and their arts, — facilitating their intercommunication, — defending their Frontiers, — and making their...

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