Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of SlaveryLittle, Brown,, 1867 - 628 páginas |
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... disloyal . She was subjugated out of the union with Great Britain by the armies of the North . She was induced to adopt the Constitution by a trade which was demoralizing to her people ; and her career had been characterized by hatred ...
... disloyal . She was subjugated out of the union with Great Britain by the armies of the North . She was induced to adopt the Constitution by a trade which was demoralizing to her people ; and her career had been characterized by hatred ...
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... disloyal States are enemies , and we must so treat them . Suppose there are a few loyal men in South Carolina , North Carolina , Georgia , and Texas : are they to stand in the way of the salvation of this country ? I trust not . When ...
... disloyal States are enemies , and we must so treat them . Suppose there are a few loyal men in South Carolina , North Carolina , Georgia , and Texas : are they to stand in the way of the salvation of this country ? I trust not . When ...
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... formed . Treachery was in their hearts then , and they have adhered to their disloyalty through evil report and through good report ; but I trust the 140 EMANCIPATION . SALE OF GOLD: Speech in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1864.
... formed . Treachery was in their hearts then , and they have adhered to their disloyalty through evil report and through good report ; but I trust the 140 EMANCIPATION . SALE OF GOLD: Speech in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1864.
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... disloyal and rebellious States , if they do not previously return to their allegiance . " What will you do , " says one , " if you eman- cipate the slaves ? " My friend , what will you do if you don't ? What are we doing now , when we ...
... disloyal and rebellious States , if they do not previously return to their allegiance . " What will you do , " says one , " if you eman- cipate the slaves ? " My friend , what will you do if you don't ? What are we doing now , when we ...
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... disloyal States , let us stand forth as a nation in our original strength and purity , main- taining the ideas to which our fathers gave utter- ance , but which , under the circumstances , they were not able always and everywhere to ...
... disloyal States , let us stand forth as a nation in our original strength and purity , main- taining the ideas to which our fathers gave utter- ance , but which , under the circumstances , they were not able always and everywhere to ...
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Speeches and Papers relating to The Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery George S. Boutwell Vista previa limitada - 2022 |
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Página 5 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 5 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 110 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 605 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 589 - That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Página 349 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Página 613 - States proposed by the thirty-ninth congress, and known as article fourteen ; and when said article shall have become a part of the constitution of the United States, said state shall be declared entitled to representation in congress, and senators and representatives shall be admitted therefrom on their taking the oath prescribed by law ; and then and thereafter the preceding sections of this act shall be inoperative in said state...
Página 247 - Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason...
Página 349 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war during which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public...
Página 110 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions R. A. W. Rhodes,Sarah A. Binder,Bert A. Rockman Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession Russell McClintock Vista previa limitada - 2008 |