The American Rebellion: Some Facts and Reflections for the Consideration of the English People ...Beadle, 1861 - 48 páginas |
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... reader , desirous of judging from a full knowledge of the question , will very naturally infer that an idea so patiently adhered to , even by revolutionists , must have some claims to consideration . The London Review correctly ex ...
... reader , desirous of judging from a full knowledge of the question , will very naturally infer that an idea so patiently adhered to , even by revolutionists , must have some claims to consideration . The London Review correctly ex ...
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... reader ask , in amazement ? Very easily . If a set of despe- rate , determined men should proclaim a vote on a certain day , and should proceed to the polls to shoot down or to insult any person who presumed to vote inimically to their ...
... reader ask , in amazement ? Very easily . If a set of despe- rate , determined men should proclaim a vote on a certain day , and should proceed to the polls to shoot down or to insult any person who presumed to vote inimically to their ...
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... reader refer to the section of this paper treating of the " Im- mediate Cause of the Rebellion , " and see how far the Times is justified in its statement of the matter : let him refer to the " " Religious Sentiment of the Country on ...
... reader refer to the section of this paper treating of the " Im- mediate Cause of the Rebellion , " and see how far the Times is justified in its statement of the matter : let him refer to the " " Religious Sentiment of the Country on ...
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... readers the feeling of indignation and scorn which the people of the Free States of America now entertain for the London Times . If its course , previous to its issue of May 21st , was unacceptable to our Government and people , the ...
... readers the feeling of indignation and scorn which the people of the Free States of America now entertain for the London Times . If its course , previous to its issue of May 21st , was unacceptable to our Government and people , the ...
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... reader in England suppose , in reading the comments of the Times , that the single State of New York contained more ... readers when , day after day , it prates of the " Confederates " as the equals of the Free States ! What ignorance ...
... reader in England suppose , in reading the comments of the Times , that the single State of New York contained more ... readers when , day after day , it prates of the " Confederates " as the equals of the Free States ! What ignorance ...
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Abolitionists age of barbarism Alabama allegiance American shores authority Baring Brothers Barings Bates-Have you finished BEADLE AND COMPANY believe Bishop Potter British cause characteristic light CHARLES SUMNER Christian citizens Confederate Congress conspirators Constitution contest corner-stone cotton Crown declare desire DISHONOR dollars Dudley Mann duty election England English Englishmen entente cordiale Episcopalian existing fact federacy Federal Free friends Government Governor Brown high seas human hundred thousand Jefferson Davis King Cotton laws liberty Lincoln loyal matter means ment millions Mississippi moral negro North Northern oath oppress outraged party patriotism pause Peabody peace population prayer and address President principle protect question Rebel rebellion regard Republic Republican repudiation Resolved revolution right of secession save the King secede sentiments Slave Confederacy Slave power slaveholding slavery solemn South South Carolina Southern speech from Commissioner spirit Stars and Stripes sustain sympathy tion truth unanimity Union element United United States Constitution Virginia vote
Pasajes populares
Página 9 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Página 30 - African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the rock upon which the old Union would split.
Página 10 - The negro by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.
Página 16 - I cannot too earnestly impress upon you the necessity of removing the slavery agitation from the halls of Congress and presidential conflicts. It is conceded that Congress has no power to interfere with slavery in the states where it exists; and if it can now be established, as is clearly the doctrine of the constitution, that Congress has no...
Página 18 - Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.
Página 6 - Without pausing for an answer, I will state my own position to be, that such a result would be a species of revolution, by which the purposes of the government would be destroyed, and the observance of its mere forms entitled to no respect. In that event, in such...
Página 18 - Union to take place in any way whatever. There will be here only one nation and one government, and there will be the same republic and the same constitutional Union that have already survived a dozen national changes, and changes of government in almost every other country. These will stand hereafter, as they are now, objects of human wonder and human affection.
Página 10 - It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics.
Página 18 - You cannot be .too decided or too explicit in making known to the French government that there is not now, nor has there been, nor will there be any the least idea existing in this government of suffering a dissolution of this Union to take place in any way whatever. There will be here only one nation and one government, and there will be the same Republic, and the same constitutional Union that have already survived a dozen national changes, and changes of government in almost every other country.
Página 10 - In the conflict, thus far, success has been on our side, complete throughout the length and breadth of the Confederate States. It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted ; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.