The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volumen1G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1862 |
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... April 3d . Long cabinet meeting on Fort Sumter busi- Great activity in the navy department . ness . We have thus far , the reader will see , given only the Northern side of the question ; we now propose to retrace our steps and give an ...
... April 3d . Long cabinet meeting on Fort Sumter busi- Great activity in the navy department . ness . We have thus far , the reader will see , given only the Northern side of the question ; we now propose to retrace our steps and give an ...
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... April 4. Virginia convention refused to submit a se- cession ordinance to the people , 89 to 45 . April 7. General Beauregard notified Major Ander- son that intercourse between the city of Charleston and Fort Sumter would no longer be ...
... April 4. Virginia convention refused to submit a se- cession ordinance to the people , 89 to 45 . April 7. General Beauregard notified Major Ander- son that intercourse between the city of Charleston and Fort Sumter would no longer be ...
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... April 9. Steamers Illinois and Baltic sailed from New York with sealed orders . April 10. The floating battery of the rebels at Charleston having been finished , was mounted with four thirty - two pounders , two forty - two's , and ...
... April 9. Steamers Illinois and Baltic sailed from New York with sealed orders . April 10. The floating battery of the rebels at Charleston having been finished , was mounted with four thirty - two pounders , two forty - two's , and ...
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... April 11 : " A formal demand for the evacuation of Fort Sumter was made at two o'clock to- day . Major Anderson refused to surrender . His reply is to the effect that to do so would be inconsistent with the duty he owes to his ...
... April 11 : " A formal demand for the evacuation of Fort Sumter was made at two o'clock to- day . Major Anderson refused to surrender . His reply is to the effect that to do so would be inconsistent with the duty he owes to his ...
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... April 12. Hostilities commenced . At half - past four o'clock in the morning , Fort Moultrie began the bom- bardment of Fort Sumter , after which the batteries at Mount Pleasant , Cumming's Point , and the floating bat- tery , opened a ...
... April 12. Hostilities commenced . At half - past four o'clock in the morning , Fort Moultrie began the bom- bardment of Fort Sumter , after which the batteries at Mount Pleasant , Cumming's Point , and the floating bat- tery , opened a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjourned Alabama April arms arrived arsenal Baltimore batteries blessings cabinet called Capitol Captain Castle Pinckney Charleston cheers citizens command commissioners Confederacy Congress Constitution convention crowd December December 26 declared defend depot dispatch disunion duty excitement Faneuil Hall federal Florida Floyd Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts Georgia Governor Pickens guns were fired Hall honor House Howell Cobb hundred guns immense inaugural Jacob Thompson January Jefferson Davis legislature liberty Lincoln Major Anderson March Maryland Massachusetts meeting ment military minute-men Mississippi Missouri compromise morning Morris Island Moultrie navy North Northern o'clock officers ordinance ordinance of secession Palmetto flag passed patriotic peace President elect rebellion received resigned says secede secession Secretary Senate sent slavery soldiers South Caro South Carolina Southern speech stars and stripes streets Sumter Texas thousand tion treason troops Union United United States Senate Virginia Washington York
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Página 61 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Página 55 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 62 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 54 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 60 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Página 60 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Página 62 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Página 59 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Página 57 - Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it. One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?