THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES; OR, THE WAR OF 1861 |
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77 Arms and equipments of Virginia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Suspension of Southern banks, . . . . . . . . . . .......................... 79 CHA PTER W.
Response of the Governor of Texas to the people's call for an extra sesSion of the
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77 Arms and equipments of Virginia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Suspension of Southern banks, . . . . . . . . . . .......................... 79 CHA PTER W.
Response of the Governor of Texas to the people's call for an extra sesSion of the
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How long, think you, my readers, would the “hero of New Orleans,” the immortal
Jackson, have sat with his arms folded and his eyes closed, patiently waiting for
the time to arrive when he should retire, and 2% THE REBELLION IN THE ...
How long, think you, my readers, would the “hero of New Orleans,” the immortal
Jackson, have sat with his arms folded and his eyes closed, patiently waiting for
the time to arrive when he should retire, and 2% THE REBELLION IN THE ...
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Taking up arms to resist the federal laws, he pronounced treason. December
19th, Governor Hicks, of Maryland, declined to receive the commissioner from
Mississippi. He vindicated the course by expressing strong Union sentiments; ...
Taking up arms to resist the federal laws, he pronounced treason. December
19th, Governor Hicks, of Maryland, declined to receive the commissioner from
Mississippi. He vindicated the course by expressing strong Union sentiments; ...
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On the evening of the same day, December 26, Major Anderson commenced the
evacuation of Fort Moultrie, transferring his entire force (about eighty men), with
stores, munitions, movable arms, etc., to Fort Sumter, after having spiked the ...
On the evening of the same day, December 26, Major Anderson commenced the
evacuation of Fort Moultrie, transferring his entire force (about eighty men), with
stores, munitions, movable arms, etc., to Fort Sumter, after having spiked the ...
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... be adverse to our arms; you may carry desolation into our peaceful land, and
with torch and firebrand may set our cities in flames; you may even emulate the
atrocities of those who, in the days of the Revolution, hounded on the blood-
thirsty ...
... be adverse to our arms; you may carry desolation into our peaceful land, and
with torch and firebrand may set our cities in flames; you may even emulate the
atrocities of those who, in the days of the Revolution, hounded on the blood-
thirsty ...
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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?