THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES; OR, THE WAR OF 1861 |
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And now, O Lord, our God, we offer to thee our humble praise for the past, the
present; and for all the future will it please thee, for Christ's sake, to grant us thy
special aid. Thou art very high and lifted up; thou lookest down over the whole
land, ...
And now, O Lord, our God, we offer to thee our humble praise for the past, the
present; and for all the future will it please thee, for Christ's sake, to grant us thy
special aid. Thou art very high and lifted up; thou lookest down over the whole
land, ...
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... answered to his name on roll-call in the House. But no senators were present
from South Carolina, Georgia, or Louisiana, -the South Carolina Senators,
Chesnut and Hammond, having resigned their seats in the Senate, the former on
the ...
... answered to his name on roll-call in the House. But no senators were present
from South Carolina, Georgia, or Louisiana, -the South Carolina Senators,
Chesnut and Hammond, having resigned their seats in the Senate, the former on
the ...
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... as “relates to the present perilous condition of the country.” The United States
Senate, December 4th, was characterized by the most exciting speeches of
Southern senators, looking to secession as their only relief from Northern
domination.
... as “relates to the present perilous condition of the country.” The United States
Senate, December 4th, was characterized by the most exciting speeches of
Southern senators, looking to secession as their only relief from Northern
domination.
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On the sixth, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
announced the committee of thirtythree, called for under Mr. Boteler's resolution,
to consider “so much of the President's message as relates to the present
perilous ...
On the sixth, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
announced the committee of thirtythree, called for under Mr. Boteler's resolution,
to consider “so much of the President's message as relates to the present
perilous ...
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Messrs. Davis, Toombs and Hunter discussed the present unhappy condition of
the country, and manifested a willingness to accept any measure of final
settlement which would secure their just rights in the Union. Though, at the same
time, ...
Messrs. Davis, Toombs and Hunter discussed the present unhappy condition of
the country, and manifested a willingness to accept any measure of final
settlement which would secure their just rights in the Union. Though, at the same
time, ...
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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?