THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES; OR, THE WAR OF 1861 |
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Southern side of the question reviewed, with comments, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Great
mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah, ...................... 74 Resignation of
Senator Chesnut, of South Carolina, and exciting streetmeeting in Columbia, .
Southern side of the question reviewed, with comments, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Great
mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah, ...................... 74 Resignation of
Senator Chesnut, of South Carolina, and exciting streetmeeting in Columbia, .
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... was observed, in most of the Northern States, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer; sermons were preached by many eminent divines, generally urging a
policy of peace, concession, and fraternization in the great questions of the day.
... was observed, in most of the Northern States, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer; sermons were preached by many eminent divines, generally urging a
policy of peace, concession, and fraternization in the great questions of the day.
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... was intense; hoping, and clinging to that hope with the tenacity of life, that it
might contain measures of compromise which would forever settle the question of
disunion, and leave the country unscathed by the terrible ravages of civil war.
... was intense; hoping, and clinging to that hope with the tenacity of life, that it
might contain measures of compromise which would forever settle the question of
disunion, and leave the country unscathed by the terrible ravages of civil war.
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In the House, on the Question of referring the secession matter in the message to
a special committee, the declaration of Mr. Miles, of South Carolina, that his State
was already out of the confederacy, in everything but form; of Mr. Hawkins, ...
In the House, on the Question of referring the secession matter in the message to
a special committee, the declaration of Mr. Miles, of South Carolina, that his State
was already out of the confederacy, in everything but form; of Mr. Hawkins, ...
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The question is now presented, whether a longer submission to an increasing
spirit and power of aggression is compatible either with her honor or her safety. In
my mind there is no room for doubt. The issue must now be met, or forever ...
The question is now presented, whether a longer submission to an increasing
spirit and power of aggression is compatible either with her honor or her safety. In
my mind there is no room for doubt. The issue must now be met, or forever ...
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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?