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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... SOLDIERS ; PATRIOTIC SPEECHES ; AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF INTEREST CON- NECTED WITH THE REBELLION . TAKEN FROM GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES . SECOND EDITION . CAREFULLY COMPILED BY MRS . J. BLAKESLEE FROST . HARTFORD ...
... SOLDIERS ; PATRIOTIC SPEECHES ; AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF INTEREST CON- NECTED WITH THE REBELLION . TAKEN FROM GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES . SECOND EDITION . CAREFULLY COMPILED BY MRS . J. BLAKESLEE FROST . HARTFORD ...
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... soldier at Fortress Monroe , ... .175 The Fifth Regiment called out — their departure for the seat of war , .... 177 Departure of the Eleventh , Twelfth , and Sixth New York Regiments , also the Rhode Island First ,. 180 CHAPTER X. The ...
... soldier at Fortress Monroe , ... .175 The Fifth Regiment called out — their departure for the seat of war , .... 177 Departure of the Eleventh , Twelfth , and Sixth New York Regiments , also the Rhode Island First ,. 180 CHAPTER X. The ...
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... soldiers here deserve great credit ; though they know what an unequal number is coming to massacre them , yet they are in good spirits , and will fight desperately . Our commander says he never saw such a brave little band . I feel ...
... soldiers here deserve great credit ; though they know what an unequal number is coming to massacre them , yet they are in good spirits , and will fight desperately . Our commander says he never saw such a brave little band . I feel ...
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... soldiers of the United States to its ene- mies ; and the course proposed by the Secretary of the Interior , if followed , is treason , and will involve you , and all concerned , in treason . " Such language had never before been heard ...
... soldiers of the United States to its ene- mies ; and the course proposed by the Secretary of the Interior , if followed , is treason , and will involve you , and all concerned , in treason . " Such language had never before been heard ...
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... United States soldiers " with bloody hands to hospita- ble graves ; " or , in other words , waiting to enact a scene 42 - before which all the high extravaganzas thus far played CHAPTER III An imaginary battle at Harper's Ferry,
... United States soldiers " with bloody hands to hospita- ble graves ; " or , in other words , waiting to enact a scene 42 - before which all the high extravaganzas thus far played CHAPTER III An imaginary battle at Harper's Ferry,
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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?