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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... 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 , 1862 . Entered ...
... 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 , 1862 . Entered ...
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... speech in the United States Senate , .. 38 Senator Baker , of Oregon , replies to Senator Benjamin , .... .40 Secretary of the Interior resigned , ......... . 41 CHAPTER III . An imaginary battle at Harper's Ferry , .... The Star of the ...
... speech in the United States Senate , .. 38 Senator Baker , of Oregon , replies to Senator Benjamin , .... .40 Secretary of the Interior resigned , ......... . 41 CHAPTER III . An imaginary battle at Harper's Ferry , .... The Star of the ...
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... speech by Governor Andrew ,. Arrival of the Sixth and Fourth Regiments in New York , .... Harper's Ferry arsenal destroyed by Lieut . Jones , .. .... • The Massachusetts Sixth Regiment assailed by a mob in its passage • through ...
... speech by Governor Andrew ,. Arrival of the Sixth and Fourth Regiments in New York , .... Harper's Ferry arsenal destroyed by Lieut . Jones , .. .... • The Massachusetts Sixth Regiment assailed by a mob in its passage • through ...
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... speeches of Southern senators , looking to secession as their only relief from Northern domination . In the House , on the question of referring the secession matter in the message to a special committee , the declaration of Mr. Miles ...
... speeches of Southern senators , looking to secession as their only relief from Northern domination . In the House , on the question of referring the secession matter in the message to a special committee , the declaration of Mr. Miles ...
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... speech , by John Cochrane , of New York ; who , figuratively , with the American flag in one hand and a splendid spread eagle in the other , appealed to the Florida member to act upon the committee . It was a burst of thrilling elo ...
... speech , by John Cochrane , of New York ; who , figuratively , with the American flag in one hand and a splendid spread eagle in the other , appealed to the Florida member to act upon the committee . It was a burst of thrilling elo ...
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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?