THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES; OR, THE WAR OF 1861 |
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An immense meeting was held in the street, relative to the removal of ordnance
South. Several resolutions were adopted, almost unanimously, declaring loyalty
to the Union, deploring the existing state of things, and that it is the special duty of
...
An immense meeting was held in the street, relative to the removal of ordnance
South. Several resolutions were adopted, almost unanimously, declaring loyalty
to the Union, deploring the existing state of things, and that it is the special duty of
...
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From early dawn the drum and fife could be heard in every quarter of the city, and
the streets were thronged with the volunteer soldiery, hastening to their
respective rendezvous. Three or four hours elapsed before there was the least
chance of ...
From early dawn the drum and fife could be heard in every quarter of the city, and
the streets were thronged with the volunteer soldiery, hastening to their
respective rendezvous. Three or four hours elapsed before there was the least
chance of ...
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They had entered together from the street through a private covered passage-
way, on the north side of the Capitol, police officers being in attendance to
prevent outsiders from crowding after them. The line of procession was then
formed, ...
They had entered together from the street through a private covered passage-
way, on the north side of the Capitol, police officers being in attendance to
prevent outsiders from crowding after them. The line of procession was then
formed, ...
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Till nearly midnight the streets presented the most animated appearance. The
crowd illuminated their passage by rockets and other 74 THE REBELLION IN
THE UNITED STATES. Great mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah,
Till nearly midnight the streets presented the most animated appearance. The
crowd illuminated their passage by rockets and other 74 THE REBELLION IN
THE UNITED STATES. Great mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah,
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Cables were stretched across the streets to prevent the passage of vehicles. A
dense crowd was collected on Meeting Street, extending over two squares. The
neighboring housetops, windows and balconies were thronged with ladies
waving ...
Cables were stretched across the streets to prevent the passage of vehicles. A
dense crowd was collected on Meeting Street, extending over two squares. The
neighboring housetops, windows and balconies were thronged with ladies
waving ...
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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?