The Comprehensive History of the Southern Rebellion and the War for the Union: Embodying Also Important State Papers, Congressional Proceedings, Official Reports, Remarkable Speeches, Etc., Etc, Volumen1J. D. Torrey, 1862 - 512 páginas |
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... existing among them . For this , the people of the North are not more respon- sible , and have no more right to interfere , than with similar institutions in Russia or in Brazil . Upon their good sense and patriotic forbearance I ...
... existing among them . For this , the people of the North are not more respon- sible , and have no more right to interfere , than with similar institutions in Russia or in Brazil . Upon their good sense and patriotic forbearance I ...
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... existing between them , much less to acknowledge the independence of that State . This would be to invest a mere Executive officer with the power of recognizing the dissolation of the Confederacy among our thirty - three sovereign ...
... existing between them , much less to acknowledge the independence of that State . This would be to invest a mere Executive officer with the power of recognizing the dissolation of the Confederacy among our thirty - three sovereign ...
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... existing Congress of the old Confederation . Without descending to particulars , it may be safely asserted that the power to make war against a State is at variance with the whole spirit and in- tent of the Constitution . Suppose such a ...
... existing Congress of the old Confederation . Without descending to particulars , it may be safely asserted that the power to make war against a State is at variance with the whole spirit and in- tent of the Constitution . Suppose such a ...
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... existing dissensions and restore peace ginia . In this be ably and conclusively defended the and harmony amongst the States . resolutions of the preceding Legislature against the strictures of several other State Legislatures . These ...
... existing dissensions and restore peace ginia . In this be ably and conclusively defended the and harmony amongst the States . resolutions of the preceding Legislature against the strictures of several other State Legislatures . These ...
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... existing political troubles , and , up Slavery agitation , Madison , in 1833 , thus wrote . if possible , to compose our sectional strifes . " It is certain that , up to December 3d , the Union feeling was largely in the ascendant ...
... existing political troubles , and , up Slavery agitation , Madison , in 1833 , thus wrote . if possible , to compose our sectional strifes . " It is certain that , up to December 3d , the Union feeling was largely in the ascendant ...
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Página 46 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Página 45 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. — But, the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 90 - Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Página 45 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 54 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Página 377 - Colonies from the motherland; but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.
Página 45 - Citizens, by birth, or choice, of a common country, tha't country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 377 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Página 18 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Página 62 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political : peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none : the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies : the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...