The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volumen1O.D. Case, 1864 - 37 páginas "A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union "--T.p. |
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... Attempts at ' Conciliation ' in Cong . 367 Buchanan and Black condemn ' coercion'- Mr. Crittenden and his Compromise ... Attempt to provision - Order to open fire - Bombardment commenced - Fire returned - Interior of the fort in flames ...
... Attempts at ' Conciliation ' in Cong . 367 Buchanan and Black condemn ' coercion'- Mr. Crittenden and his Compromise ... Attempt to provision - Order to open fire - Bombardment commenced - Fire returned - Interior of the fort in flames ...
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... attempt on Saint Augustine , which miscarried ; and this , in 1742 , • 12 Oglethorpe lived to be nearly a hundred years old - dying at Cranham Hall , Essex , Eng- land , June 30 , 1787. It is not recorded nor probable that he ever ...
... attempt on Saint Augustine , which miscarried ; and this , in 1742 , • 12 Oglethorpe lived to be nearly a hundred years old - dying at Cranham Hall , Essex , Eng- land , June 30 , 1787. It is not recorded nor probable that he ever ...
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... attempt of this kind by the good people of this Colony , in a constitutional manner , has been hitherto frustrated by the influence and authority of men in office and their numer- ous dependents , and in every other natural and just way ...
... attempt of this kind by the good people of this Colony , in a constitutional manner , has been hitherto frustrated by the influence and authority of men in office and their numer- ous dependents , and in every other natural and just way ...
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... attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce . And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact ... attempted to restrain the importation of slaves , and who , on the contrary , still wished to continue it . Our ...
... attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce . And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact ... attempted to restrain the importation of slaves , and who , on the contrary , still wished to continue it . Our ...
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... attempt to restrain them by force and severity , keeping a strict guard over them , and punishing them severely who shall be detected in attempting to join our opposers , this will only be making bad worse , and serve to render our ...
... attempt to restrain them by force and severity , keeping a strict guard over them , and punishing them severely who shall be detected in attempting to join our opposers , this will only be making bad worse , and serve to render our ...
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Página 268 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Página 42 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 455 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 35 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 41 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE i.
Página 422 - 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...
Página 84 - Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force : that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : that the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...
Página 268 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 269 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Página 303 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.