National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval: Founded on Official and Other Authentic Documents, Volumen1Johnson, Fry, 1861 Volume 1. Chapter i-xxix (618 pages) -- Volume 3. Chapter lxxx-cxv (642 pages). |
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... sion for alarm . " The progress of society in America is precipitate , and almost revolutionary . The same citizen may have lived to see his State take the lead in the Union , and afterward become pow- crless in the federal assemblies ...
... sion for alarm . " The progress of society in America is precipitate , and almost revolutionary . The same citizen may have lived to see his State take the lead in the Union , and afterward become pow- crless in the federal assemblies ...
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... sion of the Union , no Federal govern- presented in a less destructive , modified ment can ever exist . If to rid ourselves form , asserted the limited powers of the of the present rule of Massachusetts and government under the ...
... sion of the Union , no Federal govern- presented in a less destructive , modified ment can ever exist . If to rid ourselves form , asserted the limited powers of the of the present rule of Massachusetts and government under the ...
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... sion , " let it receive your best flight of eloquence to strike to the heart and speak to the feelings of my deluded countrymen of South Carolina . The Union must be preserved , without blood if this be possible ; but it must be pre ...
... sion , " let it receive your best flight of eloquence to strike to the heart and speak to the feelings of my deluded countrymen of South Carolina . The Union must be preserved , without blood if this be possible ; but it must be pre ...
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... sion of slavery , ended in its limitation . battle - field ; emigrants from the free and The territory was gained , and its first from the slave States met on the soil of production was the Democratic Free - soil Kansas , in rival ...
... sion of slavery , ended in its limitation . battle - field ; emigrants from the free and The territory was gained , and its first from the slave States met on the soil of production was the Democratic Free - soil Kansas , in rival ...
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... sion and ill temper . Even though the hazards , can their conduct be accounted Southern people will not do so much as for . Instant measures were taken by listen to us , let us calmly consider their them to array the whole region south ...
... sion and ill temper . Even though the hazards , can their conduct be accounted Southern people will not do so much as for . Instant measures were taken by listen to us , let us calmly consider their them to array the whole region south ...
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National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and ..., Volumen1 Evert Augustus Duyckinck Vista de fragmentos - 1861 |
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Página 126 - 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 23 - 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.
Página 23 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 123 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 34 - Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 87 - 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 4 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock...
Página 91 - Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Página 88 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up,
Página 84 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.