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... Defence and Explanation of the Practice - Platonic Doctrine of Pre - existing Souls , and its Application to Mormon Polygamy - General Features of Polygamy among the Mormons - Effects of the System - Moral Perverseness and Laxity ...
... Defence and Explanation of the Practice - Platonic Doctrine of Pre - existing Souls , and its Application to Mormon Polygamy - General Features of Polygamy among the Mormons - Effects of the System - Moral Perverseness and Laxity ...
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... Defence - Difficult Position of Major Anderson at Charleston - His repeated Warnings to the Government to strengthen the South Carolina Works - Treacherous Proceedings of Floyd , the Secretary of War - Remonstrances of General Scott ...
... Defence - Difficult Position of Major Anderson at Charleston - His repeated Warnings to the Government to strengthen the South Carolina Works - Treacherous Proceedings of Floyd , the Secretary of War - Remonstrances of General Scott ...
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... Defence in the West - Inauguration of Mr. Jefferson Davis as Permanent President of the Confederate States - His Address on that Occasion 329 CHAPTER XXXIX . Dissatisfaction in the Southern States at the Conduct of the War - Expedition ...
... Defence in the West - Inauguration of Mr. Jefferson Davis as Permanent President of the Confederate States - His Address on that Occasion 329 CHAPTER XXXIX . Dissatisfaction in the Southern States at the Conduct of the War - Expedition ...
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... Defence across that State - Island No. 10 , in the Mississippi- Evacuation of New Madrid by the Southern Forces - Digging of a Canal by the Federals - Abandonment of various Positions by the Confederates - General Grant at Pittsburg ...
... Defence across that State - Island No. 10 , in the Mississippi- Evacuation of New Madrid by the Southern Forces - Digging of a Canal by the Federals - Abandonment of various Positions by the Confederates - General Grant at Pittsburg ...
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... Defence of Fort Sumter 259 The Garrote 105 . • Maryland Heights , Harper's Ferry 265 Henry Clay 108 Fortress Monroe • 270 Kane and his Companions in their Vessel . President Fillmore 109 • Night March on Harper's Ferry 271 114 . Captain ...
... Defence of Fort Sumter 259 The Garrote 105 . • Maryland Heights , Harper's Ferry 265 Henry Clay 108 Fortress Monroe • 270 Kane and his Companions in their Vessel . President Fillmore 109 • Night March on Harper's Ferry 271 114 . Captain ...
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Página 253 - Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Página 152 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 584 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 584 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 242 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Página 262 - 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 408 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 252 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of 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...
Página 239 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Página 200 - We, the people of the State of South 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...