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It has been my fortune , in the course of the last two years , to make the intimate personal ac- quaintance of more than five hundred mem- bers of this Russian protesting party , including not less than three hundred of the so - called ...
It has been my fortune , in the course of the last two years , to make the intimate personal ac- quaintance of more than five hundred mem- bers of this Russian protesting party , including not less than three hundred of the so - called ...
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... Union if those demands were not complied with , he as constantly de- clared that he was no disunionist . Of course he could do this only by setting at defiance the plainest meaning of words and the clear- est significance of acts .
... Union if those demands were not complied with , he as constantly de- clared that he was no disunionist . Of course he could do this only by setting at defiance the plainest meaning of words and the clear- est significance of acts .
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Of course it is to be quiet and confidential . I have been acting with- out knowledge of your views , upon vital questions . But I find it safe to trust the head and heart when both are under the guidance of right motives .
Of course it is to be quiet and confidential . I have been acting with- out knowledge of your views , upon vital questions . But I find it safe to trust the head and heart when both are under the guidance of right motives .
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fidence , he was always free to repeat his well - formed convictions , and even in some degree to foreshadow his prob- able course . It is gratifying to note in this connection , especially since it evinces his acute judgment of human ...
fidence , he was always free to repeat his well - formed convictions , and even in some degree to foreshadow his prob- able course . It is gratifying to note in this connection , especially since it evinces his acute judgment of human ...
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The popular fever must run its course . If disunion came he avowed he would yield to the misfortune . His destiny , he said , lay with Georgia and the South . It will appear from this that if Mr. Stephens was not a flexible reasoner ...
The popular fever must run its course . If disunion came he avowed he would yield to the misfortune . His destiny , he said , lay with Georgia and the South . It will appear from this that if Mr. Stephens was not a flexible reasoner ...
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Página 278 - 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 282 - 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 283 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath 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 281 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the .Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 282 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Página 279 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 280 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 282 - 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 282 - 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 279 - The Union is much older than the Constitution/ It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
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| Título | The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volumen13;Volumen35 Volúmenes351-367 de American periodical series, 1850-1900 |
| Colaboradores | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Making of America Project, Richard Watson Gilder |
| Editor | Century Company, 1888 |
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