The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc, Volumen1Virtue & Yorston, 1862 |
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... house , to endanger the house of his DISPOSITION OF TENNESSEE . the Government , treason ? Is 52 THE WAR WITH THE SOUTH .
... house , to endanger the house of his DISPOSITION OF TENNESSEE . the Government , treason ? Is 52 THE WAR WITH THE SOUTH .
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... House of Representatives , were among the first to deny emphatically the assumed right of secession , and to call it treason . They both have continued as they began , the firm assertors of the Federal authority and the resolute ...
... House of Representatives , were among the first to deny emphatically the assumed right of secession , and to call it treason . They both have continued as they began , the firm assertors of the Federal authority and the resolute ...
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... Morris Island 3 Cooper River 17 Fort Moultrie 11 Light House Inlet 1 Castle Pinckney 8 Fort Sumter 13 Fort John non 16 14. Fort Ripley 16 City Battery . Savannah RR W. Ridgway , sc . while , the people of the North remained in a.
... Morris Island 3 Cooper River 17 Fort Moultrie 11 Light House Inlet 1 Castle Pinckney 8 Fort Sumter 13 Fort John non 16 14. Fort Ripley 16 City Battery . Savannah RR W. Ridgway , sc . while , the people of the North remained in a.
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... house and post- office in Charleston ; and on the same day every officer of the customs - col- lector , naval officer , surveyor , and ap- praiser - resigned their offices . And this , although it was well known from the language of my ...
... house and post- office in Charleston ; and on the same day every officer of the customs - col- lector , naval officer , surveyor , and ap- praiser - resigned their offices . And this , although it was well known from the language of my ...
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... House of Representatives a written memorandum that no such attempt should be made , ' provided that no re- inforcements should be sent into those forts , and their relative military status shall remain as at present . ' And al- though ...
... House of Representatives a written memorandum that no such attempt should be made , ' provided that no re- inforcements should be sent into those forts , and their relative military status shall remain as at present . ' And al- though ...
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Página 42 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said 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 109 - Resolved, 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Página 111 - 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 115 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Página 96 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Página 158 - 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 113 - ... 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. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions...
Página 112 - 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 111 - Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of...
Página 42 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.