The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... Jefferson Davis , by far the most commanding man among them , now found himself - certainly it served him rightanxiously counselling delay , and spending nights in prayer before he 198 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... Jefferson Davis , by far the most commanding man among them , now found himself - certainly it served him rightanxiously counselling delay , and spending nights in prayer before he 198 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... Jefferson Davis , who had retired to his farm , was sent for to become President ; Stephens , as already said , became Vice - President . The delegates there were to continue in session for the present as the regular Congress . Whether ...
... Jefferson Davis , who had retired to his farm , was sent for to become President ; Stephens , as already said , became Vice - President . The delegates there were to continue in session for the present as the regular Congress . Whether ...
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... Jefferson Davis that the impending struggle must not be delayed . " Unless , " he said , you sprinkle blood in the face of the people of Alabama , they will be back in the old Union in ten days . " There is every reason to suppose that ...
... Jefferson Davis that the impending struggle must not be delayed . " Unless , " he said , you sprinkle blood in the face of the people of Alabama , they will be back in the old Union in ten days . " There is every reason to suppose that ...
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... Jefferson Davis , a tried political leader , to which Lincoln had to win his way , and the past experiences of the two men had been very different . The operations of war in which Lincoln had taken part were confined , according to his ...
... Jefferson Davis , a tried political leader , to which Lincoln had to win his way , and the past experiences of the two men had been very different . The operations of war in which Lincoln had taken part were confined , according to his ...
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... Jefferson Davis , on the other hand , started with knowledge of affairs , including military affairs ; he had been Secretary of War in Pierce's Cabinet and Chairman of the Senate Committee on War since then ; above all , he had been a ...
... Jefferson Davis , on the other hand , started with knowledge of affairs , including military affairs ; he had been Secretary of War in Pierce's Cabinet and Chairman of the Senate Committee on War since then ; above all , he had been a ...
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Página 180 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 132 - 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 427 - 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 249 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página 398 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Página 398 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday...
Página 132 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 426 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Página 297 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 180 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become...