The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volumen1G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1862 |
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... Maryland , declined to receive the commissioner from Mississippi . He vindi- cated the course by expressing strong Union sentiments ; notwithstanding which the commissioner of Mississippi to Maryland addressed a large meeting in ...
... Maryland , declined to receive the commissioner from Mississippi . He vindi- cated the course by expressing strong Union sentiments ; notwithstanding which the commissioner of Mississippi to Maryland addressed a large meeting in ...
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... Maryland , Secre- tary of Treasury , resigned , and Hon . John A. Dix , of New York , appointed in his place . An abolition meeting at Rochester , N. Y. , was broken up Jan. 12. The Star of the West arrived at New York , from Charleston ...
... Maryland , Secre- tary of Treasury , resigned , and Hon . John A. Dix , of New York , appointed in his place . An abolition meeting at Rochester , N. Y. , was broken up Jan. 12. The Star of the West arrived at New York , from Charleston ...
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... Maryland , Kentucky , Tennessee , North Carolina , New York , Ohio , Missouri , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Indiana , Illinois , Connecticut , New Hampshire , Vermont , Delaware , Rhode Island , and Massachusetts , Ex - President Tyler ...
... Maryland , Kentucky , Tennessee , North Carolina , New York , Ohio , Missouri , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Indiana , Illinois , Connecticut , New Hampshire , Vermont , Delaware , Rhode Island , and Massachusetts , Ex - President Tyler ...
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... Maryland ) , that neither the election of Lincoln , nor the non - execution of the fugitive slave law , nor both combined , constitute their grievances ; that the real cause of their discontent dates as far back as 1833 . In 1858 the ...
... Maryland ) , that neither the election of Lincoln , nor the non - execution of the fugitive slave law , nor both combined , constitute their grievances ; that the real cause of their discontent dates as far back as 1833 . In 1858 the ...
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... Maryland . In reply to a friendly letter from Capt . John Contee , of Prince George's County , urging him to call an extra ses- sion of the legislature , he says : - " I have no party attachments or prejudices that con- flict with my ...
... Maryland . In reply to a friendly letter from Capt . John Contee , of Prince George's County , urging him to call an extra ses- sion of the legislature , he says : - " I have no party attachments or prejudices that con- flict with my ...
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adjourned Alabama April arms arrived arsenal Baltimore batteries blessings cabinet called Capitol Captain Castle Pinckney Charleston cheers citizens command commissioners Confederacy Congress Constitution convention crowd December December 26 declared defend depot dispatch disunion duty excitement Faneuil Hall federal Florida Floyd Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts Georgia Governor Pickens guns were fired Hall honor House Howell Cobb hundred guns immense inaugural Jacob Thompson January Jefferson Davis legislature liberty Lincoln Major Anderson March Maryland Massachusetts meeting ment military minute-men Mississippi Missouri compromise morning Morris Island Moultrie navy North Northern o'clock officers ordinance ordinance of secession Palmetto flag passed patriotic peace President elect rebellion received resigned says secede secession Secretary Senate sent slavery soldiers South Caro South Carolina Southern speech stars and stripes streets Sumter Texas thousand tion treason troops Union United United States Senate Virginia Washington York
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Página 61 - 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 55 - 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 62 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth 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 54 - 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 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 60 - 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 60 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Página 62 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Página 59 - 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 57 - Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a 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?