The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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How to Meet it Hinton Rowan Helper. that carried out Jackson's military dispositions when secession was threatened in South Carolina thirty years before , and by other officers concerned , particularly by Major Anderson , a keen ...
How to Meet it Hinton Rowan Helper. that carried out Jackson's military dispositions when secession was threatened in South Carolina thirty years before , and by other officers concerned , particularly by Major Anderson , a keen ...
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... military question , that the fort should now be evacuated ; they argued that the evacuation of this one fort would be recognised by the country as merely a military necessity arising from the neglect of the last administration . Lincoln ...
... military question , that the fort should now be evacuated ; they argued that the evacuation of this one fort would be recognised by the country as merely a military necessity arising from the neglect of the last administration . Lincoln ...
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... military adviser is obvious , but it seems to have been a lesser risk than he did take in delaying so long to overrule his Cabinet . It is precisely characteristic of his strength and of his weakness that he did not at once yield to his ...
... military adviser is obvious , but it seems to have been a lesser risk than he did take in delaying so long to overrule his Cabinet . It is precisely characteristic of his strength and of his weakness that he did not at once yield to his ...
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... military force of the North was insignificant , and that of the South clearly superior to it ; and even when they began to tell , it was bound to be very long before their full weight could be brought to bear . And the object which was ...
... military force of the North was insignificant , and that of the South clearly superior to it ; and even when they began to tell , it was bound to be very long before their full weight could be brought to bear . And the object which was ...
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... military writers , operating on interior lines ; that is , the different portions of them lay nearer to one another than did the different portions of the Northern forces , and could be more quickly brought to converge on the same point ...
... military writers , operating on interior lines ; that is , the different portions of them lay nearer to one another than did the different portions of the Northern forces , and could be more quickly brought to converge on the same point ...
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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...