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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Página 52
... military , forming as in the proces- sion of the morning , accompanied him , with the commit- tee of arrangements , to the White House . On reaching the executive mansion the troops formed in double line , on Maine Avenue , and the ...
... military , forming as in the proces- sion of the morning , accompanied him , with the commit- tee of arrangements , to the White House . On reaching the executive mansion the troops formed in double line , on Maine Avenue , and the ...
Página 53
... military patrols were on duty all over the city , and the greatest vigilance was enjoined upon and observed by the regulars . The com- The display of soldiery in the procession was very fine , but not equal to the 22d of February ...
... military patrols were on duty all over the city , and the greatest vigilance was enjoined upon and observed by the regulars . The com- The display of soldiery in the procession was very fine , but not equal to the 22d of February ...
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... military stores , arms and munitions of war , then , undoubtedly , rebellion and all its train of blood would have been averted until the next Presidential election , as it would give them an additional four years to prepare for the ...
... military stores , arms and munitions of war , then , undoubtedly , rebellion and all its train of blood would have been averted until the next Presidential election , as it would give them an additional four years to prepare for the ...
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... military re - organization , and that every man in the State , between the ages of eighteen and forty - five , should be armed by the State with the most efficient weapons of modern war- fare , and also recommended raising , without ...
... military re - organization , and that every man in the State , between the ages of eighteen and forty - five , should be armed by the State with the most efficient weapons of modern war- fare , and also recommended raising , without ...
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... military forces of the State . A Southern Rights club hoisted a banner in one of the public squares , with this inscription , EQUALITY OF THE STATES , the painting of a rattlesnake , with the motto , - DON'T TREAD ON ME ; and though but ...
... military forces of the State . A Southern Rights club hoisted a banner in one of the public squares , with this inscription , EQUALITY OF THE STATES , the painting of a rattlesnake , with the motto , - DON'T TREAD ON ME ; and though but ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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?