 American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Contitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every...  Southern History of the War - Página 366por Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Wilmer L. Jones - 2006 - 392 páginas
...suppression of freedom of speech and of the press, and the disregard of state rights." The key plank declared that, after "four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, . . . [we] demand immediate cessation of hostilities" so that peace may be restored on the basis of... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...a singular misapprehension of the strong current of loyal opinion. It pronounced the fatal words, " four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war," which vexed the ears of the heroic soldiers and of the faithful citizens alike. More untimely and infatuated... | |
 | Robert Tracy McKenzie - 2006 - 320 páginas
...Democrats" (or "Copperheads") to insert an antiwar plank into the party's platform. Condemning the past "four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war," the plank called for an immediate cease-fire followed by negotiations with the Confederate states in... | |
 | Dale Anderson - 2007 - 100 páginas
...Proclamation and boldly declared that it wanted an end to the war: This convention does explicitly declare ... that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, ... justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a... | |
 | 590 páginas
...of the Constitution, and the banishment of liberty from American soil. In 1 864 that party declared that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, there should be a cessation of hostilities. They then declared " that the Constitution had been violated... | |
 | Dale Anderson - 2007 - 100 páginas
...The party's platform hinted that it would end emancipation and boldly called for an end to the war: After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2007 - 272 páginas
...nominated McClellan for president and a Peace Democrat for vice president on a platform that declared: "After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war . . . [we] demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an... | |
 | Robert E. Bonner - 2007 - 296 páginas
...key moment came at the Chicago convention, where delegates adopted a party platform that lamented the "four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war." The suggested alternative was a cease-fire to permit negotiations with the enemy. What was intended... | |
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