The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous FailureA personal memoir and observations of the politics and overall secession by the Confederacy leading up to and during the U.S. Civil War. |
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... carried him off to a filthy negro jail , where he was lodged , and kept in soli- tary confinement for eight weeks , his house and family in the mean time being placed in custody of tw of Gen- eral Winder's satellites . After his arrest ...
... carried him off to a filthy negro jail , where he was lodged , and kept in soli- tary confinement for eight weeks , his house and family in the mean time being placed in custody of tw of Gen- eral Winder's satellites . After his arrest ...
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... carry back peace to our distracted country , happiness to the affrighted fireside , restore stability to our threatened institutions , and give hope and confidence once more to the friends of liberty throughout the world . Let us do ...
... carry back peace to our distracted country , happiness to the affrighted fireside , restore stability to our threatened institutions , and give hope and confidence once more to the friends of liberty throughout the world . Let us do ...
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... carried off , with no labor left to carry on the ordinary pur- suits of agriculture ; with the country groaning under a weight of debt heretofore unknown to our people ; with a system of taxation twice tenfold greater than ever before ...
... carried off , with no labor left to carry on the ordinary pur- suits of agriculture ; with the country groaning under a weight of debt heretofore unknown to our people ; with a system of taxation twice tenfold greater than ever before ...
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... carried eight Southern States and seventy - eight South- ern electoral votes , which must be recovered , or their power was gone forever . Slavery could not be strengthened by its extension into new territory , but Democracy might , by ...
... carried eight Southern States and seventy - eight South- ern electoral votes , which must be recovered , or their power was gone forever . Slavery could not be strengthened by its extension into new territory , but Democracy might , by ...
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... carried ev- ery Southern state against him except three - Maryland , Tennessee , and Kentucky . It was by these means , and by a resort to such expe- dients , that they were enabled , by making a foot - ball for party of the slavery ...
... carried ev- ery Southern state against him except three - Maryland , Tennessee , and Kentucky . It was by these means , and by a resort to such expe- dients , that they were enabled , by making a foot - ball for party of the slavery ...
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Page 392 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 180 - 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.
Page 108 - Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 180 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 325 - ... the best and freest Government — the most equal in its rights, the most just in its decisions, the most lenient in its measures, and the most aspiring in its principles to elevate the race of men, that the sun of heaven ever shone upon.
Page 187 - Territories where the same is established or recognized ; nor the power to prohibit the removal or transportation of persons held to labor, or involuntary service in any State or Territory of the United States...
Page 34 - Their object is disunion: but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you really ready to incur its guilt ? If you are, on the heads of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences; on their heads be the dishonor, but on yours may fall the punishment. On your unhappy State will inevitably fall all the evils of the conflict you force upon the government of your country.
Page 397 - The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.
Page 398 - The resolution, in the language above quoted, was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject matter.
Page 150 - Congress deemed it wise and prudent to refrain from deciding the matters in controversy then, either by affirming or repealing the Mexican laws, or by an act declaratory of the true intent of the Constitution and the extent of the protection afforded by it to slave property in the territories, so your committee are not prepared...