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... causes with the other . are stated in full . If we wish to find the immediate cause of the secession of South Carolina , the immediate cause of all is the election of Lincoln . Mr. MAXCY GREGO . The gentleman who just resumed his seat ...
... causes with the other . are stated in full . If we wish to find the immediate cause of the secession of South Carolina , the immediate cause of all is the election of Lincoln . Mr. MAXCY GREGO . The gentleman who just resumed his seat ...
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... cause of our secession , but on matters connected with slavery . My objection to the other address is , that it ... cause which in- duced South Carolina to secede , it was not improper to go into previous causes which led to that result ...
... cause of our secession , but on matters connected with slavery . My objection to the other address is , that it ... cause which in- duced South Carolina to secede , it was not improper to go into previous causes which led to that result ...
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... cause , as we trust , to indulge towards us common sympathies and to contract cordial relations . In such a purpose the committee entirely and unanimously concur , and they recommend that every proper measure be adopted to accomplish ...
... cause , as we trust , to indulge towards us common sympathies and to contract cordial relations . In such a purpose the committee entirely and unanimously concur , and they recommend that every proper measure be adopted to accomplish ...
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... cause : but if his policy should be carried out in violation of any of the prin- ciples set forth in the Georgia platform , that would be such an act of aggression which ought to be met as therein pro- vided for . If his policy shall be ...
... cause : but if his policy should be carried out in violation of any of the prin- ciples set forth in the Georgia platform , that would be such an act of aggression which ought to be met as therein pro- vided for . If his policy shall be ...
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... cause is my cause , and their destiny is my destiny ; and I trust this will be the ulti- mate course of all . The greatest curse that can befall a free people is civil war . But , as I said , let us call a convention of the people ; let ...
... cause is my cause , and their destiny is my destiny ; and I trust this will be the ulti- mate course of all . The greatest curse that can befall a free people is civil war . But , as I said , let us call a convention of the people ; let ...
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Page 222 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 257 - 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...
Page 106 - 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?
Page 105 - Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Page 104 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect Union.
Page 105 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 103 - 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 134 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 105 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 106 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.