The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion, of the Various Naval and Military Engagements, of the Heroic Deeds Performed by Armies and Individuals, and of Touching Scenes in the Field, the Camp, the Hospital, and the Cabin, Volume 1H. Bill, 1875 - United States |
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... slaveholders , accustomed to despotic power over the wretched serfs , whom they have driven , by the lash , to till their soil , have assumed a sort of baronial arrogance over all men who do not own slaves , and have claimed to be the ...
... slaveholders , accustomed to despotic power over the wretched serfs , whom they have driven , by the lash , to till their soil , have assumed a sort of baronial arrogance over all men who do not own slaves , and have claimed to be the ...
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... slaveholding rebels demanded that the Constitution of the United States , with its respect for the inalienable rights ... slaveholders , convert our free Republic into the great bulwark of slavery . If free Americans prove recreant , in ...
... slaveholding rebels demanded that the Constitution of the United States , with its respect for the inalienable rights ... slaveholders , convert our free Republic into the great bulwark of slavery . If free Americans prove recreant , in ...
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... slaveholders have their own way , either to take the control of the government , or to secede , and to establish such boundaries as they may please . This is the dotage of amiability . There is not an intelligent man , North or South ...
... slaveholders have their own way , either to take the control of the government , or to secede , and to establish such boundaries as they may please . This is the dotage of amiability . There is not an intelligent man , North or South ...
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... slaveholding oligarchy . New England was to be left out , a power so feeble , that it could be chastised whenever the slaveholders deemed that it merited chastisement . There are but two alternatives before us . Peaceful separation is a ...
... slaveholding oligarchy . New England was to be left out , a power so feeble , that it could be chastised whenever the slaveholders deemed that it merited chastisement . There are but two alternatives before us . Peaceful separation is a ...
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... slaveholder wielding the plantation lash , is to be established upon the ruins of our free Constitution - or whether ... slaveholders to the Union : " If the Southern Confederates would lay down their arms and come back again into the ...
... slaveholder wielding the plantation lash , is to be established upon the ruins of our free Constitution - or whether ... slaveholders to the Union : " If the Southern Confederates would lay down their arms and come back again into the ...
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Page 87 - 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 battle-field 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.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 34 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 86 - 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 34 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 65 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Page 64 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 69 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 86 - 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?
Page 56 - But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which...