Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts of Abolitionism; Also, Results of Slavery Agitation and Emancipation; Together with Sundry Chapters on Despotism, Usurpations and Frauds |
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... facts contained in your " Logic of History , " ought to be read and pondered by every American citizen . Fanaticism and extreme views both North and South , to- gether with public corruption , are the fruitful sources of our national ...
... facts contained in your " Logic of History , " ought to be read and pondered by every American citizen . Fanaticism and extreme views both North and South , to- gether with public corruption , are the fruitful sources of our national ...
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... fact quoted . Another reason for presenting this work , is , that during the canvass of 1863 , I printed the first ... facts . To the conservatives of the country this work is especially dedicated , as the aggrega- tion of guilt and ...
... fact quoted . Another reason for presenting this work , is , that during the canvass of 1863 , I printed the first ... facts . To the conservatives of the country this work is especially dedicated , as the aggrega- tion of guilt and ...
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... Fact by Sallust ... Gov . Seymour on the Rotten - Borough System His Message of Jan. 5 , 1864 .... A Flexible Flatform ... Henry Clay's Opinion ... Free Speech Abolished ... Senator Howe on ... Petty Despotism ... Arrests for Wearing ...
... Fact by Sallust ... Gov . Seymour on the Rotten - Borough System His Message of Jan. 5 , 1864 .... A Flexible Flatform ... Henry Clay's Opinion ... Free Speech Abolished ... Senator Howe on ... Petty Despotism ... Arrests for Wearing ...
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... Facts pertaining to ... The Democra- cy of New York ... The Iowa Democracy ... Doctrine of the Kentucky Democracy ... FACTS AND FIGURES . Political sine qua non of Wisconsin Legislature .... Still re- fuse to yield an inch .... N . Y ...
... Facts pertaining to ... The Democra- cy of New York ... The Iowa Democracy ... Doctrine of the Kentucky Democracy ... FACTS AND FIGURES . Political sine qua non of Wisconsin Legislature .... Still re- fuse to yield an inch .... N . Y ...
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... facts , leaving the reader to form his own conclusions . Slavery has existed , under various phases , from the remotest periods of sacred and pro- fane history . In the 17th chap . of Genesis , v . 12 , 13 , 23 and 27 , the fact that ...
... facts , leaving the reader to form his own conclusions . Slavery has existed , under various phases , from the remotest periods of sacred and pro- fane history . In the 17th chap . of Genesis , v . 12 , 13 , 23 and 27 , the fact that ...
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abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists Administration agitation American anti-slavery army arrest authority believe bill Boston cause CHARLES SUMNER Chicago Tribune citizens civil committee compromise Congress Constitution Convention copperhead crime Crittenden Crittenden Compromise declared Democratic denounced despotism dissolution disunion duty election emancipation England ernment existence fact favor Federal force freedom fugitive slave Government habeas corpus Hartford Convention Jamaica JOHN BROWN Judge Advocate jury Kansas labor Legislature liberty Lincoln loyal Massachusetts ment military nation necessity negro never North Northern object officers Ohio opinion patriotic peace persons political present President principles proclamation proposition prosecution punishment purpose question radicals rebel rebellion Republican party resist resolutions Resolved Senator sentiment SEWARD slavery South Carolina Southern speech spirit stitution SUMNER Supreme Court tion traitors treason trial Union United usurpation Vallandigham vote Washington WENDELL PHILLIPS Wisconsin writ of habeas York Tribune
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Page 154 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page 149 - 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 149 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 73 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 161 - And if thou say in thine heart, " How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ? " when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 36 - President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 46 - The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and, gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
Page 10 - He that is born in thy house and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised ; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Page 149 - 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 126 - Resolved, That a national executive be instituted, to consist of a single person; to be chosen by the national legislature...