Southern Hatred of the American Government, the People of the North, and Free Institutions |
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... determination to resist to the death , remember that we have able military leaders , and put implicit confidence in the wisdom of their measures . They are cheerful and confident at the prospect before us . Let not the people be ...
... determination to resist to the death , remember that we have able military leaders , and put implicit confidence in the wisdom of their measures . They are cheerful and confident at the prospect before us . Let not the people be ...
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... determined resistance . Southern men will only fight with more desperate valór , knowing that they are battling for their wives and little ones , whose lives are threatened by an atrocious and insolent invader . They will meet Lincoln's ...
... determined resistance . Southern men will only fight with more desperate valór , knowing that they are battling for their wives and little ones , whose lives are threatened by an atrocious and insolent invader . They will meet Lincoln's ...
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... determined to sever its bonds , and establish a new confederacy for themselves . The experiment instituted by our Revolutionary fathers , of a voluntary union of sovereign States for purposes specified in OF FREE INSTITUTIONS . 19.
... determined to sever its bonds , and establish a new confederacy for themselves . The experiment instituted by our Revolutionary fathers , of a voluntary union of sovereign States for purposes specified in OF FREE INSTITUTIONS . 19.
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... determined to respect no law but their own will . The government had ceased to answer the ends for which it was ordained and established . To save ourselves from a revolution which , in its silent but rapid progress , was about to place ...
... determined to respect no law but their own will . The government had ceased to answer the ends for which it was ordained and established . To save ourselves from a revolution which , in its silent but rapid progress , was about to place ...
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... determine at once and without dissent as honor and patriotism and duty to God re- quire . Fellow - citizens , lull not yourselves into a fatal security . Be prepared for every contingency . This is our only hope for a sure and honorable ...
... determine at once and without dissent as honor and patriotism and duty to God re- quire . Fellow - citizens , lull not yourselves into a fatal security . Be prepared for every contingency . This is our only hope for a sure and honorable ...
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SOUTHERN HATRED OF THE AMER GO William Lloyd 1805-1879 Garrison, Comp,Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congr No preview available - 2016 |
SOUTHERN HATRED OF THE AMER GO William Lloyd 1805-1879 Garrison, Comp,Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congr No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 3 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; 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 3 - He was right. What was conjecture with him is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. 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 4 - It is, indeed, in conformity with the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of his ordinances, or to question them. For his own purposes he has made one race to differ from another, as he has made ' one star to differ from another in glory.
Page 3 - The new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery as it exists amongst us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the " rock upon which the old Union would split.
Page 4 - The great objects of humanity are best attained when conformed to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our Confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone, which was rejected by the first builders, 'is become the chief stone of the corner
Page 22 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he kr.oweth that he hath but a short time.
Page 3 - The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] 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 19 - When a long course of class legislation, directed not to the general welfare, but to the aggrandizement of the Northern section of the Union, culminated in a warfare on the domestic institutions of the Southern States; when the dogmas of a sectional party, substituted for the provisions of the constitutional compact, threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of the States, six of those States, withdrawing from the Union, confederated together to exercise the right and perform the duty of instituting...
Page 19 - Bastiles filled with prisoners, arrested without civil process or indictment duly found; the writ of habeas corpus suspended by Executive mandate; a State Legislature controlled by the imprisonment of members whose avowed principles suggested to the Federal Executive that there might be another added to the list of seceded States; elections held under threats of a military power; civil officers...
Page 2 - Free society! We sicken of the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moonstruck theorists? All the Northern and especially the New England States are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen.