The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion, from November 6, 1860, to July 4, 1864: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration |
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... ment was hopeless - Revolution being the predetermined purpose of the reckless men who had obtained control of the State machinery of most of the slaveholding States . This conviction will be strengthened by study of what has since ...
... ment was hopeless - Revolution being the predetermined purpose of the reckless men who had obtained control of the State machinery of most of the slaveholding States . This conviction will be strengthened by study of what has since ...
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... ment - Orders of the War Department enforcing the Draft of 1862 - Gen . McClellan's Recommen- dation of a Draft in 1861 - Colored Soldiers and their Pay - Opinion of Attorney General Bates respecting the pay of Rev. S. Harrison ...
... ment - Orders of the War Department enforcing the Draft of 1862 - Gen . McClellan's Recommen- dation of a Draft in 1861 - Colored Soldiers and their Pay - Opinion of Attorney General Bates respecting the pay of Rev. S. Harrison ...
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... ment , and requesting General Government to avoid collision with Southern States . Gov. Letcher communicated the Resolutions of the Legislature of New York , expressing the utmost disdain , and saying that " the threat conveyed can ...
... ment , and requesting General Government to avoid collision with Southern States . Gov. Letcher communicated the Resolutions of the Legislature of New York , expressing the utmost disdain , and saying that " the threat conveyed can ...
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... ment had been rejected by their Northern confederates , therefore every consideration of duty , interest , honor and patriotism re- quires that Virginia should declare her con- nection with the Government to be dissolved . 5th . The ...
... ment had been rejected by their Northern confederates , therefore every consideration of duty , interest , honor and patriotism re- quires that Virginia should declare her con- nection with the Government to be dissolved . 5th . The ...
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... ment to protect Slavery in the Territories and to guarantee the right of transit of slaves through the Free States . February 2d . The Senate passed by a vote of 25 to 11 , resolutions appealing to the Southern States to stop the ...
... ment to protect Slavery in the Territories and to guarantee the right of transit of slaves through the Free States . February 2d . The Senate passed by a vote of 25 to 11 , resolutions appealing to the Southern States to stop the ...
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Page 97 - Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 89 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 106 - I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 136 - 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 108 - 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 105 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Page 106 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Page 97 - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Page 224 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 105 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that " the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?