Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 1 |
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... Election of Lincoln , 34 . CHAPTER II . PRELIMINARY REBELLIOUS MOVEMENTS . The Votes at the Election , 36. - Incendiary Work of Politicians , 37. - The Press and the Pulpit , 38. - Designs of the Oligarchy , 39. - Firing " the Southern ...
... Election of Lincoln , 34 . CHAPTER II . PRELIMINARY REBELLIOUS MOVEMENTS . The Votes at the Election , 36. - Incendiary Work of Politicians , 37. - The Press and the Pulpit , 38. - Designs of the Oligarchy , 39. - Firing " the Southern ...
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... Election awed by Bayonets - Senator Mason's Letter , 884. - North Carolina ruled by Usurpers - Ordinance of Secession adopted , 385. - Seizure of the Arsenal at Fayetteville - Mischievous Work begins in Tennessee , 386. - Tennessee ...
... Election awed by Bayonets - Senator Mason's Letter , 884. - North Carolina ruled by Usurpers - Ordinance of Secession adopted , 385. - Seizure of the Arsenal at Fayetteville - Mischievous Work begins in Tennessee , 386. - Tennessee ...
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... election . For this purpose it had been sent to Masonic Hall , at five o'clock in the afternoon ; and then and there the electric spark , which kindled the prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was ...
... election . For this purpose it had been sent to Masonic Hall , at five o'clock in the afternoon ; and then and there the electric spark , which kindled the prepared combustibles of civil war into a quick and devouring flame , was ...
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... election of either Douglas , Breckinridge , or the nominee of the Republican party , whoever he might be . The Convention adjourned on the second day of the session , and that night a ratification meeting was held in Monument Square ...
... election of either Douglas , Breckinridge , or the nominee of the Republican party , whoever he might be . The Convention adjourned on the second day of the session , and that night a ratification meeting was held in Monument Square ...
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... election of the Republican candidate , which might serve them as a pretext for rebellion - men who afterward became leaders in the great insurrection against the National Government - was charged with complicity in disunion schemes . In ...
... election of the Republican candidate , which might serve them as a pretext for rebellion - men who afterward became leaders in the great insurrection against the National Government - was charged with complicity in disunion schemes . In ...
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action adopted afterward Alabama appointed April arms Army Arsenal assembled authority Baltimore Calhoun called Capital Captain Castle Pinckney Charleston citizens Colonel command Commissioners Committee Confederate Congress conspirators Constitution Convention Crittenden Compromise Davis December declared delegates disloyal duty election excitement February Federal flag Florida Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts Free-labor Fugitive Slave Law garrison Georgia Governor guns harbor honor House hundred insurgents James January Jefferson Jefferson Davis John Kentucky Legislature letter Lieutenant Lincoln Louisiana loyal Major Anderson March Maryland ment military Mississippi Missouri Montgomery Moultrie National Government North officers Ordinance of Secession party patriotic peace Pickens politicians President re-enforcements rebellion regiment Republic Republican resolution secede secessionists Secretary Secretary of War seized Senate sent sentiment session Slave-labor Slavery Slemmer South Carolina Southern Confederacy speech Sumter telegraph Texas thousand tion Toombs traitors treason troops Union United Virginia vote Washington City Wigfall William York
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Page 244 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Page 289 - 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 181 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 559 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 372 - 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 288 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect, are legally void; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary, or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 290 - 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
Page 73 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 287 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 244 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the...