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... sentiments , afterward endorsed by every seceding State , are doubtless , in substance , sincere . They may be received as the secession creed . Though loosely worded they are intelligible . Taken in connection with the steadily-
... sentiments , afterward endorsed by every seceding State , are doubtless , in substance , sincere . They may be received as the secession creed . Though loosely worded they are intelligible . Taken in connection with the steadily-
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... sentiments ; or as they afterward phrase it , that public opinion in the North had given the sanction of religion to a great political error . I pray you to remark that the South secedes from the Union because of these opinions . She ...
... sentiments ; or as they afterward phrase it , that public opinion in the North had given the sanction of religion to a great political error . I pray you to remark that the South secedes from the Union because of these opinions . She ...
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... sentiment , these opinions render vain ( she says ) all hope of remedy ; for her Government is founded on opinions diametrically the reverse . And I show you further , that in this she stands alone among the nations calling themselves ...
... sentiment , these opinions render vain ( she says ) all hope of remedy ; for her Government is founded on opinions diametrically the reverse . And I show you further , that in this she stands alone among the nations calling themselves ...
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... sentiments , -no man who believes as Washington and Jefferson believed , can ever reach the Presidential chair , or ever receive , from the occupant of that chair , any office , at home or abroad , civil or military , of any importance ...
... sentiments , -no man who believes as Washington and Jefferson believed , can ever reach the Presidential chair , or ever receive , from the occupant of that chair , any office , at home or abroad , civil or military , of any importance ...
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... sentiment of Christendom . The invitation is to stand still , or sink back , while all other civilized nations advance . An eminent writer , alluding to certain ancient collegiate foundations of Europe , declared that they were not ...
... sentiment of Christendom . The invitation is to stand still , or sink back , while all other civilized nations advance . An eminent writer , alluding to certain ancient collegiate foundations of Europe , declared that they were not ...
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Page 10 - ... when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 6 - 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 4 - 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. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 10 - 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 3 - ... barbarians as they are, that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon's death.
Page 2 - A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be intrusted with the administration of the common Government because he has declared that that 'Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,' and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
Page 2 - States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions, and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution...
Page 7 - The spring-tide may, for aught I know, break upon us in the next session of Parliament. There is an evil fate upon us in all we do at home or abroad.