General Butler in New Orleans: Being a History of the Administration of the Department of the Gulf in the Year 1862, with an Account of the Capture of New Orleans, and a Sketch of the Previous Career of the General, Civil and Military |
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... action , it has no sinister effect , for the reason that he will himself discover and correct the error , before any ' barren spec- tator ' has seized upon it . " • " He is faithful and tenacious to the last degree . There is no ...
... action , it has no sinister effect , for the reason that he will himself discover and correct the error , before any ' barren spec- tator ' has seized upon it . " • " He is faithful and tenacious to the last degree . There is no ...
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... action , is not to fail , and human progress be set back a thousand years , because of the difference of opinion as to the supposed rights and interests of a few negroes . " As well might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the ...
... action , is not to fail , and human progress be set back a thousand years , because of the difference of opinion as to the supposed rights and interests of a few negroes . " As well might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the ...
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... actions , is to overrate the understanding , and underrate the moral worth of the actor . We flatter ourselves that we are very great and very bad beings ; the humiliating truth seems to be , that we are rather good and extremely little ...
... actions , is to overrate the understanding , and underrate the moral worth of the actor . We flatter ourselves that we are very great and very bad beings ; the humiliating truth seems to be , that we are rather good and extremely little ...
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... action you have taken , with a single exception . If I rightly understood the telegraphic dispatch , I think that your action 94 ANNAPOLIS .
... action you have taken , with a single exception . If I rightly understood the telegraphic dispatch , I think that your action 94 ANNAPOLIS .
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... action in tendering to Governor Hicks the assistance of our Massachusetts troops to suppress a threatened servile insurrection among the hostile people of Maryland was unnecessary . I hope that the fuller dispatches , which are on their ...
... action in tendering to Governor Hicks the assistance of our Massachusetts troops to suppress a threatened servile insurrection among the hostile people of Maryland was unnecessary . I hope that the fuller dispatches , which are on their ...
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Page 327 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies ) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 482 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 172 - States wholly or in part under insurrectionary control, where the laws of the United States are so far opposed and resisted that they...
Page 450 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America ; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
Page 612 - Butler to be a felon, deserving of capital punishment. I do order that he be no longer considered or treated simply as a public enemy of the Confederate States of America, but as an outlaw and common enemy of mankind, and that in the event of his capture the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging...
Page 46 - That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject-matters...
Page 604 - I, therefore, felt no hesitation in taking the substance of the wealthy, who had caused the war, to feed the innocent poor, who had suffered by the war. And I shall now leave you with the proud consciousness that I carry with me the blessings of the humble and loyal, under the roof of the cottage and in the cabin of the slave, and so am quite content to incur the sneers of the salon^ or the curses of the rich.
Page 234 - The Flag-Officer, having heard all the opinions expressed by the different commanders, is of the opinion that whatever is to be done will have to be done quickly...
Page 45 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same...
Page 39 - ... to control this nation through a disjointed democracy, or any material obstacle in that party which shall tend to throw us out of that rule and control, we shall then resort to the dissolution of the Union. The compromises in the Constitution, under the circumstances, were sufficient for our fathers, but, under the altered condition of our country from that period, leave to the South no resource but dissolution ; for no amendments to the Constitution could be reached through a convention of the...