The American Rebellion: Some Facts and Reflections for the Consideration of the English People ... |
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... secession , and a confederacy , where slavery shall rule and control its own affairs unrestrictedly . " Beyond controversy this is the sole cause of the attempted revolution - a revolution fully determined upon by the present ...
... secession , and a confederacy , where slavery shall rule and control its own affairs unrestrictedly . " Beyond controversy this is the sole cause of the attempted revolution - a revolution fully determined upon by the present ...
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... secession is foreign to our Con- stitution , revolutionary and suicidal , setting out in anarchy , and finding its ultimate issue in despotism . " Resolved , That the national Government deserves our loyal adhesion and unstinted support ...
... secession is foreign to our Con- stitution , revolutionary and suicidal , setting out in anarchy , and finding its ultimate issue in despotism . " Resolved , That the national Government deserves our loyal adhesion and unstinted support ...
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... SECESSION A FALLACY . We need not here recall the many and powerful declara- tions of those eminent expounders of the Constitution , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster and Thomas Benton , against the right of secession . That they ignored any ...
... SECESSION A FALLACY . We need not here recall the many and powerful declara- tions of those eminent expounders of the Constitution , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster and Thomas Benton , against the right of secession . That they ignored any ...
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... secession as it is interpreted by the more rational of the leaders of the movement in the Slave States , when it says : " As sovereign States , each with its own Legislature and Govern- ment , and not as mere counties in a kingdom , or ...
... secession as it is interpreted by the more rational of the leaders of the movement in the Slave States , when it says : " As sovereign States , each with its own Legislature and Govern- ment , and not as mere counties in a kingdom , or ...
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... SECESSION . 21 authority , it is a right open alike to individuals and com- munities , and would , if conceded , plunge any State or society into anarchy and social dissolution . We say the Southerners themselves have repudiated the ...
... SECESSION . 21 authority , it is a right open alike to individuals and com- munities , and would , if conceded , plunge any State or society into anarchy and social dissolution . We say the Southerners themselves have repudiated the ...
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Page 9 - 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.
Page 30 - African slavery as it exists among 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 10 - The negro by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.
Page 16 - I cannot too earnestly impress upon you the necessity of removing the slavery agitation from the halls of Congress and presidential conflicts. It is conceded that Congress has no power to interfere with slavery in the states where it exists; and if it can now be established, as is clearly the doctrine of the constitution, that Congress has no...
Page 18 - Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.
Page 6 - Without pausing for an answer, I will state my own position to be, that such a result would be a species of revolution, by which the purposes of the government would be destroyed, and the observance of its mere forms entitled to no respect. In that event, in such...
Page 18 - Union to take place in any way whatever. There will be here only one nation and one government, and there will be the same republic and the same constitutional Union that have already survived a dozen national changes, and changes of government in almost every other country. These will stand hereafter, as they are now, objects of human wonder and human affection.
Page 10 - It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics.
Page 18 - You cannot be .too decided or too explicit in making known to the French government that there is not now, nor has there been, nor will there be any the least idea existing in this government of suffering a dissolution of this Union to take place in any way whatever. There will be here only one nation and one government, and there will be the same Republic, and the same constitutional Union that have already survived a dozen national changes, and changes of government in almost every other country.
Page 10 - In the conflict, thus far, success has been on our side, complete throughout the length and breadth of the Confederate States. It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted ; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.