Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's Administration, from 1860 to Its Close. Including a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Eight Letters from Mr. Buchanan Never Before Published, and Numerous Miscellaneous Articles |
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... fire the first gun . The Peace Convention , he said , was now in session in this city , and its president , ex - President Tyler , had this morning assured him that no attack would be made on the fort . The President expressed the ...
... fire the first gun . The Peace Convention , he said , was now in session in this city , and its president , ex - President Tyler , had this morning assured him that no attack would be made on the fort . The President expressed the ...
Page 71
... fires , Strike for the green graves of your sires , God , and your native land . ” Let me not be misunderstood . I entertain no hostile feel- ings against the South . On the contrary , I have always been , and trust I shall ever ...
... fires , Strike for the green graves of your sires , God , and your native land . ” Let me not be misunderstood . I entertain no hostile feel- ings against the South . On the contrary , I have always been , and trust I shall ever ...
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... fire , they have been defeated in many a well - fought battle , and the pressure on nearly every side is becoming more and more severe every day . Our navy , soon I trust to be in a condi- tion " to defy the world in arms , " has ...
... fire , they have been defeated in many a well - fought battle , and the pressure on nearly every side is becoming more and more severe every day . Our navy , soon I trust to be in a condi- tion " to defy the world in arms , " has ...
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... fire up the Southern heart " and force the States into passing ordinances of secession , seizing the Government property , etc. One senator ( Yulee ) , whose letter fell into loyal hands some time during the war , wrote to his State ...
... fire up the Southern heart " and force the States into passing ordinances of secession , seizing the Government property , etc. One senator ( Yulee ) , whose letter fell into loyal hands some time during the war , wrote to his State ...
Page 110
... fires . " To preserve the Union , " he says in his book , " was the President's supreme object , and he considered it doubtful whether it could survive the shock of civil war . " This brief summary shows how the President felt , and it ...
... fires . " To preserve the Union , " he says in his book , " was the President's supreme object , and he considered it doubtful whether it could survive the shock of civil war . " This brief summary shows how the President felt , and it ...
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Page 67 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest...
Page 383 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 67 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 67 - The constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but, emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by " the people of the United States.
Page 67 - The government of the Union, then, (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case,) is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 152 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 109 - The long-continued and intemperate interference of the northern people with the question of slavery in the southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, when hostile geographical parties have been formed.
Page 184 - It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
Page 117 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.
Page 150 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come before him : worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.