The Cradle of the Confederacy: Or, The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey. A Sketch of Southwestern Political History from the Formation of the Federal Government to A.D. 1861 |
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... Ordinance of Secession under the belief that the remedy they thus sought against grievances , would be acquiesced in by the people of the Northern States and by the Federal Government . The author will not have had his labor in vain ...
... Ordinance of Secession under the belief that the remedy they thus sought against grievances , would be acquiesced in by the people of the Northern States and by the Federal Government . The author will not have had his labor in vain ...
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... Ordinance to the People - Yancey's Threatening Speech - Counter - Threats - Etc . , Etc. CHAPTER XIX . - Adoption of the Ordinance of Secession - Popular Enthusiasm - Union of all Classes of the People - Assembling of the Southern ...
... Ordinance to the People - Yancey's Threatening Speech - Counter - Threats - Etc . , Etc. CHAPTER XIX . - Adoption of the Ordinance of Secession - Popular Enthusiasm - Union of all Classes of the People - Assembling of the Southern ...
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... Ordinance of 1787 , in the Proclamation of 1788 , and in the case of the Southwestern Indians in the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785 . In the Act of Cession made by Georgia to the United States in 1802 of all lands claimed by her west of the ...
... Ordinance of 1787 , in the Proclamation of 1788 , and in the case of the Southwestern Indians in the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785 . In the Act of Cession made by Georgia to the United States in 1802 of all lands claimed by her west of the ...
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... ordinance was adopted Novem- ber 24th , declaring that the tariff of May 19 , .828 , and that of July 24 , 1832 , were null and void , and instructing the Legislature to pass laws necessary for enforcing the ordinance , after the first ...
... ordinance was adopted Novem- ber 24th , declaring that the tariff of May 19 , .828 , and that of July 24 , 1832 , were null and void , and instructing the Legislature to pass laws necessary for enforcing the ordinance , after the first ...
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... ordinance or to postpone action until the close of the session of Congress . His mission was successful . In view of the probable reduc- tion of the tariff to a revenue standard , action upon her ordinance was postponed from February ...
... ordinance or to postpone action until the close of the session of Congress . His mission was successful . In view of the probable reduc- tion of the tariff to a revenue standard , action upon her ordinance was postponed from February ...
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Page 70 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 5 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward.
Page 77 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States : Fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States : Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians...
Page 409 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the Democratic party as to the nature and extent of the Powers of a Territorial Legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the Constitution of the United States, over the institution of Slavery within the territories : 2. Resolved, That the Democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of Constitutional law.
Page 340 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 471 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 95 - The contract between Georgia and the purchasers was executed by the grant. A contract executed, as well as one which is executory, contains obligations binding on the parties. A grant, in its own nature, amounts to an extinguishment of the right of the grantor, and implies a contract not to reassert that right. A party is, therefore, always estopped by his own grant.
Page 393 - But if we could do as our fathers did — organize "committees of safety" all over the cotton States (and it is only in them that we can hope for any effective movement) — we shall fire the Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind, give courage to each other, and, at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, we can precipitate the cotton States into a revolution.
Page 5 - Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 5 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it, but I cannot alter the nature of man.