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Page 342
... Sumter in Charleston harbor , Forts Pickens and McRae in Pensacola harbor , and Forts Jackson and St. Philip guarding the Mississippi below New Orleans , were " twin forts " on opposite sides of a channel , whose strength was more than ...
... Sumter in Charleston harbor , Forts Pickens and McRae in Pensacola harbor , and Forts Jackson and St. Philip guarding the Mississippi below New Orleans , were " twin forts " on opposite sides of a channel , whose strength was more than ...
Page 343
... Sumter , and a partial garrison in Fort Moultrie . Both Sumter and Moultrie were greatly and Castle Pinckney slightly out of repair . During the sum- mer of 1860 Congress made an appropriation for these works ; and the engineer captain ...
... Sumter , and a partial garrison in Fort Moultrie . Both Sumter and Moultrie were greatly and Castle Pinckney slightly out of repair . During the sum- mer of 1860 Congress made an appropriation for these works ; and the engineer captain ...
Page 344
... Sumter and twenty in Castle Pinckney . " If , " wrote the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War , " the measure should on being communicated meet the concurrence of the commanding officer of the troops in the harbor , I Craig to ...
... Sumter and twenty in Castle Pinckney . " If , " wrote the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War , " the measure should on being communicated meet the concurrence of the commanding officer of the troops in the harbor , I Craig to ...
Page 346
... Sumter and Government , would evidently have merited no re- proach for inefficiency or indifference . Moultrie , " P. 19 . 1860 . But the fatal entanglement of Buchanan's Ad- ministration with the slavery extremists had the double ...
... Sumter and Government , would evidently have merited no re- proach for inefficiency or indifference . Moultrie , " P. 19 . 1860 . But the fatal entanglement of Buchanan's Ad- ministration with the slavery extremists had the double ...
Page 347
... Sumter commented upon in such manner as no doubt produced its effect in the subsequent 1 We are indebted to Mrs. An- derson , not only for the correction of this error , but for permission to examine many private papers relating to ...
... Sumter commented upon in such manner as no doubt produced its effect in the subsequent 1 We are indebted to Mrs. An- derson , not only for the correction of this error , but for permission to examine many private papers relating to ...
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Page 136 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 137 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 183 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 150 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 222 - ... free states ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Page 149 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 89 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 138 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 40 - That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.
Page 138 - ... common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes...