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... fight ensued , in which seventeen of Taylor's men were either killed or wounded . And the remainder , being surrounded , were compelled to surrender . The news reached Washington . A blaze of excitement followed and war was declared ...
... fight ensued , in which seventeen of Taylor's men were either killed or wounded . And the remainder , being surrounded , were compelled to surrender . The news reached Washington . A blaze of excitement followed and war was declared ...
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... Fight for Kansas Election of Buchanan . SOON after the close of the Mexican War the slavery question came up in Congress again . This time it was caused by California . In the autumn of 1848 a settler named Sutter was engaged in ...
... Fight for Kansas Election of Buchanan . SOON after the close of the Mexican War the slavery question came up in Congress again . This time it was caused by California . In the autumn of 1848 a settler named Sutter was engaged in ...
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... fight . And there were other questions in dispute now - what provision was to be made as to slavery in the remainder of the territory acquired from Mexico ; Texas had a dispute with New Mexico as to her boundary line , and Texas was a ...
... fight . And there were other questions in dispute now - what provision was to be made as to slavery in the remainder of the territory acquired from Mexico ; Texas had a dispute with New Mexico as to her boundary line , and Texas was a ...
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... Among the latter were John Brown and his sons , who later took part in the insurrection at Harper's Ferry . So some , it seems , were daring spirits . Clashes became frequent between the settlers from the North and THE FIGHT FOR KANSAS 21.
... Among the latter were John Brown and his sons , who later took part in the insurrection at Harper's Ferry . So some , it seems , were daring spirits . Clashes became frequent between the settlers from the North and THE FIGHT FOR KANSAS 21.
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... fight later against the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution had in a measure restored his popularity at home , this had brought him the hostility of President Buchanan . Thus he was here between two fires . And coming ...
... fight later against the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution had in a measure restored his popularity at home , this had brought him the hostility of President Buchanan . Thus he was here between two fires . And coming ...
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Page 35 - That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. 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. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same...
Page 26 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 174 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 35 - ... that it is a sacred right of self-government — he is, in my judgment, penetrating the human soul and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty in this American people. And now I will only say that when, by all these means and appliances, Judge Douglas shall succeed in bringing public sentiment to an exact accordance with his own views — when these vast assemblages shall echo back all these sentiments — when they shall come to repeat his views and to avow his principles, and...
Page 256 - 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 33 - They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the little distraction that has taken place in the party, bring themselves to give up the charming hope ; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him, sustain him,...
Page 76 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better...
Page 67 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 76 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 174 - SIR :—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.