Prayerful Sympathy Invoked for America: A Sermon Preached at Cross Street Chapel, Islington, England, on Sunday, December 21st, 1862 |
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... secession is an inherent right of every State com- posing the Union . This is based on the fallacy of the assumption , that the Union is simply a confede- racy of sovereign States - States which retain their sovereignty , though in the ...
... secession is an inherent right of every State com- posing the Union . This is based on the fallacy of the assumption , that the Union is simply a confede- racy of sovereign States - States which retain their sovereignty , though in the ...
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... secession preach it at home ? When the Sepoy mutiny rose , and disputed our authority in India , who in England justified their right to secession ? And yet they had become a conquered race , and their country had become the property of ...
... secession preach it at home ? When the Sepoy mutiny rose , and disputed our authority in India , who in England justified their right to secession ? And yet they had become a conquered race , and their country had become the property of ...
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... secession , then any minority in a state , or country , or province , or parish , or church , or society , has an equal right of secession , when it cannot rule the majority , and bend every thing to its own will . - This defeated ...
... secession , then any minority in a state , or country , or province , or parish , or church , or society , has an equal right of secession , when it cannot rule the majority , and bend every thing to its own will . - This defeated ...
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... secession ordinances , two voted it down , while the remaining two did not even entertain it . And in the eleven , the ordinance of secession was never put to the vote of the people , with the exception of Vir- ginia ; and there the ...
... secession ordinances , two voted it down , while the remaining two did not even entertain it . And in the eleven , the ordinance of secession was never put to the vote of the people , with the exception of Vir- ginia ; and there the ...
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Page 29 - LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. 4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Page 3 - Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah. Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners : the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
Page 3 - Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions. Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed ; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright. Save, Lord :...
Page 22 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 22 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 29 - Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Page 16 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; 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 17 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of Freedom...
Page 29 - God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Page 10 - To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States is not a nation...