Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield: With a Review of the Events which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860, Volume 1Henry Bill publishing Company, 1884 - United States |
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... KENTUCKY . - UNION VICTORY . - JOHN J. CRITTENDEN AND GARRETT DAVIS . — JOHN BELL . -DISAPPOINTS EXPECTATION OF UNION MEN . - RESPONSIBILITY OF SOUTHERN WHIGS . THEIR POWER TO ARREST THE MADNESS . AUDACITY OVERCOMES NUMBERS . WHIG PARTY ...
... KENTUCKY . - UNION VICTORY . - JOHN J. CRITTENDEN AND GARRETT DAVIS . — JOHN BELL . -DISAPPOINTS EXPECTATION OF UNION MEN . - RESPONSIBILITY OF SOUTHERN WHIGS . THEIR POWER TO ARREST THE MADNESS . AUDACITY OVERCOMES NUMBERS . WHIG PARTY ...
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... Kentucky to Virginia ; Tennessee to North Carolina ; Alabama and Mississippi to Georgia , with certain ço - extensive claims put forth by South Carolina . When cessions of this Southern territory were made to the General Government ...
... Kentucky to Virginia ; Tennessee to North Carolina ; Alabama and Mississippi to Georgia , with certain ço - extensive claims put forth by South Carolina . When cessions of this Southern territory were made to the General Government ...
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... Kentucky was , for the Whigs , to lose every thing . To reduce the Whig majority in Mr. Clay's own State would be a great victory for the Democracy , and to that end the leaders of the party were straining every nerve . Mr. Clay ...
... Kentucky was , for the Whigs , to lose every thing . To reduce the Whig majority in Mr. Clay's own State would be a great victory for the Democracy , and to that end the leaders of the party were straining every nerve . Mr. Clay ...
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... States added to the Union had been so skillfully arranged , that for a long period two States were admitted at nearly the same time , one from the South , and one — from the North . Thus Kentucky and Vermont , Tennessee.
... States added to the Union had been so skillfully arranged , that for a long period two States were admitted at nearly the same time , one from the South , and one — from the North . Thus Kentucky and Vermont , Tennessee.
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... Kentucky and Vermont , Tennessee and Ohio , Mississippi and Indiana , Alabama and Illinois , Missouri and Maine , Arkansas and Michigan , Florida and Iowa , came into the Union in pairs , not indeed at precisely the same moment in every ...
... Kentucky and Vermont , Tennessee and Ohio , Mississippi and Indiana , Alabama and Illinois , Missouri and Maine , Arkansas and Michigan , Florida and Iowa , came into the Union in pairs , not indeed at precisely the same moment in every ...
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Page 283 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 336 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 528 - American peop'le, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war...
Page 14 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 295 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 376 - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States ; and...
Page 355 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 535 - I may add at this point that, while I remain in my present position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation ; nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 436 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...
Page 442 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...