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... principles and precedents in his government , we may anticipate and define them sufficiently for ordinary purposes of practical faith and action . From the commencement of the war I have believed that the Great Arbiter of battles had at ...
... principles and precedents in his government , we may anticipate and define them sufficiently for ordinary purposes of practical faith and action . From the commencement of the war I have believed that the Great Arbiter of battles had at ...
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... principles of the government , as defined in " The Declaration of Independence , " and in the Constitution , would guarantee to all her loyal subjects , " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , " still the government had to ...
... principles of the government , as defined in " The Declaration of Independence , " and in the Constitution , would guarantee to all her loyal subjects , " life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , " still the government had to ...
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... principles , and that the South had the " loaves and fishes , " espoused the Southern cause , and public speakers who dared to assail the " institution " " were gagged and choked down by every available means . The North submitted to ...
... principles , and that the South had the " loaves and fishes , " espoused the Southern cause , and public speakers who dared to assail the " institution " " were gagged and choked down by every available means . The North submitted to ...
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... principle of compensation and gradual emancipation , they might have escaped the terrible retribution they are now suffering from guerilla warfare , and in- vading armies from the South , which their wavering policy has invited . The ...
... principle of compensation and gradual emancipation , they might have escaped the terrible retribution they are now suffering from guerilla warfare , and in- vading armies from the South , which their wavering policy has invited . The ...
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... principle of Secession . What nation can safely en- dorse such a principle ? 2. - The pretended right of revolution . What nation can sanction the right of revolution on such flimsy pretences ? 3 .- " The chief corner stone of the ...
... principle of Secession . What nation can safely en- dorse such a principle ? 2. - The pretended right of revolution . What nation can sanction the right of revolution on such flimsy pretences ? 3 .- " The chief corner stone of the ...
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Page 18 - States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and -which States may then have voluntarily adopted or thereafter may voluntarily adopt the immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits...
Page 18 - ... 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...
Page 31 - We eat together, trade together, and practise, yet, in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life. But the real contest is between the two forms of society which have become established — -the one at the North and the other at the South. Society is essentially different from government — as different as is the nut from the bur, or the nervous body of the...
Page 31 - ... mere matter of policy, it has been considered best for the South to strike out for herself and establish an independence of her own. This, I fear, is an inadequate conception of the controversy.
Page 31 - South, for our relations have been pleasant, and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us. We eat together, trade together, and practise yet in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life. But the real contest is between the two forms of society which have become established, the one at the North and the other at the South.
Page 31 - The South is now in the formation of a slave republic. This, perhaps, is not admitted generally. There are many contented to believe that the South, as a geographical section, is in mere assertion of its independence ; that it is instinct with no especial truth, pregnant of no distinct social nature; that for some unaccountable reason the two sections have become opposed to each other; that for reasons equally insufficient there is disagreement between the...
Page 31 - The one is a society composed of one race, the other of two races. The one is bound together but by the two great social relations of husband and wife, and parent and child; the other by the three relations of husband and wife, and parent and child, and master and slave. The one embodies in its political structure the principle that equality is the right of man; the other that it is the right of equals only.
Page 31 - South as geographical sections, for between such sections merely there can be no contest ; nor between the people of the North and the people of the South, for our relations have been pleasant; and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us. We eat together, trade together, and practice, yet, in intercourse, with great respect, the courtesies of common life.
Page 31 - Tho one is bound together but by th« two great social relations of husband and wife and parent and child ; the other by the three relations of husband and wife, and parent and child, and master and slave. The one embodies in its political structure the principle that equality is the right of man ; the other that it is the right of equals only. The one, embodying...
Page 31 - is now in the formation of a Slave republic. This, perhaps, is not admitted generally. There are many contented to believe that the South, as a geographical section, is in mere assertion of its independence ; that it is instinct with no...