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... sent by them to Congress calling for abolition . Mr. Jackson a member of Congress from Georgia , said : " It is the fashion of the day to favor the liberty of the slave . " At this period of our history the religious sects often passed ...
... sent by them to Congress calling for abolition . Mr. Jackson a member of Congress from Georgia , said : " It is the fashion of the day to favor the liberty of the slave . " At this period of our history the religious sects often passed ...
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... sent to that Republic the unscrupulous and wily Slidell , ( late the emissary of the insurgents to Louis Napoleon , ) to provoke her to an act of hostility . He too failed , and the adminis- tration then marched an army upon Mexican ...
... sent to that Republic the unscrupulous and wily Slidell , ( late the emissary of the insurgents to Louis Napoleon , ) to provoke her to an act of hostility . He too failed , and the adminis- tration then marched an army upon Mexican ...
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... sent champions to his side , until finally , in 1845 , the obnoxious gag rules were abolished and the right of peti- tion vindicated . He , not only by his eloquence , courage and persistence , triumphed and secured the right of ...
... sent champions to his side , until finally , in 1845 , the obnoxious gag rules were abolished and the right of peti- tion vindicated . He , not only by his eloquence , courage and persistence , triumphed and secured the right of ...
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... sent General Scott with a naval and military force to Charleston to maintain the Na- tional authority . The contrast between the course taken by the iron Jackson in 1832 , and the imbecile , if not treacher- ous Buchanan , in 1860 , is ...
... sent General Scott with a naval and military force to Charleston to maintain the Na- tional authority . The contrast between the course taken by the iron Jackson in 1832 , and the imbecile , if not treacher- ous Buchanan , in 1860 , is ...
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... sent Douglas and Shields to the Senate . Among the members of the House were William H. Bissell , Richard Yates , and Elihu B. Washburne ; the two first have since been Governors . From Missouri , the great Benton , after thirty years ...
... sent Douglas and Shields to the Senate . Among the members of the House were William H. Bissell , Richard Yates , and Elihu B. Washburne ; the two first have since been Governors . From Missouri , the great Benton , after thirty years ...
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Page 299 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 296 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 176 - 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; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion— no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 177 - 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
Page 299 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 177 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth 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 angels of our nature.
Page 626 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered, — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that...
Page 204 - 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. This our new government is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 693 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 118 - ... 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 i':ii 1 — if we stand firm, we shall not /ail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.