The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto |
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... become so oppressive as to be unendurable , with no hope of relief from the ruling power . Then , revolution may become a duty . This remedy is deemed justifiable in extreme cases , and a right which a people can never surrender . The ...
... become so oppressive as to be unendurable , with no hope of relief from the ruling power . Then , revolution may become a duty . This remedy is deemed justifiable in extreme cases , and a right which a people can never surrender . The ...
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... becoming known , and four months before the Administration was to assume power , in those acts of secret and open aggression upon the public authority and property throughout the Southern States , with which the world is so familiar ...
... becoming known , and four months before the Administration was to assume power , in those acts of secret and open aggression upon the public authority and property throughout the Southern States , with which the world is so familiar ...
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... becoming from the stronger to the weaker , and which the circumstances so clearly demanded , the tide of secession would have been stayed on the borders of South Carolina ; and that State would soon have returned to her place in our ...
... becoming from the stronger to the weaker , and which the circumstances so clearly demanded , the tide of secession would have been stayed on the borders of South Carolina ; and that State would soon have returned to her place in our ...
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... become the most vital element in Southern civilization . * and political power . It prescribed hold and gave laws to the State . systems of education and made a The mechanic and the day - laborer , the gentleman of leis- ure and the man ...
... become the most vital element in Southern civilization . * and political power . It prescribed hold and gave laws to the State . systems of education and made a The mechanic and the day - laborer , the gentleman of leis- ure and the man ...
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... become so important in their eyes that verily they thought the whole country was theirs ; that they could take their slaves to every State and plant them in every Territory ; that Congress was theirs , that the Presidency was theirs ...
... become so important in their eyes that verily they thought the whole country was theirs ; that they could take their slaves to every State and plant them in every Territory ; that Congress was theirs , that the Presidency was theirs ...
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abolitionism abolitionists action Address admit army Assembly authority Breckinridge cause character charge Christian civil claim condemnation Confederate Congress Constitution Convention course Decalogue declared deemed defend disloyalty divine doctrine duty emancipation existed fact favor Fort Sumter give God's Government ground human institution issue judgment Justinian Code Kentucky labor Law of Nature laws of war leaders liberty loyal master McPheeters ment ministers moral nation negro slavery North Northern opinion ordinance ordinance of secession paper party peace persons political position Presbyterian Church present President principles question reason rebel rebellion referred regard relation religious responsibility revolution sanction Scriptures seceded secession sentiment slave codes slave-trade slaveholding slaves South Carolina Southern Church statesmen STUART ROBINSON sustained Synod taken territory testimony thing Thomas R. R. Cobb Thornwell tion treason True Presbyterian Union Union armies United utter whole word