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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... truth of what are here given as auxiliary causes of the rebellion ; and yet , it is further true , as we shall see , that it is NEGRO SLAVERY , in its emoluments in the Rebel States , in its fears of en- croachment and apprehended ...
... truth of what are here given as auxiliary causes of the rebellion ; and yet , it is further true , as we shall see , that it is NEGRO SLAVERY , in its emoluments in the Rebel States , in its fears of en- croachment and apprehended ...
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... truth which they have shown , and the want of sagacity and ordinary good sense which have characterized ten thousand things which they have said and done in the progress of their horrid work , we must certainly allow a sufficient method ...
... truth which they have shown , and the want of sagacity and ordinary good sense which have characterized ten thousand things which they have said and done in the progress of their horrid work , we must certainly allow a sufficient method ...
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... conjecture with him is now a realized fact . But whether he comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands , may be doubted . The WITNESSES THAT SLAVERY IS THE CAUSE . 49 prevailing ideas 48 CAUSE OF THE REBELLION .
... conjecture with him is now a realized fact . But whether he comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands , may be doubted . The WITNESSES THAT SLAVERY IS THE CAUSE . 49 prevailing ideas 48 CAUSE OF THE REBELLION .
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... truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery , subordina- tion 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 ...
... truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery , subordina- tion 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 ...
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... truth , and to abandon , with ingenuous sincerity , whatever our consciences cannot sanction . Immediately after the secession of South Carolina , De- cember 20 , 1860 , Dr. Thornwell published an elaborate paper in its defence , in the ...
... truth , and to abandon , with ingenuous sincerity , whatever our consciences cannot sanction . Immediately after the secession of South Carolina , De- cember 20 , 1860 , Dr. Thornwell published an elaborate paper in its defence , in the ...
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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