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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... whole people , and where the rulers , from the highest to the lowest , are chosen and frequently changed by their common suffrages , the right of violent revolution would seem to be well - nigh or quite excluded . All abuses of power ...
... whole people , and where the rulers , from the highest to the lowest , are chosen and frequently changed by their common suffrages , the right of violent revolution would seem to be well - nigh or quite excluded . All abuses of power ...
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... whole structure of popular government , that con- stitutes the primal item in the catalogue of crimes which make up the terrible guilt of this rebellion . It is an appeal from the ballot - box to the sword ; a determination to defeat by ...
... whole structure of popular government , that con- stitutes the primal item in the catalogue of crimes which make up the terrible guilt of this rebellion . It is an appeal from the ballot - box to the sword ; a determination to defeat by ...
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... whole South . The article restored the Missouri Compromise line , with very serious modifications , on the parallel of latitude of 36 ° 30 ′ . It admitted slavery into " all the territory " south of that 66 AGAINST ALL MEASURES FOR ...
... whole South . The article restored the Missouri Compromise line , with very serious modifications , on the parallel of latitude of 36 ° 30 ′ . It admitted slavery into " all the territory " south of that 66 AGAINST ALL MEASURES FOR ...
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... whole South acted , —and it goes beyond the Territories and into the States , -when he says : " The Constitution covers the whole territory of the Union , and throughout that territory has taken slavery under the protection of law ...
... whole South acted , —and it goes beyond the Territories and into the States , -when he says : " The Constitution covers the whole territory of the Union , and throughout that territory has taken slavery under the protection of law ...
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... whole country decide on the new claims you prefer . But for that fair , simple proposition , not one single vote from a single slaveholding State was recorded . John Tyler was the Chairman of that Convention . Mr. Seddon , the present ...
... whole country decide on the new claims you prefer . But for that fair , simple proposition , not one single vote from a single slaveholding State was recorded . John Tyler was the Chairman of that Convention . Mr. Seddon , the present ...
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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