The Church and 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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... admit of an extended examination . Our plan will allow us to give them only a passing notice . AGAINST POPULAR GOVERNMENT . 1. The primal characteristic it exhibits is that of a vio- lent demonstration against the life - principle of ...
... admit of an extended examination . Our plan will allow us to give them only a passing notice . AGAINST POPULAR GOVERNMENT . 1. The primal characteristic it exhibits is that of a vio- lent demonstration against the life - principle of ...
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... admit ; an election in which they , equally with the rest of the nation , freely embarked , and by the results of which they were there- fore solemnly bound . This is the charge which stands recorded against them in the face of the ...
... admit ; an election in which they , equally with the rest of the nation , freely embarked , and by the results of which they were there- fore solemnly bound . This is the charge which stands recorded against them in the face of the ...
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... admit , at the least , that such is the character and influence of the institution that it drove the Southern people into unnecessary war before it was jeoparded by the action of the Government . ” " The Union is severed in the name of ...
... admit , at the least , that such is the character and influence of the institution that it drove the Southern people into unnecessary war before it was jeoparded by the action of the Government . ” " The Union is severed in the name of ...
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... admit of any other explanation than that secession was undertaken , and that the rebellion has been prosecuted through every step in its progress , in entire subserviency to slavery ? Their pretended rule was only claimed to extend over ...
... admit of any other explanation than that secession was undertaken , and that the rebellion has been prosecuted through every step in its progress , in entire subserviency to slavery ? Their pretended rule was only claimed to extend over ...
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... admit of a doubt among common men . But why should he present this caveat at all ? —especially in the face of abundant testimony ? He seems to have no objection to the reopening , on the ground of any wrong in the traffic ; nor , according.
... admit of a doubt among common men . But why should he present this caveat at all ? —especially in the face of abundant testimony ? He seems to have no objection to the reopening , on the ground of any wrong in the traffic ; nor , according.
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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 Fort Sumter give God's Government ground human institution issue judgment Justinian Code Kentucky labor Law of Nature laws of war leaders loyal master McPheeters ment ministers moral nation negro slavery North Northern opinion ordinance ordinance of secession paper party peace persons political position preach 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 vindicated whole word
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Page 340 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 6 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 290 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord do all these things.
Page 6 - I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration.
Page 49 - Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; 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.
Page 6 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern states, that, by the accession of a republican administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all...
Page 294 - For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Page 49 - Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.
Page 46 - States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions ; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution ; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery...
Page 6 - 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 cords 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.