History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of Its Origin: The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the Concentration of the Military and Financial Resources of the Federal Government ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of All the Eminent Statesmen and Military and Naval Commanders, with a Full and Complete Index. From Official Sources |
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... passed the House , but was lost in the Senate . A compromise measure , proposed by Henry Clay , finally ended the controversy . Missouri was admitted as a Slave State ; but slavery was prohibited in all territory north of the line of 36 ...
... passed the House , but was lost in the Senate . A compromise measure , proposed by Henry Clay , finally ended the controversy . Missouri was admitted as a Slave State ; but slavery was prohibited in all territory north of the line of 36 ...
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... passed to give effect thereto . A special session of the legislature was called on the adjournment of the convention , and acts passed authorizing the Governor to call out the militia to resist any attempt of the United States ...
... passed to give effect thereto . A special session of the legislature was called on the adjournment of the convention , and acts passed authorizing the Governor to call out the militia to resist any attempt of the United States ...
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... passed by an almost unanimous vote . The right and power of the Government having been thus maintained , Henry Clay proposed and carried through both Houses a measure of compromise and concession , providing for a grad- ual reduction of ...
... passed by an almost unanimous vote . The right and power of the Government having been thus maintained , Henry Clay proposed and carried through both Houses a measure of compromise and concession , providing for a grad- ual reduction of ...
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... passed author- izing the seizure of anti - slavery pamphlets or papers passing through the mails , and postmasters were made the judges of 26 INTRODUCTION .
... passed author- izing the seizure of anti - slavery pamphlets or papers passing through the mails , and postmasters were made the judges of 26 INTRODUCTION .
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... passed , and the Government was required to pay to Texas the sum of ten millions of dollars ( in addition to the pre- vious assumption of her debts ) , for the Gadsden tract , a barren , worthless strip of land , to which her claim was ...
... passed , and the Government was required to pay to Texas the sum of ten millions of dollars ( in addition to the pre- vious assumption of her debts ) , for the Gadsden tract , a barren , worthless strip of land , to which her claim was ...
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama arms army arrived artillery assault Atlanta attack Banks batteries battle Bragg bridge Brigade Brigadier-General Burnside campaign Captain captured cavalry centre Charleston Chattanooga Colonel column command commenced Confederate Congress Creek crossed defence Division enemy enemy's Federal fell back Fifth Corps fight fire flank fleet force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe four Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry head-quarters held Hill infantry intrenched Jackson James River July Kentucky killed land loss Major-General McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North Carolina o'clock occupied officers Port Port Hudson position Potomac President prisoners proclamation railroad re-enforcements reached rear rebel rebellion regiments retired retreat Richmond River road Second Corps sent Sherman Sixth Corps skirmishers South Southern surrender Tennessee thousand tion Union army United vessels Vicksburg Virginia Washington West West Point wounded
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Page 359 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Page 60 - 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 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 746 - ... myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 359 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 361 - ... 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 60 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Page 359 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 361 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 434 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did— march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...