War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis |
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... able to reach ; while the graces which distinguish you in social and in domestic life have been such as to surround you with almost innu- merable friends , and apparently , too , without the cus- tomary drawback of those enmities which ...
... able to reach ; while the graces which distinguish you in social and in domestic life have been such as to surround you with almost innu- merable friends , and apparently , too , without the cus- tomary drawback of those enmities which ...
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... able to penetrate . Allow me the honor of giving you some additional assurance of my esteem , as well as of my gratitude for past kindnesses , by dedicating to you the following vol- ume ; which , though the imperfect product of a few ...
... able to penetrate . Allow me the honor of giving you some additional assurance of my esteem , as well as of my gratitude for past kindnesses , by dedicating to you the following vol- ume ; which , though the imperfect product of a few ...
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... able Qualities in private Life.-Mr. Webster's funeral Notice of his great Rival , Mr. Calhoun . .Page 13 .......................... CHAPTER II . Early colonial Settlements in North America . - Character of the People very nearly ...
... able Qualities in private Life.-Mr. Webster's funeral Notice of his great Rival , Mr. Calhoun . .Page 13 .......................... CHAPTER II . Early colonial Settlements in North America . - Character of the People very nearly ...
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... able Qualities in private Life.-Mr. Webster's funeral Notice of his great Rival , Mr. Calhoun . IN no community of Christendom can the public mind be reasonably supposed , at the present moment , to be prepared to receive with a fitting ...
... able Qualities in private Life.-Mr. Webster's funeral Notice of his great Rival , Mr. Calhoun . IN no community of Christendom can the public mind be reasonably supposed , at the present moment , to be prepared to receive with a fitting ...
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... able to depicture , and of a nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and with no exorbitant con- ception of my own ability as a writer , it will not be held ...
... able to depicture , and of a nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and with no exorbitant con- ception of my own ability as a writer , it will not be held ...
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Page 326 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 339 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
Page 329 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Page 327 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves: and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up
Page 249 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 315 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 327 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations...
Page 329 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. 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 chords 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.
Page 328 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 42 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.