War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis |
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... Feeling during the Remainder of Mr. Monroe's Administration . - Presidential Contest of 1824.-Mr. Adams's Elec- tion by ... Feel- ing . - Violent and illiberal Opposition to his Administration . - Defeat of Mr. Adams for Re - election in ...
... Feeling during the Remainder of Mr. Monroe's Administration . - Presidential Contest of 1824.-Mr. Adams's Elec- tion by ... Feel- ing . - Violent and illiberal Opposition to his Administration . - Defeat of Mr. Adams for Re - election in ...
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... ence has now demonstrated , must naturally beget schemes of territorial partition ; which , however peacefully and quietly put in execution , if resisted on the part of those who shall chance to feel that they would be deeply.
... ence has now demonstrated , must naturally beget schemes of territorial partition ; which , however peacefully and quietly put in execution , if resisted on the part of those who shall chance to feel that they would be deeply.
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Henry Stuart Foote. who shall chance to feel that they would be deeply in- jured thereby , more especially if the latter party shall suppose itself to possess adequate means of prevention , must inevitably lead to a civil war , more or ...
Henry Stuart Foote. who shall chance to feel that they would be deeply in- jured thereby , more especially if the latter party shall suppose itself to possess adequate means of prevention , must inevitably lead to a civil war , more or ...
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... feel that I too will have done something , in my own day and generation , to deserve the gratitude and veneration of the friends to a well - ordered system of con- federative freedom . " The truth is , that between sectional factionists ...
... feel that I too will have done something , in my own day and generation , to deserve the gratitude and veneration of the friends to a well - ordered system of con- federative freedom . " The truth is , that between sectional factionists ...
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... feeling between them . One says , Give me your hand , my good fellow ; you mean to go against this bill to the death , because it gives up the rights of the South . I mean to go against the bill to the death , because it gives up the ...
... feeling between them . One says , Give me your hand , my good fellow ; you mean to go against this bill to the death , because it gives up the rights of the South . I mean to go against the bill to the death , because it gives up the ...
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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.