The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous FailureA personal memoir and observations of the politics and overall secession by the Confederacy leading up to and during the U.S. Civil War. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page xxvi
... Loyal Unionists kept in the Background , while the worst Class of Rebels are allowed to take Office . - The grad- ual change of Rebels from humble Supplicants to tyrannical Task- masters . They assume Superiority over Unionists , and ...
... Loyal Unionists kept in the Background , while the worst Class of Rebels are allowed to take Office . - The grad- ual change of Rebels from humble Supplicants to tyrannical Task- masters . They assume Superiority over Unionists , and ...
Page xxvii
... loyal Representatives entitled to Seats in Congress . To withhold the Right of such to Seats would be to place loyal and disloyal on a par . - No Presidential Pardons legal until the Pardoned have been tried . - The Policy of ...
... loyal Representatives entitled to Seats in Congress . To withhold the Right of such to Seats would be to place loyal and disloyal on a par . - No Presidential Pardons legal until the Pardoned have been tried . - The Policy of ...
Page 222
... loyal people , and hypocritically howl over their afflictions , and seek to seduce them from their integrity , to elect to power the party which has brought all these woes upon the land . " Let an enlightened public now determine ...
... loyal people , and hypocritically howl over their afflictions , and seek to seduce them from their integrity , to elect to power the party which has brought all these woes upon the land . " Let an enlightened public now determine ...
Page 281
... loyal men " inherited the estate " as long as he and Congress allow the disinherited to enjoy the income ? Why do they not take steps to put the rightful owners in lawful posses- sion ? In about three weeks after my arrest , this ...
... loyal men " inherited the estate " as long as he and Congress allow the disinherited to enjoy the income ? Why do they not take steps to put the rightful owners in lawful posses- sion ? In about three weeks after my arrest , this ...
Page 312
... to the protection of the Constitution , it by no means follows that the right exists to take the slave or other property of the loyal citizen , who had forfeited none of his rights , and who stands exactly where and 312 APPENDIX .
... to the protection of the Constitution , it by no means follows that the right exists to take the slave or other property of the loyal citizen , who had forfeited none of his rights , and who stands exactly where and 312 APPENDIX .
Contents
65 | |
71 | |
82 | |
95 | |
99 | |
106 | |
112 | |
113 | |
209 | |
213 | |
224 | |
227 | |
248 | |
257 | |
279 | |
291 | |
122 | |
133 | |
154 | |
166 | |
170 | |
177 | |
184 | |
190 | |
194 | |
203 | |
297 | |
307 | |
310 | |
325 | |
339 | |
341 | |
355 | |
367 | |
386 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abolitionists adopted arms army arrest authority believe body Botts BOTTS'S Calhoun called candidate cause citizen civil claim Confederate Congress confiscation Congress Constitution Convention Culpepper County declared Democratic party disunion Dutch Republic elected Emancipation Proclamation excitement execution favor Federal feeling force Fort Sumter friends gentlemen governor hands honor J. E. B. Stuart John labor leaders legislative Legislature letter liberty Lincoln loyal loyalty ment military Missouri Compromise nation never North Northern oath offense opinion ordinance of secession pardon patriotic peace pledge political present President proclamation proposition purpose qualifications question rebel rebellion reconstruction repeal repudiated resolution restored Richmond secessionists Senate slave slavery South Carolina Southern Democracy sovereignty speech stand Sumter territory test-oath Texas thing thousand tion traitors treason Union United Virginia vote Washington Whig Whig party whole Wilmot Proviso
Popular passages
Page 395 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do 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 388 - 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 386 - ... endangered by the now incoming administration. I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 386 - 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 178 - 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 387 - 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 law-giver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves, whose cases come within the terms of this clause, "shall be delivered up,
Page 393 - Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world ; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated, and its happy future fully assured and rendered inconceivably grand. To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewith forever.
Page 106 - Constitution ; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of Slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 388 - Whatever else I may do for the purpose, I shall not attempt to collect the duties and imposts by any armed invasion of any part of the country; not meaning by this, however, that I may not land a force deemed necessary to relieve a fort upon the border of the country.
Page 392 - The incidents of the war cannot be avoided. If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion — by the mere incidents of the war. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it. Much of its value is gone already. How much better for you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war, and secures substantial compensation for that which is sure to be...