The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volume 1G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1862 - United States |
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... expressed by an immense Union demonstration , by proclamation of the mayor . On the same day the cabinet , at Washington , was the scene of contention and strife ; exciting speeches were made in regard to the re - enforcement of Fort ...
... expressed by an immense Union demonstration , by proclamation of the mayor . On the same day the cabinet , at Washington , was the scene of contention and strife ; exciting speeches were made in regard to the re - enforcement of Fort ...
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... expressed opinion of military men , that Fort Moultrie could not be held , against a resolute attack , for twenty - four hours ; but that Sumter was the strongest fort , of its size , in the world . Thus it will be seen that the ...
... expressed opinion of military men , that Fort Moultrie could not be held , against a resolute attack , for twenty - four hours ; but that Sumter was the strongest fort , of its size , in the world . Thus it will be seen that the ...
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... expressed , would prove only fears ; but it seemed almost as if the other side of the chamber desired to bring about a civil war ; that South Carolina had declared herself separated from the Union , and that she was not alone , for ...
... expressed , would prove only fears ; but it seemed almost as if the other side of the chamber desired to bring about a civil war ; that South Carolina had declared herself separated from the Union , and that she was not alone , for ...
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... expressed it as his opinion that very much of the ill - feel- ing which has existed , and still exists , between the peo- ple of the section from whence he came and the people of the slave States was owing to a misunderstanding between ...
... expressed it as his opinion that very much of the ill - feel- ing which has existed , and still exists , between the peo- ple of the section from whence he came and the people of the slave States was owing to a misunderstanding between ...
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... expressed , in the fundamental law of all national governments ; it is safe to assert that no govern- ment proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our ...
... expressed , in the fundamental law of all national governments ; it is safe to assert that no govern- ment proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our ...
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adjourned Alabama April arms arrived arsenal Baltimore batteries blessings cabinet called Capitol Captain Castle Pinckney Charleston cheers citizens command commissioners Confederacy Congress Constitution convention crowd December December 26 declared defend depot dispatch disunion duty excitement Faneuil Hall federal Florida Floyd Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts Georgia Governor Pickens guns were fired Hall honor House Howell Cobb hundred guns immense inaugural Jacob Thompson January Jefferson Davis legislature liberty Lincoln Major Anderson March Maryland Massachusetts meeting ment military minute-men Mississippi Missouri compromise morning Morris Island Moultrie navy North Northern o'clock officers ordinance ordinance of secession Palmetto flag passed patriotic peace President elect rebellion received resigned says secede secession Secretary Senate sent slavery soldiers South Caro South Carolina Southern speech stars and stripes streets Sumter Texas thousand tion treason troops Union United United States Senate Virginia Washington York
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Page 61 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 55 - 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 62 - 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 battlefield 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 54 - 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 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 60 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 60 - 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 62 - 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. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 59 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 57 - Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it. One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?