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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... flag and patriotic speech by Governor Andrew ,. Arrival of the Sixth and Fourth Regiments in New York , .... Harper's Ferry arsenal destroyed by Lieut . Jones , .. .... • The Massachusetts Sixth Regiment assailed by a mob in its passage ...
... flag and patriotic speech by Governor Andrew ,. Arrival of the Sixth and Fourth Regiments in New York , .... Harper's Ferry arsenal destroyed by Lieut . Jones , .. .... • The Massachusetts Sixth Regiment assailed by a mob in its passage ...
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... flag in one hand and a splendid spread eagle in the other , appealed to the Florida member to act upon the committee . It was a burst of thrilling elo- quence , and the applause in the galleries attested the sincerity with which the ...
... flag in one hand and a splendid spread eagle in the other , appealed to the Florida member to act upon the committee . It was a burst of thrilling elo- quence , and the applause in the galleries attested the sincerity with which the ...
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... flag on high ; A tear stole down his cheek for those That were too brave to die . " Haul down your colors from the ... flag , Defended by that band ; Humanity's great heart sends forth Its plaudits o'er the land . Our Union banner still ...
... flag on high ; A tear stole down his cheek for those That were too brave to die . " Haul down your colors from the ... flag , Defended by that band ; Humanity's great heart sends forth Its plaudits o'er the land . Our Union banner still ...
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... flag of truce to Charleston , where he delivered a communication from the Major to Governor Pickens , wherein he recapitulates the facts concerning the Star of the West , and requests to know if the action of the State troops is ...
... flag of truce to Charleston , where he delivered a communication from the Major to Governor Pickens , wherein he recapitulates the facts concerning the Star of the West , and requests to know if the action of the State troops is ...
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... flags from their houses or across the principal avenues . From early dawn the drum and fife could be heard in every quarter of the city , and the streets were thronged with the volunteer soldiery , hastening to their respective ...
... flags from their houses or across the principal avenues . From early dawn the drum and fife could be heard in every quarter of the city , and the streets were thronged with the volunteer soldiery , hastening to their respective ...
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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?