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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... never enjoyed by any other people since the world began . And now , O Lord , our God , we offer to thee our humble praise for the past , the present ; and for all the future will it please thee , for Christ's sake , to grant us thy ...
... never enjoyed by any other people since the world began . And now , O Lord , our God , we offer to thee our humble praise for the past , the present ; and for all the future will it please thee , for Christ's sake , to grant us thy ...
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... never again have equality and justice in it . Identified with you in heart , feeling and interest , I return to share in whatever destiny the future has in store for our State and ourselves . " Self - sacrificing man ! his " interest ...
... never again have equality and justice in it . Identified with you in heart , feeling and interest , I return to share in whatever destiny the future has in store for our State and ourselves . " Self - sacrificing man ! his " interest ...
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... never saw such a brave little band . I feel desperate myself . Our only hope is in God . My love to all . " Your affectionate sister . " CHAPTER II . Inaction now is crime . The old 24 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Exciting ...
... never saw such a brave little band . I feel desperate myself . Our only hope is in God . My love to all . " Your affectionate sister . " CHAPTER II . Inaction now is crime . The old 24 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Exciting ...
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... never have permanent peace . Messrs . Davis , Toombs and Hunter dis- cussed the present unhappy condition of the country , and manifested a willingness to accept any measure of final settlement which would secure their just rights in ...
... never have permanent peace . Messrs . Davis , Toombs and Hunter dis- cussed the present unhappy condition of the country , and manifested a willingness to accept any measure of final settlement which would secure their just rights in ...
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... never before been heard in Buchan- an's cabinet , and the men who had so long ruled and bullied the President were surprised and enraged to be thus rebuked . Floyd and Thompson sprang to their feet with fierce , menacing gestures ...
... never before been heard in Buchan- an's cabinet , and the men who had so long ruled and bullied the President were surprised and enraged to be thus rebuked . Floyd and Thompson sprang to their feet with fierce , menacing gestures ...
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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?