The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto |
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... fact , and allay this dangerous ex- citement . Then call for a National Convention and let the whole country decide on the new claims you prefer . But for that fair , simple proposition , not one single vote from a single slaveholding ...
... fact , and allay this dangerous ex- citement . Then call for a National Convention and let the whole country decide on the new claims you prefer . But for that fair , simple proposition , not one single vote from a single slaveholding ...
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... fact , but incidentally referring to what those whom he was addressing well knew to be true , says : " When you were ... facts which are too recent and too familiar to be doubted , and only refer to them to exhibit another of the ...
... fact , but incidentally referring to what those whom he was addressing well knew to be true , says : " When you were ... facts which are too recent and too familiar to be doubted , and only refer to them to exhibit another of the ...
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... fact , that Government has always been , in great part , in her own hands , or under the control of her influence . If she has not been happy and prosperous it is sim- ply her own fault . I mean to say , she has no cause whatever to ...
... fact , that Government has always been , in great part , in her own hands , or under the control of her influence . If she has not been happy and prosperous it is sim- ply her own fault . I mean to say , she has no cause whatever to ...
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... fact not only that it is made against popular government , but in its success the last hope of liberty would have perished from among men . No people could have dared reasonably to hope for suc- cess in an experiment of free ...
... fact not only that it is made against popular government , but in its success the last hope of liberty would have perished from among men . No people could have dared reasonably to hope for suc- cess in an experiment of free ...
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... fact patent to the eyes of all men . But as we reserve this point for a separate chapter , to be canvassed when we come to speak of the causes of the rebellion , we shall not dwell upon it here . We barely mention it now as completing ...
... fact patent to the eyes of all men . But as we reserve this point for a separate chapter , to be canvassed when we come to speak of the causes of the rebellion , we shall not dwell upon it here . We barely mention it now as completing ...
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Page 6 - 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 289 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Page 49 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This our new government is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 423 - God shouted for joy, but my mind was carried back to him, who, '• though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.
Page 6 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 436 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 13 - I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution— which amendment, however, I have not seen— has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service.
Page 435 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 290 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord do all these things.
Page 294 - For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.