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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... given to it . It is then essential that the matter be probed , so that if the Church or its ministers are improperly impugned , they may have justice done them ; and that the really guilty may be held re- sponsible . We have examined ...
... given to it . It is then essential that the matter be probed , so that if the Church or its ministers are improperly impugned , they may have justice done them ; and that the really guilty may be held re- sponsible . We have examined ...
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... given , will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded , for whatever cause , as cheerfully to one section as to another . " The foregoing sentences completely disprove the charge under consideration . The President ...
... given , will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded , for whatever cause , as cheerfully to one section as to another . " The foregoing sentences completely disprove the charge under consideration . The President ...
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... given them on which to write the demands which the North should grant , they would reject it with contempt . Mr. Tyler , the President of the Peace Convention , went home to Virginia , and with other leading men of that State used all ...
... given them on which to write the demands which the North should grant , they would reject it with contempt . Mr. Tyler , the President of the Peace Convention , went home to Virginia , and with other leading men of that State used all ...
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... given this long extract , not because any proof is wanting of the fraud and violence by which the rebel- lion was inaugurated , but to show in these graphic details what loyal men all through the South suffered at the outset for ...
... given this long extract , not because any proof is wanting of the fraud and violence by which the rebel- lion was inaugurated , but to show in these graphic details what loyal men all through the South suffered at the outset for ...
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... given them protection , their regard for their solemn oaths of office , and their un- willingness to yield to the demands of a godless rebellion . If persons of such distinction can be so treated , and were so treated at the beginning ...
... given them protection , their regard for their solemn oaths of office , and their un- willingness to yield to the demands of a godless rebellion . If persons of such distinction can be so treated , and were so treated at the beginning ...
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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.