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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... period , to inquire into the causes of the revolt against the Govern- ment of the United States , and to examine the agencies which have been concerned in initiating and impelling it forward . These lie upon the sur- face of observation ...
... period , to inquire into the causes of the revolt against the Govern- ment of the United States , and to examine the agencies which have been concerned in initiating and impelling it forward . These lie upon the sur- face of observation ...
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... periods of Opinion , historically , 363 ; The Church largely responsible for Opinion , 366 ; Presbyterian Church illustrative of others , 368 ; First period — early Testimony of the Church , 1787 , 369 ; Politics and Religion - a ...
... periods of Opinion , historically , 363 ; The Church largely responsible for Opinion , 366 ; Presbyterian Church illustrative of others , 368 ; First period — early Testimony of the Church , 1787 , 369 ; Politics and Religion - a ...
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... period of four months . From this state of facts , it seems in a high degree probable , that , had this powerful party remained intact , and had its Southern leaders exercised only a modicum of that saga- city which had characterized ...
... period of four months . From this state of facts , it seems in a high degree probable , that , had this powerful party remained intact , and had its Southern leaders exercised only a modicum of that saga- city which had characterized ...
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... period and the administration of President Polk . The Continental Congress passed the famous " Ordinance for the Govern- ment of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio River , " July 13 , 1787. Eight States were ...
... period and the administration of President Polk . The Continental Congress passed the famous " Ordinance for the Govern- ment of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio River , " July 13 , 1787. Eight States were ...
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... period . The last instance in the series of Congressional prohibitory acts now referred to , occurred as late as the administration of James K. Polk , a Southern President . With a Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress ...
... period . The last instance in the series of Congressional prohibitory acts now referred to , occurred as late as the administration of James K. Polk , a Southern President . With a Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress ...
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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.