Why I Am a Republican: A History of the Republican Party, a Defense of Its Policy, and the Reasons which Justify Its Continuance in Power, with Biographical Sketches of the Republican Candidates |
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... cause of its destruction . By the Constitution the foreign slave trade was tolerated for twenty years , and thus the slave population was greatly augmented , the sys- tem was extended to new territories , and the number of persons ...
... cause of its destruction . By the Constitution the foreign slave trade was tolerated for twenty years , and thus the slave population was greatly augmented , the sys- tem was extended to new territories , and the number of persons ...
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... cause for national interference . In that condition of affairs , slavery would have existed in the several States until by the individual action of such States its aboli- tion had been decreed . The effect , then , of the constitutional ...
... cause for national interference . In that condition of affairs , slavery would have existed in the several States until by the individual action of such States its aboli- tion had been decreed . The effect , then , of the constitutional ...
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... cause or the occasion of the bitter sectional struggle which , commencing in 1820 , even yet disturbs the harmony of the Republic . The pro - slavery provisions of the Constitution gave rise to that struggle , and in its progress the ...
... cause or the occasion of the bitter sectional struggle which , commencing in 1820 , even yet disturbs the harmony of the Republic . The pro - slavery provisions of the Constitution gave rise to that struggle , and in its progress the ...
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... cause , they were driven necessarily into an alliance for self - defense as well as for the purpose of forming a barrier to the progress of slavery . Neither men nor parties are the masters of events , and it is quite certain that the ...
... cause , they were driven necessarily into an alliance for self - defense as well as for the purpose of forming a barrier to the progress of slavery . Neither men nor parties are the masters of events , and it is quite certain that the ...
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... cause of justice . Upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Kansas became the theatre of civil war . To that entertainment , indeed , the country was invited . The Democratic party was in power at Washington , and its influence was ...
... cause of justice . Upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise Kansas became the theatre of civil war . To that entertainment , indeed , the country was invited . The Democratic party was in power at Washington , and its influence was ...
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Page 137 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his...
Page 136 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 136 - Both read the same bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 127 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 125 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 134 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States, and parts of States, wherein the...
Page 114 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 128 - 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 130 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, 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.