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... McClellan . CHAPTER XXXV . NEW NATIONAL LIFE , • A Shattered Idol - A New State - Contraband of War - Transitions and Pro- cesses - Lincoln a Dictator - The Law of Revolution . CHAPTER XXXVI . PRESIDENT AND GENERAL , The Army of the ...
... McClellan . CHAPTER XXXV . NEW NATIONAL LIFE , • A Shattered Idol - A New State - Contraband of War - Transitions and Pro- cesses - Lincoln a Dictator - The Law of Revolution . CHAPTER XXXVI . PRESIDENT AND GENERAL , The Army of the ...
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... McClellan , Mr. Lincoln was able to say of an order he had given and was defending : " I ordered . . . on the unanimous opinion of every military man I could get an opinion from , and every modern military book , -yourself only excepted ...
... McClellan , Mr. Lincoln was able to say of an order he had given and was defending : " I ordered . . . on the unanimous opinion of every military man I could get an opinion from , and every modern military book , -yourself only excepted ...
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... McClellan . WHEN Congress adjourned on the 6th of August , 1861 , there was a strong feeling in the minds of its membership , and throughout the country among all men , that to " the Govern- ment , " meaning by that word , very ...
... McClellan . WHEN Congress adjourned on the 6th of August , 1861 , there was a strong feeling in the minds of its membership , and throughout the country among all men , that to " the Govern- ment , " meaning by that word , very ...
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... McClellan , and the President is himself a witness that his first commander did zealously and well the part that by nature and assignment belonged to him . There is a sense in which it was the part of a truly great Orderly Ser- geant ...
... McClellan , and the President is himself a witness that his first commander did zealously and well the part that by nature and assignment belonged to him . There is a sense in which it was the part of a truly great Orderly Ser- geant ...
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... McClellan's staff was announced by the door - keeper and was admitted . The President turned in his chair to hear , and was informed , in respectful set terms , that the advance movement could not be made . " Why ? " he curtly demanded ...
... McClellan's staff was announced by the door - keeper and was admitted . The President turned in his chair to hear , and was informed , in respectful set terms , that the advance movement could not be made . " Why ? " he curtly demanded ...
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Page 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 449 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 368 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and 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...
Page 466 - 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 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 450 - 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 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 465 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 336 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 450 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years...