The History of North America, Volume 15Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe subscribers only, 1906 - Indians of North America |
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... Compromise . Ac- quisition of the Floridas . Westward migration . New free States . Texas admitted . Upper California pur- chased . Extent of territory at close of Mexican War . Set- tlement of California . Why California adopted a free ...
... Compromise . Ac- quisition of the Floridas . Westward migration . New free States . Texas admitted . Upper California pur- chased . Extent of territory at close of Mexican War . Set- tlement of California . Why California adopted a free ...
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... compromises in the Con- stitution . The Anti - Slavery Society . Sectional antagonism inaugurated . Congress forbids ... Compromise . Buchanan hesitates to strengthen the defenses in the South . South Carolina passes an ordinance of ...
... compromises in the Con- stitution . The Anti - Slavery Society . Sectional antagonism inaugurated . Congress forbids ... Compromise . Buchanan hesitates to strengthen the defenses in the South . South Carolina passes an ordinance of ...
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... compromise . South- ern senators and representatives withdraw from Congress . Governor Pickens demands surrender of Fort Sumter . Alexander H. Stephens's address on the Confederate Con- stitution . Question of the Border States ...
... compromise . South- ern senators and representatives withdraw from Congress . Governor Pickens demands surrender of Fort Sumter . Alexander H. Stephens's address on the Confederate Con- stitution . Question of the Border States ...
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... compromise almost from Preamble to final clause , and several most important compromises were dictated by slavery : but so evenly divided were the land and the people between free and prospectively free soil , and slave and ...
... compromise almost from Preamble to final clause , and several most important compromises were dictated by slavery : but so evenly divided were the land and the people between free and prospectively free soil , and slave and ...
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... Compromise , slavery as an institution did not exist at the North and the great Compromise extended the zone of free soil to the Rocky Mountains . Thus it appeared to many , in 1820 , that the final boundary on slavery had been set ; 16 ...
... Compromise , slavery as an institution did not exist at the North and the great Compromise extended the zone of free soil to the Rocky Mountains . Thus it appeared to many , in 1820 , that the final boundary on slavery had been set ; 16 ...
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Page 219 - 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...
Page 516 - States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 217 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 482 - Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 482 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up— for you the flag is flung— for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 310 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 459 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address...
Page 516 - ... 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 people...
Page 459 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 154 - 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...