The History of North America, Volume 15Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe subscribers only, 1906 - Indians of North America |
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... decision declared slavery national . Conditions that planted slavery in the South . Effect of foreign immigration on sectional growth . The North not generally hostile to slavery . Economic disad- vantages of slavery at the South ...
... decision declared slavery national . Conditions that planted slavery in the South . Effect of foreign immigration on sectional growth . The North not generally hostile to slavery . Economic disad- vantages of slavery at the South ...
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... Border States . Lincoln consents to evacuate Forts Sumter and Pickens . He reverses his decision . Orders reinforcements of the forts . Futile nego- CHAPTER act . Attack on tiations for surrender of Sumter CONTENTS xvii.
... Border States . Lincoln consents to evacuate Forts Sumter and Pickens . He reverses his decision . Orders reinforcements of the forts . Futile nego- CHAPTER act . Attack on tiations for surrender of Sumter CONTENTS xvii.
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... decision of the people who should organize it . This took the question out of the hands of Congress and left it with the inhabitants of a Territory . Douglas suc- ceeded in passing his provision that the Missouri restric- tion , the ...
... decision of the people who should organize it . This took the question out of the hands of Congress and left it with the inhabitants of a Territory . Douglas suc- ceeded in passing his provision that the Missouri restric- tion , the ...
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... decision of the people in these States at the time of their admission into the Union was not likely to happen as the South hoped and contemplated . The actual vote in Kansas when a fair and lawful vote was secured demonstrated this ...
... decision of the people in these States at the time of their admission into the Union was not likely to happen as the South hoped and contemplated . The actual vote in Kansas when a fair and lawful vote was secured demonstrated this ...
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... decision which ap- proached nearer to the consummation of the will of slavoc- racy than any act or decision before it had done . By that decision slaves were property , not persons and , in contem- plation of law , not citizens . The ...
... decision which ap- proached nearer to the consummation of the will of slavoc- racy than any act or decision before it had done . By that decision slaves were property , not persons and , in contem- plation of law , not citizens . The ...
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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...