The Life of William A. Buckingham: The War Governor of Connecticut, with a Review of His Public Acts, and Especially the Distinguished Services He Rendered His Country During the War of the Rebellion; with which is Incorporated, a Condensed Account of the More Important Campaigns of the War, and Information from Private Sources and Family and Official Documents |
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... administration in its general policy , and to have rep- resented a strong administration district , and still he did not hesitate to assert that this money was wanted to secure more slave territory , and that he was resolved then and ...
... administration in its general policy , and to have rep- resented a strong administration district , and still he did not hesitate to assert that this money was wanted to secure more slave territory , and that he was resolved then and ...
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... administration which origi nated it and carried it on successfully , were all the while losing the confidence and support of the country . The House elected in the ensuing autumn had a decided ma- jority against the administration . And ...
... administration which origi nated it and carried it on successfully , were all the while losing the confidence and support of the country . The House elected in the ensuing autumn had a decided ma- jority against the administration . And ...
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... administration of the government . This ought to have settled the matter , and secured a change of national policy , as it always had done . But these were differences as fundamental , as essen- tially opposed to each other , as light ...
... administration of the government . This ought to have settled the matter , and secured a change of national policy , as it always had done . But these were differences as fundamental , as essen- tially opposed to each other , as light ...
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... administration ; so that the next three years- 1858-59-60 - were the period of deepest interest , greatest excitement , most earnest discussion , and determined energy in public affairs , that the country ever witnessed . These were the ...
... administration ; so that the next three years- 1858-59-60 - were the period of deepest interest , greatest excitement , most earnest discussion , and determined energy in public affairs , that the country ever witnessed . These were the ...
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... Georgia or South Carolina . Take these declarations in connection with the use which the administration has made of the army of the United States ; with the disregard of the pledges of popular WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM . 35.
... Georgia or South Carolina . Take these declarations in connection with the use which the administration has made of the army of the United States ; with the disregard of the pledges of popular WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM . 35.
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Page 30 - 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 326 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 125 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
Page 452 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 107 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 222 - And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty; that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy...
Page 108 - 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 91 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 107 - 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 345 - Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide.