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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... - Breaking Up of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet - His Own Partial Change of Opinion - How and Why South Carolina Forced Secession - Most of the Slave States Averse to It . CHAPTER V. PEACE CONVENTION , - 74 The Connecticut Delegation.
... - Breaking Up of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet - His Own Partial Change of Opinion - How and Why South Carolina Forced Secession - Most of the Slave States Averse to It . CHAPTER V. PEACE CONVENTION , - 74 The Connecticut Delegation.
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... PEACE CONVENTION , - 74 The Connecticut Delegation in the Washington_Convention - Governor Bucking- ham's Letter of Instructions - Connecticut's Proposition for a Convention on Amendment of the Constitution - The Attitude of Virginia ...
... PEACE CONVENTION , - 74 The Connecticut Delegation in the Washington_Convention - Governor Bucking- ham's Letter of Instructions - Connecticut's Proposition for a Convention on Amendment of the Constitution - The Attitude of Virginia ...
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... Peace Demo- crats " -The Magnificent Troops that Volunteered in Spite of all such Influence -Character and Destination of the Regiments - The First Heavy Artillery and the First Light Battery . CHAPTER XII . THE YEAR 1862 , - 202 Review ...
... Peace Demo- crats " -The Magnificent Troops that Volunteered in Spite of all such Influence -Character and Destination of the Regiments - The First Heavy Artillery and the First Light Battery . CHAPTER XII . THE YEAR 1862 , - 202 Review ...
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... peace , and with the expectation that this would be the final settlement of the whole matter . Nobody proposed then to break up that whole arrangement , agreed upon so early and acted upon so often ; certainly no one could have dreamed ...
... peace , and with the expectation that this would be the final settlement of the whole matter . Nobody proposed then to break up that whole arrangement , agreed upon so early and acted upon so often ; certainly no one could have dreamed ...
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... peaceful and undisputed election they ever held , and the free - state men , by a majority of two to one , had carried both houses of the Legislature in favor of freedom , yet this victory was snatched from them by fraudulent returns ...
... peaceful and undisputed election they ever held , and the free - state men , by a majority of two to one , had carried both houses of the Legislature in favor of freedom , yet this victory was snatched from them by fraudulent returns ...
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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.