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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... Politicians Sought to Carry the State - Gover- nor Buckingham's Re - election - Lincoln's Campaign - His Acquaintance with Governor Buckingbam and Its Effect - The Presidential Election of 1860 . CHAPTER IV . THE SECESSION Movement , 63 ...
... Politicians Sought to Carry the State - Gover- nor Buckingham's Re - election - Lincoln's Campaign - His Acquaintance with Governor Buckingbam and Its Effect - The Presidential Election of 1860 . CHAPTER IV . THE SECESSION Movement , 63 ...
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... politics , if he lived to have the opportunity , he always voted for him . At any rate he never came to Norwich without calling upon the Governor , and once a year the Governor gave him a new hat . But whatever may have been the pranks ...
... politics , if he lived to have the opportunity , he always voted for him . At any rate he never came to Norwich without calling upon the Governor , and once a year the Governor gave him a new hat . But whatever may have been the pranks ...
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... And when we were so well aware that union was our safety , and disunion our destruction , as to have adopted it as a political maxim , " United we stand , divided we fall , " it did seem as if nothing but insane madness ,
... And when we were so well aware that union was our safety , and disunion our destruction , as to have adopted it as a political maxim , " United we stand , divided we fall , " it did seem as if nothing but insane madness ,
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... political parties , and some even from the slave states , should protest against it . Hence came the " Wilmot Proviso of 1846 , " a proviso moved by Mr. Wilmot of Pennsylvania , of the House of Representatives in Congress , to be ...
... political parties , and some even from the slave states , should protest against it . Hence came the " Wilmot Proviso of 1846 , " a proviso moved by Mr. Wilmot of Pennsylvania , of the House of Representatives in Congress , to be ...
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... political history when a party conducting a war victorious at every step , steadily lost ground in the country . " In regard to our little respect for freedom and human rights , even as com- pared with Mexico , it is humiliating to read ...
... political history when a party conducting a war victorious at every step , steadily lost ground in the country . " In regard to our little respect for freedom and human rights , even as com- pared with Mexico , it is humiliating to read ...
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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.