The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 1T. Belknap, 1874 - United States |
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... whole narrative into a space so small as to make the chronicle accessible to the great body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a popular narrative of the struggle without much criticism , and as free from technical terms and ...
... whole narrative into a space so small as to make the chronicle accessible to the great body of my coun- trymen . I have endeavored to give a popular narrative of the struggle without much criticism , and as free from technical terms and ...
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... whole matter to the Convention . It was claimed , that the sece- ding delegates had a right to re - enter the Convention if they chose to do so . This right was denied , and the language of the resolution respecting the adjournment at ...
... whole matter to the Convention . It was claimed , that the sece- ding delegates had a right to re - enter the Convention if they chose to do so . This right was denied , and the language of the resolution respecting the adjournment at ...
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... whole country eastward of the Mississippi River . He wrote to the venerable Gen- eral Lewis Cass ( also his companion - in - arms in the War of 1812 ) , Buchanan's Secretary of State , on the 6th of De- cember , saying : - " South ...
... whole country eastward of the Mississippi River . He wrote to the venerable Gen- eral Lewis Cass ( also his companion - in - arms in the War of 1812 ) , Buchanan's Secretary of State , on the 6th of De- cember , saying : - " South ...
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... whole scheme of revolt had been deliberately planned long before the assembling of Congress , and that the talk about guaranties , and concessions , and compromises , on the part of the conspirators , was sheer hypocrisy , intended to ...
... whole scheme of revolt had been deliberately planned long before the assembling of Congress , and that the talk about guaranties , and concessions , and compromises , on the part of the conspirators , was sheer hypocrisy , intended to ...
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... whole assembly at once rose to its feet , and , with hats off , listened to the touching and eloquent appeal to the All - wise Disposer of events . " At the conclusion of the ceremonies , when the signatures had all been affixed by the ...
... whole assembly at once rose to its feet , and , with hats off , listened to the touching and eloquent appeal to the All - wise Disposer of events . " At the conclusion of the ceremonies , when the signatures had all been affixed by the ...
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Page 248 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Page 292 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 260 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 32 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 293 - Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Page 292 - I deem it better to forego, for the time, the uses of such offices. The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union. So far as possible, the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience...
Page 291 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 248 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the...
Page 292 - Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution — certainly would, if such right were a vital one.
Page 290 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.