The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc, Volume 1Virtue & Yorston, 1862 - Slavery |
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... night . Illuminated banners , gigantic flags , and posters made the names of Lincoln and Hamlin familiar to every eye and ear . Republican orators , of whom Seward , himself the leading competitor for the nomination of President with ...
... night . Illuminated banners , gigantic flags , and posters made the names of Lincoln and Hamlin familiar to every eye and ear . Republican orators , of whom Seward , himself the leading competitor for the nomination of President with ...
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... night in dread of what may befall her- self and her children before the morn- ing . Should this apprehension of do- mestic danger , whether real or imagin- ary , extend and intensify itself until it shall pervade the masses of the ...
... night in dread of what may befall her- self and her children before the morn- ing . Should this apprehension of do- mestic danger , whether real or imagin- ary , extend and intensify itself until it shall pervade the masses of the ...
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... night of leaden despotism would enshroud the nations . Our example for more than eighty years would not only be lost , but it would be quoted as a conclusive proof that man is unfit for self - government . to avert it by proposing and ...
... night of leaden despotism would enshroud the nations . Our example for more than eighty years would not only be lost , but it would be quoted as a conclusive proof that man is unfit for self - government . to avert it by proposing and ...
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... night may differ . If we keep entirely cool , of the 6th of November last , when a and entirely calm , and entirely kind , a President and Vice - President who were debate will ensue which will be kindly unacceptable to the slave States ...
... night may differ . If we keep entirely cool , of the 6th of November last , when a and entirely calm , and entirely kind , a President and Vice - President who were debate will ensue which will be kindly unacceptable to the slave States ...
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... Night . - In possession of Fort Sumter . - Excitement in Charleston . - The abandoned Federal Forts taken possession of by the South Caro- linians . - The condition of Fort Moultrie described . - Seizure of Public Property ...
... Night . - In possession of Fort Sumter . - Excitement in Charleston . - The abandoned Federal Forts taken possession of by the South Caro- linians . - The condition of Fort Moultrie described . - Seizure of Public Property ...
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Page 42 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed ; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 109 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 111 - 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 115 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 96 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; 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.
Page 158 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 113 - ... decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions...
Page 112 - Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 111 - Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of...
Page 42 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.