General McClellan and the Conduct of the WarSheldon, 1864 - 312 pages |
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... finally adopted , as the sole alternative of a disorderly dissolu- tion , a plan of Constitution which was very far from com- manding the cordial and deliberate support of the delegates , and was with no little difficulty recommended to ...
... finally adopted , as the sole alternative of a disorderly dissolu- tion , a plan of Constitution which was very far from com- manding the cordial and deliberate support of the delegates , and was with no little difficulty recommended to ...
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... finally rejected , Congress met and adjourned from day to day without doing anything ; and the members from the Eastern States openly threatened the seces- sion of those States from the Union , and the formation of an Eastern ...
... finally rejected , Congress met and adjourned from day to day without doing anything ; and the members from the Eastern States openly threatened the seces- sion of those States from the Union , and the formation of an Eastern ...
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... finally to have conjured , but simply to have modified when the rupture of the peace of Amiens induced the First Consul of France to abandon his projects upon Louisiana , the cession of which he had obtained from Spain , and to transfer ...
... finally to have conjured , but simply to have modified when the rupture of the peace of Amiens induced the First Consul of France to abandon his projects upon Louisiana , the cession of which he had obtained from Spain , and to transfer ...
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... finally revised the phraseology of the Federal Constitution in the convention of 1787 , openly encouraged New England to persevere in the course upon which she had entered , declared that New York must join with her , and maintained ...
... finally revised the phraseology of the Federal Constitution in the convention of 1787 , openly encouraged New England to persevere in the course upon which she had entered , declared that New York must join with her , and maintained ...
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... finally admitted , after more than two years of hot and perilous controversy , by a majority of no more than four votes in a House of Representatives of nearly two hun- dred members . One man , at least , in America , fully comprehended ...
... finally admitted , after more than two years of hot and perilous controversy , by a majority of no more than four votes in a House of Representatives of nearly two hun- dred members . One man , at least , in America , fully comprehended ...
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Page 127 - That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces.
Page 214 - 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 noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated.
Page 261 - ... nation. All points of secondary importance elsewhere should be abandoned, and every available man brought here. A decided victory here, and the military strength of the rebellion is crushed ; it matters not what partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere. Here is the true defense of Washington; it is here, on the banks of the James, that the fate of the Union should be decided.
Page 241 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 71 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 245 - You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy. Upon your march, you have been assailed day after day, with desperate fury, by men of the same race and nation, skilfully massed and led.
Page 241 - I 20,000 or even 10,000 fresh troops to use to-morrow I could take Richmond, but I have not a man in reserve, and .shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. If we have lost the day we have yet preserved our honor, and no one need blush for the Army of the Potomac.
Page 212 - Your despatches, complaining that you are not properly sustained, while they do not offend me, do pain me very much.
Page 33 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 44 - That Congress possesses no constitutional authority to interfere in any way with the institution of slavery in any of the States of this confederacy; and that in the opinion of this House, Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia...