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... Confederacy ) , representative South- erners gave their testimony to the life and charac- ter of the great American . The Committee in charge of the commemoration in New York arranged for a series of addresses to be given to the people ...
... Confederacy ) , representative South- erners gave their testimony to the life and charac- ter of the great American . The Committee in charge of the commemoration in New York arranged for a series of addresses to be given to the people ...
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... Confederate commander , General Taylor . More than once , we were short of provisions , and , in one instance , a supply of stationery for which the adjutants of the brigade had been waiting , was carried off to serve the needs of our ...
... Confederate commander , General Taylor . More than once , we were short of provisions , and , in one instance , a supply of stationery for which the adjutants of the brigade had been waiting , was carried off to serve the needs of our ...
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... into by their ancestors , first under the Articles of Confederation of 1783 , and later under the Constitution of 1789. Our ancestors had , for the purpose of bringing about the organisation of the Entrance into Politics 21.
... into by their ancestors , first under the Articles of Confederation of 1783 , and later under the Constitution of 1789. Our ancestors had , for the purpose of bringing about the organisation of the Entrance into Politics 21.
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... Confederate States , was an outgrowth of this conviction . It was an indefensible proposition , akin to that which prompted Bismarck to make use of France as an anvil on which to hammer and weld Germany together , but it was not an un ...
... Confederate States , was an outgrowth of this conviction . It was an indefensible proposition , akin to that which prompted Bismarck to make use of France as an anvil on which to hammer and weld Germany together , but it was not an un ...
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... Confederacy had already been organised in Montgomery . Alexander H. Stephens had so far modified his original position that he had accepted the post of Vice - President and in his own inaugural address had used the phrase , " Slavery is ...
... Confederacy had already been organised in Montgomery . Alexander H. Stephens had so far modified his original position that he had accepted the post of Vice - President and in his own inaugural address had used the phrase , " Slavery is ...
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Page 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 152 - ... but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 170 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 284 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 269 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected ; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall he formed in the said Territory...
Page 128 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 265 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension, its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.
Page 261 - Also, it would be open to show, by contemporaneous history, that this mode of alluding to slaves and slavery, instead of speaking of them, was employed on purpose to exclude from the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man. To show all this is easy and certain. When this obvious mistake of the judges shall be brought to their notice, is it not reasonable to expect that they will withdraw the mistaken statement, and reconsider the conclusion based upon it ? And then it is to be remembered...
Page 239 - Confederation; and two more of the "thirtynine" who afterward signed the Constitution were in that Congress, and voted on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory.
Page 171 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.