History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volume 3J. R. Osgood, 1877 - Antislavery movements |
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... issue . - Hopeful . - Report of Secretary of War . Great and rapid increase of the army . - Congratulations . Bull Run . No ground for discouragement . Sanitary agencies . - Escaping slaves . -Report of Navy . - Three lines of ...
... issue . - Hopeful . - Report of Secretary of War . Great and rapid increase of the army . - Congratulations . Bull Run . No ground for discouragement . Sanitary agencies . - Escaping slaves . -Report of Navy . - Three lines of ...
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... issue , and proposing measures commensurate with the exigencies of the hour , he left the country wondering at its imbecility , and oppressed with the sickening conviction that in that supreme moment of the nation's history they who ...
... issue , and proposing measures commensurate with the exigencies of the hour , he left the country wondering at its imbecility , and oppressed with the sickening conviction that in that supreme moment of the nation's history they who ...
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... issue in limine . " " It is idle , " he said , " for men to shut their eyes to consequences like these . If anything can be done to avert the evil , let those who have the power do it . " He regarded it as one of the wisest remarks of ...
... issue in limine . " " It is idle , " he said , " for men to shut their eyes to consequences like these . If anything can be done to avert the evil , let those who have the power do it . " He regarded it as one of the wisest remarks of ...
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... issue , Lyman Trumbull made a vigorous and fitting reply . Attributing the desperateness of affairs to the irresolution and indecision of the outgoing executive , he expressed his confidence that they would learn to - morrow , from the ...
... issue , Lyman Trumbull made a vigorous and fitting reply . Attributing the desperateness of affairs to the irresolution and indecision of the outgoing executive , he expressed his confidence that they would learn to - morrow , from the ...
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... issue . The Rebel demand was the withdrawal of the garrison . " Earnest in those opinions , " said Jesse D. Bright in his speech in the United States Senate on the resolution for his expul- sion , “ I joined others in urgent appeals to ...
... issue . The Rebel demand was the withdrawal of the garrison . " Earnest in those opinions , " said Jesse D. Bright in his speech in the United States Senate on the resolution for his expul- sion , “ I joined others in urgent appeals to ...
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Page 234 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 576 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 222 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 176 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 180 - I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration.
Page 223 - This is essentially a People's contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men...
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Page 180 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 222 - The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this they can only do so against law and by revolution. The Union, and not themselves separately, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase the Union gave each of them whatever of independence and liberty it has. The Union is older than any of the States, and in fact it created them as States.
Page 182 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present...