Eloquent Sons of the South: A Handbook of Southern Oratory, Volume 2John Temple Graves, Clark Howell, Walter Williams Chapple Publishing Company, Limited, 1909 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... North Carolina , with the Scotch caution . which subsequent events have so well justi- fied , in 1788 passed this ... North Carolina . " And in keeping with this , North Carolina withheld her ratification ; she allowed the government to ...
... North Carolina , with the Scotch caution . which subsequent events have so well justi- fied , in 1788 passed this ... North Carolina . " And in keeping with this , North Carolina withheld her ratification ; she allowed the government to ...
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... North . How a manu- facturing and commercial people can be truly represented by those who would in- culcate such doctrines as these , is to me passing strange . Is it vain boasting which renders them anxious to proclaim to the world ...
... North . How a manu- facturing and commercial people can be truly represented by those who would in- culcate such doctrines as these , is to me passing strange . Is it vain boasting which renders them anxious to proclaim to the world ...
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... North and South . Why , sir , they are recognized every day . The distinction has been recognized by the statesmen of every day , and every section of the country . Am I to be told that the question has not assumed that character , and ...
... North and South . Why , sir , they are recognized every day . The distinction has been recognized by the statesmen of every day , and every section of the country . Am I to be told that the question has not assumed that character , and ...
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... North has violated the Missouri Compromise and the South has maintained it ; and yet do you tell me that there is no North and no South ? Let us look at the action of the North and South . I am not going back to make a technical , or ...
... North has violated the Missouri Compromise and the South has maintained it ; and yet do you tell me that there is no North and no South ? Let us look at the action of the North and South . I am not going back to make a technical , or ...
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... than those which I formerly gave here , that were personal to myself . It is alleged that the refusal on the part of the North to continue the Missouri Com- promise line over the acquisitions of 1847 and 1848 was SAM HOUSTON 55.
... than those which I formerly gave here , that were personal to myself . It is alleged that the refusal on the part of the North to continue the Missouri Com- promise line over the acquisitions of 1847 and 1848 was SAM HOUSTON 55.
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Page 40 - After four years' of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them ; but, feeling that...
Page 206 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 227 - There was a South of slavery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." These words, delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill, at Tammany Hall in 1866, true then, and truer now, I shall make my text to-night.
Page 233 - Dr. Talmage has drawn for you, with a master's hand, the picture of your returning armies. He has told you how, in the pomp and circumstance of war, they came back to you, marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glory in a nation's eyes ! Will you bear with me...
Page 104 - 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 14 - That the Powers of Government may be reassumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by the said Constitution clearly delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments of the Government thereof, remains to the People of the several States, or to their respective State Governments to whom they may have granted the same...
Page 2 - ... of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the states respectively on entering into the Constitutional compact which formed the Union, and, as such, is a manifest breach of faith, and a violation of the most solemn obligations, moral and religious.
Page 227 - Let me express to you my appreciation of the kindness by which I am permitted to address you. I make this abrupt acknowledgment advisedly, for I feel that if, when I raise my provincial voice in this ancient and august presence, I could find courage for no more than the opening sentence, it would be well if, in that sentence, I had met in a rough sense my obligation as a guest, and had perished, so to speak, with courtesy on my lips and grace in my heart.
Page 154 - Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean...
Page 206 - Nebraska bill declared, in so many words, that it was the true intent and meaning of the act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.