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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... present to the Senate , are little more than the announcement of what I hold to be the clearly expressed declarations of the Con- stitution itself . To that fixed standard it is sought , at this time , when we are drifting far from the ...
... present to the Senate , are little more than the announcement of what I hold to be the clearly expressed declarations of the Con- stitution itself . To that fixed standard it is sought , at this time , when we are drifting far from the ...
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... present condition of man , above the obligations of the civil government ? The Constitution is the law supreme of every American . It is the plighted faith of our fathers ; it is the hope of our posterity . Then , I come not to argue ...
... present condition of man , above the obligations of the civil government ? The Constitution is the law supreme of every American . It is the plighted faith of our fathers ; it is the hope of our posterity . Then , I come not to argue ...
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... present Confederation was deficient in not providing for coer- cion and punishment against delinquent states , but argued very cogently that punishment could not , in the nature of things , be executed on the states collec- tively ; and ...
... present Confederation was deficient in not providing for coer- cion and punishment against delinquent states , but argued very cogently that punishment could not , in the nature of things , be executed on the states collec- tively ; and ...
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... present is , whether the Southern states shall or shall not be parties to the Union . If the Northern states consult their interest , they will not oppose the increase of slaves , which will increase the commodities of which they will ...
... present is , whether the Southern states shall or shall not be parties to the Union . If the Northern states consult their interest , they will not oppose the increase of slaves , which will increase the commodities of which they will ...
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... present condition , achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations , illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed , and that it is the right of the people to alter and abolish ...
... present condition , achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations , illustrates the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed , and that it is the right of the people to alter and abolish ...
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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.