The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto |
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... arms had actually come , as he was to speak eloquently for peace as long as peace was possible . What good fruit could be expected from the labors of the Peace Convention , when their extreme and generous concessions to the South were ...
... arms had actually come , as he was to speak eloquently for peace as long as peace was possible . What good fruit could be expected from the labors of the Peace Convention , when their extreme and generous concessions to the South were ...
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... arms should come - a mistake of which they have since had ample proof . This characteristic of the rebellion thus exhibits the most indubitable evidence , -and it is furnished in many other * In an account of a public meeting held at ...
... arms should come - a mistake of which they have since had ample proof . This characteristic of the rebellion thus exhibits the most indubitable evidence , -and it is furnished in many other * In an account of a public meeting held at ...
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... arms have been driven into the army , and of the total repudiation of plighted faith in forcing those to enter it who had secured legal exemption by furnishing substitutes , and other oppressive acts of a like character , that they ...
... arms have been driven into the army , and of the total repudiation of plighted faith in forcing those to enter it who had secured legal exemption by furnishing substitutes , and other oppressive acts of a like character , that they ...
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... arms was upon the lips of all their leaders , we find that rigorous impress- ments pervaded all parts of the South . The proof is fur- nished in the Southern papers of that period , but we can- not occupy space with the details . But ...
... arms was upon the lips of all their leaders , we find that rigorous impress- ments pervaded all parts of the South . The proof is fur- nished in the Southern papers of that period , but we can- not occupy space with the details . But ...
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... arms of the Union . The only crime for which these men were exiled from the land of their birth , and for which others have suffered imprisonment at home , was their determination to adhere to the Government which had always given them ...
... arms of the Union . The only crime for which these men were exiled from the land of their birth , and for which others have suffered imprisonment at home , was their determination to adhere to the Government which had always given them ...
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abolitionism abolitionists action Address admit army Assembly authority Breckinridge cause character charge Christian civil claim condemnation Confederate Congress Constitution Convention course Decalogue declared deemed defend disloyalty divine doctrine duty election emancipation existed fact favor Fort Sumter give God's Government ground human institution issue judgment Justinian Code Kentucky labor Law of Nature laws of war leaders liberty loyal master ment ministers moral nation negro slavery North Northern opinion ordinance ordinance of secession paper party peace persons political position Presbyterian Church present President principles question reason rebel rebellion referred regard relation religious responsibility revolution sanction Scriptures seceded secession sentiment slave codes slave-trade slaveholding slaves South Carolina Southern Church statesmen STUART ROBINSON sustained Synod taken territory testimony thing Thomas R. R. Cobb Thornwell tion treason True Presbyterian Union Union armies United utter whole word