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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... desire to preserve the peace and har- mony of the Republic . They had no wish save to give effect to the Constitution and laws as they stood . They had assured the delegates from the South that if they would be content with slavery ...
... desire to preserve the peace and har- mony of the Republic . They had no wish save to give effect to the Constitution and laws as they stood . They had assured the delegates from the South that if they would be content with slavery ...
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... , and gloom , and despair , are resting upon you to - day like the frown of God . Are you in love with this , and do you desire it to continue ? * PROSECUTED BY CRUELTY AND TERROR . 25 He then draws 24 CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION .
... , and gloom , and despair , are resting upon you to - day like the frown of God . Are you in love with this , and do you desire it to continue ? * PROSECUTED BY CRUELTY AND TERROR . 25 He then draws 24 CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION .
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... desire for other wars , all which are the common fruits of all such conflicts ; the like destruction , in the North as in the South , of the thousands of the noble and the brave who have fallen in battle , with the agony which has been ...
... desire for other wars , all which are the common fruits of all such conflicts ; the like destruction , in the North as in the South , of the thousands of the noble and the brave who have fallen in battle , with the agony which has been ...
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... desire to join the Southern army as it shall pass through our borders , had better organize at once for the purpose . ” This was published nearly a week before the Virginia Convention passed the ordinance of secession , and forty days ...
... desire to join the Southern army as it shall pass through our borders , had better organize at once for the purpose . ” This was published nearly a week before the Virginia Convention passed the ordinance of secession , and forty days ...
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... desire for an inde pendent nationality ; a wish to found an aristocracy , or a monarchy , or both ; a strike for ... desires and aspirations into execution in the form of open rebellion . 3 CHAPTER II . CAUSE OF THE REBELLION . It is.
... desire for an inde pendent nationality ; a wish to found an aristocracy , or a monarchy , or both ; a strike for ... desires and aspirations into execution in the form of open rebellion . 3 CHAPTER II . CAUSE OF THE REBELLION . It is.
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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