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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... hands . Any branch of the government , executive , legislative , or judicial , which usurps authority , may be speedily reached and the correc- tive applied , as , for example , in the United States , -by impeachment , or by the ballot ...
... hands . Any branch of the government , executive , legislative , or judicial , which usurps authority , may be speedily reached and the correc- tive applied , as , for example , in the United States , -by impeachment , or by the ballot ...
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... hands , my dissatisfied fellow- countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Govern- ment will not assail you . You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath registered ...
... hands , my dissatisfied fellow- countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Govern- ment will not assail you . You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath registered ...
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... hand , forged by the leaders against the sovereign people of the United States , in the face of the most public and indisputable facts to the contrary , and employed as a rallying cry to deceive the masses at the South and precipitate ...
... hand , forged by the leaders against the sovereign people of the United States , in the face of the most public and indisputable facts to the contrary , and employed as a rallying cry to deceive the masses at the South and precipitate ...
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... hands . In the Peace Confer- ence , to which he had thus been appointed , he and his Northern colleagues had been animated by the sincerest and most anxious desire to preserve the peace and har- mony of the Republic . They had no wish ...
... hands . In the Peace Confer- ence , to which he had thus been appointed , he and his Northern colleagues had been animated by the sincerest and most anxious desire to preserve the peace and har- mony of the Republic . They had no wish ...
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... hands at this momentous crisis . " Hence he criticizes their platform and condemns their principles and general course , and in these finds justification or palliatives for the South . Here is a specimen : " So long , in a word , as the ...
... hands at this momentous crisis . " Hence he criticizes their platform and condemns their principles and general course , and in these finds justification or palliatives for the South . Here is a specimen : " So long , in a word , as the ...
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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