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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... leaders in its councils , and who are largely responsible for the formation and character of its public opinion , -may be justly held to have done much towards precipitating the Rebellion , as well as aiding it during the whole course ...
... leaders in its councils , and who are largely responsible for the formation and character of its public opinion , -may be justly held to have done much towards precipitating the Rebellion , as well as aiding it during the whole course ...
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... leaders exercised only a modicum of that saga- city which had characterized them in its better days , it could have secured for the South all that the South had a right to demand under the Constitution , and saved the land . from a ...
... leaders exercised only a modicum of that saga- city which had characterized them in its better days , it could have secured for the South all that the South had a right to demand under the Constitution , and saved the land . from a ...
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... 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 the States into ...
... 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 the States into ...
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... leaders of the rebellion scouted them with scorn . Some of them publicly declared , as in the case of the Hon . Lawrence M. Keitt , member of the House of Represen- tatives from South Carolina , -that if a blank parchment were given ...
... leaders of the rebellion scouted them with scorn . Some of them publicly declared , as in the case of the Hon . Lawrence M. Keitt , member of the House of Represen- tatives from South Carolina , -that if a blank parchment were given ...
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... leaders of the rebellion " were resolved not to be satisfied . " They looked with proud contempt upon the men who endeavored to conciliate them , and regarded their most generous conces- sions as prompted by pusillanimity and cowardice ...
... leaders of the rebellion " were resolved not to be satisfied . " They looked with proud contempt upon the men who endeavored to conciliate them , and regarded their most generous conces- sions as prompted by pusillanimity and cowardice ...
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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