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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... passing notice . AGAINST POPULAR GOVERNMENT . 1. The primal characteristic it exhibits is that of a vio- lent demonstration against the life - principle of Popular Government . The ultimate sovereignty and true source of all political ...
... passing notice . AGAINST POPULAR GOVERNMENT . 1. The primal characteristic it exhibits is that of a vio- lent demonstration against the life - principle of Popular Government . The ultimate sovereignty and true source of all political ...
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... passing any law against taking slaves into such territory . It guaranteed the admis- sion of States into the Union from " any Territory North or South of said line , " either with or without slavery , as the Constitution of each State ...
... passing any law against taking slaves into such territory . It guaranteed the admis- sion of States into the Union from " any Territory North or South of said line , " either with or without slavery , as the Constitution of each State ...
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... passed this Ordinance . One of the ear- liest acts of the First Congress passed under the Constitution and during the admin- istration of General Washington as President , embracing again several men who had been in the Convention that ...
... passed this Ordinance . One of the ear- liest acts of the First Congress passed under the Constitution and during the admin- istration of General Washington as President , embracing again several men who had been in the Convention that ...
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... passed both branches of Congress by the requisite majority of two - thirds , and in- deed almost unanimously . It is highly probable that it would have been passed by the required number of the States , had not the violent measures of ...
... passed both branches of Congress by the requisite majority of two - thirds , and in- deed almost unanimously . It is highly probable that it would have been passed by the required number of the States , had not the violent measures of ...
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... .—— no ordinance of secession could have been passed . work of long and sinister industry to bring it about . As it was , it was a It became neces- PERPETRATED BY FRAUD AND VIOLENCE . 19 sary to fire 18 CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION .
... .—— no ordinance of secession could have been passed . work of long and sinister industry to bring it about . As it was , it was a It became neces- PERPETRATED BY FRAUD AND VIOLENCE . 19 sary to fire 18 CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION .
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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