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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... sentiment , if we may judge from what has been said and written . There is undoubtedly justice or injustice in the charge , according to the direction given to it . It is then essential that the matter be probed , so that if the Church ...
... sentiment , if we may judge from what has been said and written . There is undoubtedly justice or injustice in the charge , according to the direction given to it . It is then essential that the matter be probed , so that if the Church ...
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... sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible , that the property , peace , and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now ...
... sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible , that the property , peace , and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now ...
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... sentiments of the people expressed in the election , the whole question was left open to the decision of the people in each Territory when they should form their respective State Constitutions ; thus practically allowing to the South ...
... sentiments of the people expressed in the election , the whole question was left open to the decision of the people in each Territory when they should form their respective State Constitutions ; thus practically allowing to the South ...
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... sentiments and act in the name of the North , form intrenchments around the Southern States , with the avowed pur- pose of arresting their further expansion , it is in vain to deny that the South has the most grave and momentous cause ...
... sentiments and act in the name of the North , form intrenchments around the Southern States , with the avowed pur- pose of arresting their further expansion , it is in vain to deny that the South has the most grave and momentous cause ...
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... sentiment of the majority of the State would be overruled . Quarrels arose . Ardent and reckless men were distempered with passion . It was no longer safe to discuss the subject of the day in the streets . The hotels were filled with ...
... sentiment of the majority of the State would be overruled . Quarrels arose . Ardent and reckless men were distempered with passion . It was no longer safe to discuss the subject of the day in the streets . The hotels were filled with ...
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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