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Page 223
... Major An- derson ; and the Commissioners demanded , as a preliminary step to negotiation , that the garrison should be withdrawn . This the President refused to do , and de- clared that his intention was to collect the reserve , execute ...
... Major An- derson ; and the Commissioners demanded , as a preliminary step to negotiation , that the garrison should be withdrawn . This the President refused to do , and de- clared that his intention was to collect the reserve , execute ...
Page 224
... Major Anderson , his own Secre- tary of War , Mr. Floyd , turned against him , and sent in his re- signation , declaring in his letter that " the solemn pledges of the Government had been violated by Major Anderson , " and that it was ...
... Major Anderson , his own Secre- tary of War , Mr. Floyd , turned against him , and sent in his re- signation , declaring in his letter that " the solemn pledges of the Government had been violated by Major Anderson , " and that it was ...
Page 231
... Major Anderson to surrender , and , on his refusal , from " a sense of honour , " opened fire on the fort the next morning . This may be said to have been the commencement of the civil war . The fort replied vigorously to the attack ...
... Major Anderson to surrender , and , on his refusal , from " a sense of honour , " opened fire on the fort the next morning . This may be said to have been the commencement of the civil war . The fort replied vigorously to the attack ...
Page 250
... major- general . On the 10th of August General Lyons , at the head of 8000 Federal troops , attacked the Con- federates about nine miles south- east of Springfield , in Missouri , but met with a severe repulse . He himself was killed in ...
... major- general . On the 10th of August General Lyons , at the head of 8000 Federal troops , attacked the Con- federates about nine miles south- east of Springfield , in Missouri , but met with a severe repulse . He himself was killed in ...
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... Major Deacon asked him if he could do anything for him . He said , " Major Deacon , I did not intend to kill Sergeant Jones . " He appeared at that time not to be drunk , but to have been drinking for some days . Mr. Cole addressed the ...
... Major Deacon asked him if he could do anything for him . He said , " Major Deacon , I did not intend to kill Sergeant Jones . " He appeared at that time not to be drunk , but to have been drinking for some days . Mr. Cole addressed the ...
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Page 212 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 213 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 212 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
Page 217 - We therefore have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation. " And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects...
Page 205 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 214 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend
Page 212 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 213 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Page 210 - ... I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 259 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable...