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... president of the Southern Confederacy ; Jacob Collamer with Thomas Butler King , and Samuel F. Vinton with Henry W. Hilliard . History must record that the Mexican war was undertaken in the interest of human slavery ; yet , touching the ...
... president of the Southern Confederacy ; Jacob Collamer with Thomas Butler King , and Samuel F. Vinton with Henry W. Hilliard . History must record that the Mexican war was undertaken in the interest of human slavery ; yet , touching the ...
Page 102
... President an opportunity to furnish the grounds of his allega- tions , and set himself right before the nation . These resolu- tions are remarkable for their definite statement of the points actually at issue between the administration ...
... President an opportunity to furnish the grounds of his allega- tions , and set himself right before the nation . These resolu- tions are remarkable for their definite statement of the points actually at issue between the administration ...
Page 103
... President to show that his position touching the war was sustained by them ; they felt compelled to condemn the commander - in - chief of the armies , sitting in the White House , and to vote thanks to the generals who had successfully ...
... President to show that his position touching the war was sustained by them ; they felt compelled to condemn the commander - in - chief of the armies , sitting in the White House , and to vote thanks to the generals who had successfully ...
Page 104
... President of the United States , " in company with nearly all the whig members of the House , southern no less than northern . The same men voted thanks to General Taylor for his brilliant achievements in the war . The speech of Mr ...
... President of the United States , " in company with nearly all the whig members of the House , southern no less than northern . The same men voted thanks to General Taylor for his brilliant achievements in the war . The speech of Mr ...
Page 105
... President and his friends will not allow it to be so . Besides the continual effort of the President to argue every silent vote given for supplies into an indorsement of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly ...
... President and his friends will not allow it to be so . Besides the continual effort of the President to argue every silent vote given for supplies into an indorsement of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly ...
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Page 353 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 502 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 398 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do• on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the states...
Page 405 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 160 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 209 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.
Page 394 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 280 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 284 - 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 it.
Page 393 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...