Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts of Abolitionism; Also, Results of Slavery Agitation and Emancipation; Together with Sundry Chapters on Despotism, Usurpations and Frauds |
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... Southern Confederacy , said , when the question of Secession was pending before the people of Georgia : " What right has the North assailed ? What justice has been demanded ? and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld ...
... Southern Confederacy , said , when the question of Secession was pending before the people of Georgia : " What right has the North assailed ? What justice has been demanded ? and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld ...
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... Rebellion , which broke forth with armed resistance to the Government , in ་ ་ The Great Rebellion of 1861 . 4th . The great Southern rebellion of 1861 , * the disasters of which are too fresh and pain- 3 SCRAPS FROM MY SCRAP - BOOK . 25.
... Rebellion , which broke forth with armed resistance to the Government , in ་ ་ The Great Rebellion of 1861 . 4th . The great Southern rebellion of 1861 , * the disasters of which are too fresh and pain- 3 SCRAPS FROM MY SCRAP - BOOK . 25.
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... Southern fears and prejudices and to " fire the Southern heart " to the pitch of armed resistance to what South- ern demagogues had educated the people to believe , was danger and destruction to their domestic happiness . Thus did ...
... Southern fears and prejudices and to " fire the Southern heart " to the pitch of armed resistance to what South- ern demagogues had educated the people to believe , was danger and destruction to their domestic happiness . Thus did ...
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... Southern support of Government ... The odious comparisons con- tinued ... Republican papers and the President's Message ... Section arrayed against Section . CLAMORS FOR A NORTHERN CONFEDERACY . To show that the work of dissolution ...
... Southern support of Government ... The odious comparisons con- tinued ... Republican papers and the President's Message ... Section arrayed against Section . CLAMORS FOR A NORTHERN CONFEDERACY . To show that the work of dissolution ...
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... Southern fellow citizens as friends and brethren , having one common in- terest in the promotion of the general welfare , to make them instruments in the hands of those who intended to employ them to operate the unholy work of ...
... Southern fellow citizens as friends and brethren , having one common in- terest in the promotion of the general welfare , to make them instruments in the hands of those who intended to employ them to operate the unholy work of ...
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Page 154 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page 149 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 149 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 73 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 161 - And if thou say in thine heart, " How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ? " when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 36 - President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 46 - The cession of that kind of property, for so it is misnamed, is a bagatelle which would not cost me a second thought, if, in that way, a general emancipation and expatriation could be effected ; and, gradually, and with due sacrifices, I think it might be. But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
Page 10 - He that is born in thy house and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised ; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Page 149 - 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 126 - Resolved, That a national executive be instituted, to consist of a single person; to be chosen by the national legislature...