National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval: Founded on Official and Other Authentic Documents, Volume 1Johnson, Fry, 1861 - United States Volume 1. Chapter i-xxix (618 pages) -- Volume 3. Chapter lxxx-cxv (642 pages). |
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... army public mind . There were dark intimations who achieved that Independence . I have that Mr. Lincoln would not be allowed to often inquired of myself , what great prin- proceed to Washington in safety , and as- ciple or idea it was ...
... army public mind . There were dark intimations who achieved that Independence . I have that Mr. Lincoln would not be allowed to often inquired of myself , what great prin- proceed to Washington in safety , and as- ciple or idea it was ...
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... Army on in the United States Service . A native the 20th of February , 1861 , two days of the State of Louisiana , of Canadian de- after the inauguration of Jefferson Davis scent , he had entered the Military Acad- as President of the ...
... Army on in the United States Service . A native the 20th of February , 1861 , two days of the State of Louisiana , of Canadian de- after the inauguration of Jefferson Davis scent , he had entered the Military Acad- as President of the ...
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... Report of Brigadier - General G. T. Beauregard to Brigadier - General Cooper , Adjutant - General C. S. A. , Headquarters Provisional Army , Charleston , S. C. , April 27 , 1861 . 11 fate . Mr. Pryor left Fort Sumter " a 14.
... Report of Brigadier - General G. T. Beauregard to Brigadier - General Cooper , Adjutant - General C. S. A. , Headquarters Provisional Army , Charleston , S. C. , April 27 , 1861 . 11 fate . Mr. Pryor left Fort Sumter " a 14.
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... army , riot in all the streets , and in all the towns and cities of the North make their march a triumphant one . Fifty thousand men to - day tread on his fallacy . ' " " One of the most enthusiastic speeches of the meeting was ...
... army , riot in all the streets , and in all the towns and cities of the North make their march a triumphant one . Fifty thousand men to - day tread on his fallacy . ' " " One of the most enthusiastic speeches of the meeting was ...
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... army who have been edu- cated by the Government , who have drawn their support from the Govern- ment for long years , who when called upon by their country to stand for the Constitution and for the right , have basely , ignominiously ...
... army who have been edu- cated by the Government , who have drawn their support from the Govern- ment for long years , who when called upon by their country to stand for the Constitution and for the right , have basely , ignominiously ...
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Page 126 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 23 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 23 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 123 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 34 - Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 87 - 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 4 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock...
Page 91 - Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 88 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up,
Page 84 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.