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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... mean to say , she has no cause whatever to excuse her rebellion against the Union . Yet she revolted ; we may say , gave to the revolution a countenance and support , without which it would have speedily sunk into a futile enterprise ...
... mean to say , she has no cause whatever to excuse her rebellion against the Union . Yet she revolted ; we may say , gave to the revolution a countenance and support , without which it would have speedily sunk into a futile enterprise ...
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... means all , - of that heritage of woes , now pressing , and long to be continued , every one of which is justly chargeable to this rebellion . IT AIMED TO USURP THE GOVERNMENT . 8. Another characteristic of the rebellion is seen in what ...
... means all , - of that heritage of woes , now pressing , and long to be continued , every one of which is justly chargeable to this rebellion . IT AIMED TO USURP THE GOVERNMENT . 8. Another characteristic of the rebellion is seen in what ...
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... means of religious instruction ? These and such questions we should endeavor to answer with the utmost solemnity and truth . We have come before the Lord as penitents . The people whom we hold in bondage are the occasion of all our ...
... means of religious instruction ? These and such questions we should endeavor to answer with the utmost solemnity and truth . We have come before the Lord as penitents . The people whom we hold in bondage are the occasion of all our ...
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... scope for its natural devel- opment and extension , " has not had his eyes open to cur- rent and notorious events . But this is by no means all . To make this " extension " of slavery over so vast a region either practicable or.
... scope for its natural devel- opment and extension , " has not had his eyes open to cur- rent and notorious events . But this is by no means all . To make this " extension " of slavery over so vast a region either practicable or.
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... mean time , hear Dr. Thornwell , in the same article before referred to : It has also been asserted , as a ground of ... means of fulfilling their magnificent visions of wealth , the African slave - trade . The agitation of this subject ...
... mean time , hear Dr. Thornwell , in the same article before referred to : It has also been asserted , as a ground of ... means of fulfilling their magnificent visions of wealth , the African slave - trade . The agitation of this subject ...
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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