 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 796 pages
...feature of distinction between the Government of the Confederate States and that of the United States : " The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our Í28 129 peculiar institutions — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...Constitution has put at rest, forever, all agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. The foundations of our new government are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the... | |
 | John Young Foster - New Jersey - 1868 - 904 pages
...Constitntion has pnt at rest forever all the agitating qnestions relating to our peculiar institntion — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of eivilization. This was the immediate canse of the late rupture and present revolntion. Jefferson in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 796 pages
...of distinction between the Government of the Confederate States and that of the United States : 128 peculiar institutions — African slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro hoar form of civilization. This was the immediate caase of the late rupture and present revolution.... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 404 pages
...Stephens, " has put at rest for ever all agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery, as it exists among us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization . . . Its foundations (the new government) are laid ; its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 698 pages
...Savannah, in his own State, he made a speech, from which the following extract is here inserted : " The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the...our form of civilization. " This was the immediate cause'of the late rupture and present revolidion. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...Savannah, in his own State, he made a speech, from which the following extract is here inserted: " The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the...Slavery as it exists among us — the proper status of tlie negro in our form of civilization. " This loos the immediate cause of the late rupture and present... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Colonies - 1873 - 452 pages
...constitution has put at rest for ever all agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists among us— the proper...cause of the late rupture and present revolution." (Mr. AH Stephens, Vicc-President of the Southern Confederation.) gomery Convention, in drawing up the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 562 pages
...but they cannot be omitted in a complete statement of the case. " The new Constitution" he said, " has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African Slavery, as it exists Among us," which he proceeds to declare " was the immediate... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...but they cannot be omitted in a complete statement of the case. " The new Constitution" he said, " has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African Slavery, as it exists among us," which he proceeds to declare "was the immediate... | |
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But, not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least: the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African... 
