Speech of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, of Ohio: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861H. Polkinhorn, 1861 - 23 páginas |
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... beginning of this crisis , and almost alone , I assumed against the employment of military force by the Federal Govern- ment to execute its laws and restore its authority within the States which might se- cede . Subsequent events have ...
... beginning of this crisis , and almost alone , I assumed against the employment of military force by the Federal Govern- ment to execute its laws and restore its authority within the States which might se- cede . Subsequent events have ...
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... beginning , as I have said , a fixed policy of strengthening the General Government , in every department , was inaugurated by the Federal party ; and this led to the bitter and vehement struggle , in the very first decade of the system ...
... beginning , as I have said , a fixed policy of strengthening the General Government , in every department , was inaugurated by the Federal party ; and this led to the bitter and vehement struggle , in the very first decade of the system ...
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... beginning of the Government , is still to be found here , and only here ; all but the bench and bar of forty years ago - the Marshalls and the Storys , the Harpers , the Pinckneys , the Wirts , and the Websters , of an age gone by ...
... beginning of the Government , is still to be found here , and only here ; all but the bench and bar of forty years ago - the Marshalls and the Storys , the Harpers , the Pinckneys , the Wirts , and the Websters , of an age gone by ...
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... beginning , the " taverns " . for that was the name given them sixty years ago - all clustered around this Capitol , I observe that now the greatest , most flourishing , and best patronized " hotel " has established itself within bow ...
... beginning , the " taverns " . for that was the name given them sixty years ago - all clustered around this Capitol , I observe that now the greatest , most flourishing , and best patronized " hotel " has established itself within bow ...
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... beginning , and every year more and more , it has been the object of the highest and lowest , the purest and the most corrupt ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from the first , and have been changed and ...
... beginning , and every year more and more , it has been the object of the highest and lowest , the purest and the most corrupt ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from the first , and have been changed and ...
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Página 11 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Página 11 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Página 14 - ... does : by it the hand of man is raised against his neighbour, against his brother, and against his father; the servant betrays his master, and the whole scene ends in confusion and devastation.