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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... believe , in the North , and es- pecially in the West , they are resolved that , whatever else of calamity may befall us , that horrible scourge of CIVIL WAR shall be averted . Sir , I rejoice that the hard Anglo - Saxon sense and pious ...
... believe , in the North , and es- pecially in the West , they are resolved that , whatever else of calamity may befall us , that horrible scourge of CIVIL WAR shall be averted . Sir , I rejoice that the hard Anglo - Saxon sense and pious ...
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... believe they will restore and preserve it . And to - day they demand of us , their embassadors and representatives , to tell them how this great work is to be accomplished . Sir , it has well been said that it is not to be done by ...
... believe they will restore and preserve it . And to - day they demand of us , their embassadors and representatives , to tell them how this great work is to be accomplished . Sir , it has well been said that it is not to be done by ...
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... believe , as the gentleman from Tennessee [ Mr. ETHERIDGE ] would seem to have me believe , that for more than half a century the South has had all that she ever asked , and more than she ever deserved ; and that now , at last , a few ...
... believe , as the gentleman from Tennessee [ Mr. ETHERIDGE ] would seem to have me believe , that for more than half a century the South has had all that she ever asked , and more than she ever deserved ; and that now , at last , a few ...
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... believe , of the Democratic party of the free States . That , sir , was the fatal mistake of the North ; and in tribulation and anguish will she and the other sections of the Union , and our posterity , too , for ages , it may be , weep ...
... believe , of the Democratic party of the free States . That , sir , was the fatal mistake of the North ; and in tribulation and anguish will she and the other sections of the Union , and our posterity , too , for ages , it may be , weep ...
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... believe it . Never was there a political crisis for which wise , courageous , and disinterested statesmen could more speedily devise a remedy . British statesmen would have adjusted it in a few weeks . Twice certainly , if not three ...
... believe it . Never was there a political crisis for which wise , courageous , and disinterested statesmen could more speedily devise a remedy . British statesmen would have adjusted it in a few weeks . Twice certainly , if not three ...
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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.