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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... CIVIL WAR shall be averted . Sir , I rejoice that the hard Anglo - Saxon sense and pious and humane impulses of the American people have rejected the specious disguise of words without wisdom which appealed to them to enforce the laws ...
... CIVIL WAR shall be averted . Sir , I rejoice that the hard Anglo - Saxon sense and pious and humane impulses of the American people have rejected the specious disguise of words without wisdom which appealed to them to enforce the laws ...
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... civil strife and fraternal carnage ; or of that martial array which already has changed this once peaceful capital into a beleagured city ? Fortunate men ! They died while the Constitution yet survived , while the Union survived , while ...
... civil strife and fraternal carnage ; or of that martial array which already has changed this once peaceful capital into a beleagured city ? Fortunate men ! They died while the Constitution yet survived , while the Union survived , while ...
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... civil law of every country among individuals , and by the law of nations , as between sovereign and foreign States , the power to aggress , along with the threat and the preparation to aggress , is a good cause why an individu or a ...
... civil law of every country among individuals , and by the law of nations , as between sovereign and foreign States , the power to aggress , along with the threat and the preparation to aggress , is a good cause why an individu or a ...
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... civil war ; and each time healed them by yielding promptly to the necessities which pressed upon them , giving up principles and measures to which they had every way for years been committed . They have learned wisdom from the obstinacy ...
... civil war ; and each time healed them by yielding promptly to the necessities which pressed upon them , giving up principles and measures to which they had every way for years been committed . They have learned wisdom from the obstinacy ...
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... civil commotion and discord , if not revolu- tion , were again threatened , and it became necessary to dissolve the Parliament , and for that purpose to secure the consent of a King adverse to the dissolution , the Lord Chancellor of ...
... civil commotion and discord , if not revolu- tion , were again threatened , and it became necessary to dissolve the Parliament , and for that purpose to secure the consent of a King adverse to the dissolution , the Lord Chancellor of ...
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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.