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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... consent , be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate . Lest the legislative department inight encroach upon the executive , they gave to the President the self - protecting power of a qualified veto , and in turn made the President ...
... consent , be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate . Lest the legislative department inight encroach upon the executive , they gave to the President the self - protecting power of a qualified veto , and in turn made the President ...
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... consent of a King adverse to the dissolution , the Lord Chancellor of England , one of the most extraordinary men of the age , by perhaps the boldest and most hazardous experiment ever tried upon royalty , surprised the King into consent ...
... consent of a King adverse to the dissolution , the Lord Chancellor of England , one of the most extraordinary men of the age , by perhaps the boldest and most hazardous experiment ever tried upon royalty , surprised the King into consent ...
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... consent , as hith- erto , which , in my deliberate judgment and deepest conviction , it concerns the peace and stability of the Union should be forever hereafter ignored . Till then there cannot be , and will not be , perfect union and ...
... consent , as hith- erto , which , in my deliberate judgment and deepest conviction , it concerns the peace and stability of the Union should be forever hereafter ignored . Till then there cannot be , and will not be , perfect union and ...
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... consent of Congress , shall be admitted into the Union , with any constitution , republican in form , which the people of such States may ordain . And now , gentlemen of the South , why cannot you accept it ? Government has never yet ...
... consent of Congress , shall be admitted into the Union , with any constitution , republican in form , which the people of such States may ordain . And now , gentlemen of the South , why cannot you accept it ? Government has never yet ...
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... consent of the Legislatures of all the States of the section to which the State proposing to secede may belong . This is obviously a most reasonable restraint ; and yet , of its sufficiency no man can doubt , when he remembers that , in ...
... consent of the Legislatures of all the States of the section to which the State proposing to secede may belong . This is obviously a most reasonable restraint ; and yet , of its sufficiency no man can doubt , when he remembers that , in ...
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ambition amendment annexed and admitted anti-slavery believe cause central Government centralizing tendencies certainly choice of President civil coinciding compromise confederacy Congress consent Constitution Crittenden danger demand Democratic party disbursement dissolution division doctrine Duke of Wellington election electoral colleges electors equal established evil executive Federal Government Federal party formed or erected gentleman from Massachusetts geographical line honors and emoluments House of Lords House of Representatives least Legislature Lord Chancellor marked principle mean to aggress ment mischief Missouri compromise moral and political non-slaveholding section North oppression passions patriotism patronage peace plan of adjustment power and influence power to aggress propose propositions protection purpose question of slavery Republic Republican party restore the Union revenues revolution right of choice secede sectional majority secure self-protecting Senate slave South South Carolina statesmanship statesmen temptation Tennessee territory Thirteen Colonies tion to-day United veto vote Whig party
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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.