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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... geographical and climatic divisions exist , or where several contiguous States are in the same interest , and sometimes where they are similar in institutions or modes of thought , or in habits and customs , of sectional jealousies and ...
... geographical and climatic divisions exist , or where several contiguous States are in the same interest , and sometimes where they are similar in institutions or modes of thought , or in habits and customs , of sectional jealousies and ...
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... geographical position , and accordingly guarded jealously in that direction , giving for this purpose , as I have said , the power of a self - protecting veto in the Senate to the small States , by means of their equal suffrage in that ...
... geographical position , and accordingly guarded jealously in that direction , giving for this purpose , as I have said , the power of a self - protecting veto in the Senate to the small States , by means of their equal suffrage in that ...
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... Geographical position and identity of interests bound us together ; and till this sectional question of slavery ... geographical line , coinciding with a marked principle , moral and political , " - Sir , it is this very coincidence of ...
... Geographical position and identity of interests bound us together ; and till this sectional question of slavery ... geographical line , coinciding with a marked principle , moral and political , " - Sir , it is this very coincidence of ...
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... geographical line which divided the two sections , and appealing so strongly to northern sentiments and prejudices , and against which it was impossible for any man or any party long to contend , should be revived ? Unhappily , too ...
... geographical line which divided the two sections , and appealing so strongly to northern sentiments and prejudices , and against which it was impossible for any man or any party long to contend , should be revived ? Unhappily , too ...
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... geographical line , coinciding with the marked principle , moral and political , " of slavery , which so startled the prophetic ear of Jefferson , and which he foretold , forty years ago , every irritation would mark deeper and deeper ...
... geographical line , coinciding with the marked principle , moral and political , " of slavery , which so startled the prophetic ear of Jefferson , and which he foretold , forty years ago , every irritation would mark deeper and deeper ...
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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.