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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... honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can bind it . In a Federal Republic all these evils are found in their amplest proportions , and take the form also of rivalries between the ...
... honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can bind it . In a Federal Republic all these evils are found in their amplest proportions , and take the form also of rivalries between the ...
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... honors and emoluments , the immense , and continually increasing , power and patronage of the Federal Government ... honor and glory abroad - all , all has inured to the aggrandizement of this central Government . Part of this ...
... honors and emoluments , the immense , and continually increasing , power and patronage of the Federal Government ... honor and glory abroad - all , all has inured to the aggrandizement of this central Government . Part of this ...
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... honors , its great emoluments , its life tenure , its faith in precedents , and its settled forms and ancient practice , untouched by codes and unshaken by crude and reckless and hasty legislation . Here , in this venerable forum ...
... honors , its great emoluments , its life tenure , its faith in precedents , and its settled forms and ancient practice , untouched by codes and unshaken by crude and reckless and hasty legislation . Here , in this venerable forum ...
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... honor . Sir , to pass by the utter and extraordinary perversion of the original pur- pose of the Constitution in the choice of electors for the President - a perversion the result of caucuses , national conventions , and other party ...
... honor . Sir , to pass by the utter and extraordinary perversion of the original pur- pose of the Constitution in the choice of electors for the President - a perversion the result of caucuses , national conventions , and other party ...
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... honors and emoluments ; and every year adds strength to them . Against Y the centralizing tendencies and influences of such a Government , the States sepa- rately cannot contend . Neither ambition nor avarice , the love of honor , or ...
... honors and emoluments ; and every year adds strength to them . Against Y the centralizing tendencies and influences of such a Government , the States sepa- rately cannot contend . Neither ambition nor avarice , the love of honor , or ...
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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.