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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... present incumbents about the executive offices and elsewhere . Sir , I should be pleased , when he next addresses the House , to have his fine powers of wit and cloquence tested by a description of the flight of the incoming locusts ...
... present incumbents about the executive offices and elsewhere . Sir , I should be pleased , when he next addresses the House , to have his fine powers of wit and cloquence tested by a description of the flight of the incoming locusts ...
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... present evil , it would have caused , and ought to have caused , none of the disasters which have already followed . But the DREAD SECRET once disclosed , that the immense powers and revenues and honors and spoils , of this great and ...
... present evil , it would have caused , and ought to have caused , none of the disasters which have already followed . But the DREAD SECRET once disclosed , that the immense powers and revenues and honors and spoils , of this great and ...
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... present dismember- ment of the United States , ought not every remedy proposed to reach at once the very seat of the disease ? And why , sir , may not the malady be healed ? Why cannot this controversy be adjusted ? Has , indeed , the ...
... present dismember- ment of the United States , ought not every remedy proposed to reach at once the very seat of the disease ? And why , sir , may not the malady be healed ? Why cannot this controversy be adjusted ? Has , indeed , the ...
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... present troubles , and to restore the Union of these States . Sir , I am ready and willing and anxious to try all things and to do all things " which may become a man , to secure that great object which is near- est to my heart . 17 But ...
... present troubles , and to restore the Union of these States . Sir , I am ready and willing and anxious to try all things and to do all things " which may become a man , to secure that great object which is near- est to my heart . 17 But ...
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... present troubles , I have ven- tured with great deference to submit the propositions which are upon the table of the House . While not inconsistent with any of the other pending plans of adjustment , they are , in my judgment , and ...
... present troubles , I have ven- tured with great deference to submit the propositions which are upon the table of the House . While not inconsistent with any of the other pending plans of adjustment , they are , in my judgment , and ...
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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.