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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... question which to - day I propose to discuss : - HOW SHALL THE UNION OF THESE STATES BE RESTORED AND PRESERVED ? Sir , it is with becoming modesty and with something of awe , that I approach the discussion of a question which the ablest ...
... question which to - day I propose to discuss : - HOW SHALL THE UNION OF THESE STATES BE RESTORED AND PRESERVED ? Sir , it is with becoming modesty and with something of awe , that I approach the discussion of a question which the ablest ...
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... question of slavery obliterated old party divisions , and obscured and hid over , and covered up for a time— if , indeed , it has not removed utterly - some , at least , of the ancient landmarks of the Democratic party . And yet , in ...
... question of slavery obliterated old party divisions , and obscured and hid over , and covered up for a time— if , indeed , it has not removed utterly - some , at least , of the ancient landmarks of the Democratic party . And yet , in ...
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... questions of finance or of political economy . Upon the subjects of a perma- nent public debt , a national bank , the public deposits , a protective tariff , internal improvements , the disposition of the public lands , and other questions ...
... questions of finance or of political economy . Upon the subjects of a perma- nent public debt , a national bank , the public deposits , a protective tariff , internal improvements , the disposition of the public lands , and other questions ...
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... question of slavery arose , the South and the new States of the West were always together ; and the latter , in the beginning at least , always Democratic . Sir , there was not a triumph of the Democratic party in half a century which ...
... question of slavery arose , the South and the new States of the West were always together ; and the latter , in the beginning at least , always Democratic . Sir , there was not a triumph of the Democratic party in half a century which ...
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... questions of political economy having died out , and the balance of power between the North and the South being now lost , and ... question of slavery , in a form every way the most favorable to the agitators . The Wilmot proviso , or ...
... questions of political economy having died out , and the balance of power between the North and the South being now lost , and ... question of slavery , in a form every way the most favorable to the agitators . The Wilmot proviso , 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.