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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... seceding from the East ; for even then a division of the Union , North and South , or by slave lines , in the Union or out of it , seems scarcely to have been contemplated . The letter of Mr. Jefferson upon this subject , dated in 1803 ...
... seceding from the East ; for even then a division of the Union , North and South , or by slave lines , in the Union or out of it , seems scarcely to have been contemplated . The letter of Mr. Jefferson upon this subject , dated in 1803 ...
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... secede . Seven States have seceded ; they now refuse any longer to recognize the authority of this Government , and already have entered into a new confederacy and set up a provisional government of their own . In three months their ...
... secede . Seven States have seceded ; they now refuse any longer to recognize the authority of this Government , and already have entered into a new confederacy and set up a provisional government of their own . In three months their ...
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... secede and withdraw itself from your Government , and set up a separate confederacy of its own , you do not allow to it the power of self - protection within the Union . If , Representatives , you are sincere in your protestations that ...
... secede and withdraw itself from your Government , and set up a separate confederacy of its own , you do not allow to it the power of self - protection within the Union . If , Representatives , you are sincere in your protestations that ...
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... seceded , and therefore to withhold the other slave States from ultimate secession ; for surely no man fit to be a statesman can fail to foresee that unless the cotton States can be returned to the Union , the border States must and ...
... seceded , and therefore to withhold the other slave States from ultimate secession ; for surely no man fit to be a statesman can fail to foresee that unless the cotton States can be returned to the Union , the border States must and ...
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... seceded , or to hold back the States which are threatening to secede , without providing some safeguard against the renewal of this most simple and disastrous experiment ? Can foreign nations have any confidence here- after in the ...
... seceded , or to hold back the States which are threatening to secede , without providing some safeguard against the renewal of this most simple and disastrous experiment ? Can foreign nations have any confidence here- after in the ...
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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.