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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... territorial aggrandizement . In despotisms , it is shown in intrigues , assassinations , and revolts . In constitutional monarchies and in aristocracies , it exhibits itself in contests among the different orders of society and the ...
... territorial aggrandizement . In despotisms , it is shown in intrigues , assassinations , and revolts . In constitutional monarchies and in aristocracies , it exhibits itself in contests among the different orders of society and the ...
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... territorial aggrandizement would , in sixty years , have given us new territories and States equal in extent to the ... territory which has given strength , though not birth , to that sectionalism which already has broken in pieces this ...
... territorial aggrandizement would , in sixty years , have given us new territories and States equal in extent to the ... territory which has given strength , though not birth , to that sectionalism which already has broken in pieces this ...
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... territory ; every increase of wealth , population , or resources of any kind ; all moral , social , intellectual , or inventive de- velopment the press , the telegraph , the railroad , and the application of steam in every form ...
... territory ; every increase of wealth , population , or resources of any kind ; all moral , social , intellectual , or inventive de- velopment the press , the telegraph , the railroad , and the application of steam in every form ...
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... Territories , and a long train of usurpations and abuses all tend-、 ing - legitimate powers and illegitimate assumptions of power alike — to aggrandize the central Government , and to make its possession and control the highest object ...
... Territories , and a long train of usurpations and abuses all tend-、 ing - legitimate powers and illegitimate assumptions of power alike — to aggrandize the central Government , and to make its possession and control the highest object ...
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... territory from Mexico , not foreseen or provided for by the Missouri compromise , opened wide the door for this very question of slavery , in a form every way the most favorable to the agitators . The Wilmot proviso , or congressional ...
... territory from Mexico , not foreseen or provided for by the Missouri compromise , opened wide the door for this very question of slavery , in a form every way the most favorable to the agitators . The Wilmot proviso , or congressional ...
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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.