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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... whole army of speculators , jobbers , contractors , and claimants , to propitiate him as well as Senators and Representatives . He calls the Congress together on extraordinary occasions , and adjourns them in case of disagree- ment . He ...
... whole army of speculators , jobbers , contractors , and claimants , to propitiate him as well as Senators and Representatives . He calls the Congress together on extraordinary occasions , and adjourns them in case of disagree- ment . He ...
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... whole , if indeed ever laid out at all , might have become a great national park . But behold the strange perversity of man ! The city has all gone to the westward . The rear of the Capitol has now become its front . Pennsylvania Avenue ...
... whole , if indeed ever laid out at all , might have become a great national park . But behold the strange perversity of man ! The city has all gone to the westward . The rear of the Capitol has now become its front . Pennsylvania Avenue ...
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... whole earth ; and accordingly , from the beginning , and every year more and more , it has been the object of the highest and lowest , the purest and the most corrupt ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from ...
... whole earth ; and accordingly , from the beginning , and every year more and more , it has been the object of the highest and lowest , the purest and the most corrupt ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from ...
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... whole South , sometimes a majority in the whole South , and always in some of the States of the South , who belonged to the several parties which , at different times , con- tended with the Democracy for the possession and control of ...
... whole South , sometimes a majority in the whole South , and always in some of the States of the South , who belonged to the several parties which , at different times , con- tended with the Democracy for the possession and control of ...
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... whole territory thus acquired , as well south of 36 ° 30 ' as north of that lattitude . The proposition , upon the other hand , to extend the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific , was rejected by the votes of almost the entire Whig ...
... whole territory thus acquired , as well south of 36 ° 30 ' as north of that lattitude . The proposition , upon the other hand , to extend the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific , was rejected by the votes of almost the entire Whig ...
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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.