Secession; a Folly and a CrimeKing & Baird, printers, 1861 - 29 páginas |
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Secession: A Folly and a Crime (Classic Reprint) Joseph Reed Ingersoll Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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607 SANSOM STREET Aaron Burr acts alleged armed assaults asserting authority bayonets believed blockade blood Buchanan Cairo candidate cause character civil claim cold steel command condemn Confederate Congress Constitution declared defence desire encroachment enemy evil evil hour execution exer exists exposure expressed face of cold farther fatal flag flagrant force Fort Sumter forts gallant garrison habeas corpus honor hostility human individual invasion John Brown justice KING & BAIRD knows his duty less loss Louisiana ment military murder nations North Northern numbers object officers party perhaps political present President pretext pride principle proclamation purposes question rebel reproach resorted savage scarcely seceding seces SECESSION RESISTED Secretary of War Senate sentiment side sion slavery South South Carolina Southern sovereign capacity speeches success Sumter supposed suspend thing thought thousand tions traitors treason Union United utter wanting wives and daughters wrong Yankee
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Página 16 - I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note that, while in this the Government's hour of trial large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored with the offices have resigned and proved false to the hand which had pampered them, not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag.
Página 19 - Abraham Lincoln, regardless of all moral, legal, and constitutional restraints, has thrown his abolition hosts among you, who are murdering and imprisoning your citizens, confiscating and destroying your property, and committing other acts of violence and outrage too shocking and revolting to humanity to be enumerated. All rules of civilized warfare are abandoned, and they proclaim by their acts, if not on their banners, that their warcry is "Beauty and booty.
Página 8 - Institutions cannot fail to rejoice that, by this timely precaution they have possibly escaped the deep dishonor which they must have suffered had the Capital, like the Forts and Arsenals of the South, fallen into the hands of...
Página 27 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Página 7 - ... portion of the American people. Its history is a history of surprises, and treacheries, and ruthless spoliations. The forts of the United States have been captured and garrisoned, and hostile flags unfurled upon their ramparts. Its arsenals have been seized, and the vast amount of public arms they contained appropriated to the use of the captors, while more than half a million of dollars, found in the mint at New Orleans, has been unscrupulously applied to replenish the coffers of Louisiana.
Página 33 - It was then and there resolved in effect to assume to themselves the political power of the South, and, to control all political and military operations for the present, they telegraphed to complete the plan of seizing forts...
Página 7 - for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals," &C., and over these the authority "to exercise exclusive legislation," has been expressly granted by the Constitution to Congress. It is not believed that any attempt will be made to expel the United States from this property by force; but if in this I should prove to be mistaken, the officer in command of the forts has received orders to act strictly on the defensive. In such a contingency the responsibility for consequences would rightfully rest...
Página 31 - Let us trust that the State legislatures will repeal their unconstitutional and obnoxious enactments. Unless this shall be done without unnecessary delay, it is impossible for any human power to save the Union.
Página 13 - Secession flag on the river bank, they were pointed to another flag of the same sort, which was flying gloriously and defiantly about two squares distant (and which their guns did not cover,) and defied, yea, double big, black dog dared (as we used to say at school,) to take that flag down. The cowardly pups, the sheep-dogs, the sneaking skunks dare not do so, because those twelve pieces of artillery were not bearing upon it. And these are the people who are sent by Lincoln to
Página 12 - Russell describes as a fine-looking gentleman, with a clear liquid blue eye, very agreeable manner, and marked with good taste. It is here inserted in a note at foot, as I am unwilling to give it a place in my text.* * " There is a man now vegetating at Cairo, by name Prentiss, who is in command of the forces at that point. His qualifications for the command of such a squad of villians and cutthroats are : — he is a miserable hound, a dirty dog, a sociable fellow, a treacherous villain, a notorious...