The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volumen1O.D. Case, 1864 - 37 páginas "A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union "--T.p. |
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... give to the patient , careful , critical study of innumerable documents and letters , an amount of time and thought whieh I could not have commanded , unless I had been able to de- vote years , instead of months only , to the ...
... give to the patient , careful , critical study of innumerable documents and letters , an amount of time and thought whieh I could not have commanded , unless I had been able to de- vote years , instead of months only , to the ...
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... give . So many battles , sieges , marches , campaigns , etc. , remain to be narrated , that — ample as this work would seem to be , and capacious as are its pages - a naked record of the remaining events of the war , especially should ...
... give . So many battles , sieges , marches , campaigns , etc. , remain to be narrated , that — ample as this work would seem to be , and capacious as are its pages - a naked record of the remaining events of the war , especially should ...
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... give a page to this occurrence , and ignore that , which was of at least equal consequence ? Why praise the achievement of A , yet pass over that of B , which was equally meritorious and important ? ' But , especially in dealing with ...
... give a page to this occurrence , and ignore that , which was of at least equal consequence ? Why praise the achievement of A , yet pass over that of B , which was equally meritorious and important ? ' But , especially in dealing with ...
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... enactments in the Colonies could give it any validity . To avoid overturn- ing Slavery in the Colonies , it was absolutely necessary to uphold it in England . " — Ibid . , p . 426 . | GEORGIA A FREE COLONY . 31 ness and to.
... enactments in the Colonies could give it any validity . To avoid overturn- ing Slavery in the Colonies , it was absolutely necessary to uphold it in England . " — Ibid . , p . 426 . | GEORGIA A FREE COLONY . 31 ness and to.
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... give them proper en- couragement to labor , or take arms in the defense of the American cause , as they shall choose . This would at once be doing them some degree of justice , and defeating our enemies in the scheme that they are ...
... give them proper en- couragement to labor , or take arms in the defense of the American cause , as they shall choose . This would at once be doing them some degree of justice , and defeating our enemies in the scheme that they are ...
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Página 84 - Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force : that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : that the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...
Página 35 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 82 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 34 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 422 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 425 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 424 - For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence,, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Página 422 - To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up", their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one.
Página 301 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Página 35 - ... that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.