Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume 9Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1927 |
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... tion that he was master in his cabinet . The submission of Lincoln to Seward and Stanton is one of the facts of history , which all the soft soap employed by his admirers cannot wash away . How im- possible it would have been for the ...
... tion that he was master in his cabinet . The submission of Lincoln to Seward and Stanton is one of the facts of history , which all the soft soap employed by his admirers cannot wash away . How im- possible it would have been for the ...
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... tion of slavery . If the term rebel was ever applicable to any one , it was so to these Emigrant Societies and their mercenary cut- throats in Kansas in their resistance to the Federal Courts and the Federal Executive . ( See Letters of ...
... tion of slavery . If the term rebel was ever applicable to any one , it was so to these Emigrant Societies and their mercenary cut- throats in Kansas in their resistance to the Federal Courts and the Federal Executive . ( See Letters of ...
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... tion of Independence applied to the negro but denied that they applied to the free white inhabitants of the States in whose favor they were originally promulgated . He failed to discern that the independence of the slave and the ...
... tion of Independence applied to the negro but denied that they applied to the free white inhabitants of the States in whose favor they were originally promulgated . He failed to discern that the independence of the slave and the ...
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... tion . In his Temperance address he made some remarks that apply equally to the reaction of the people of the South to the Abolition agitations . Of the temperance reformers he said " Between these and the mass of mankind there is a ...
... tion . In his Temperance address he made some remarks that apply equally to the reaction of the people of the South to the Abolition agitations . Of the temperance reformers he said " Between these and the mass of mankind there is a ...
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... tion has complete power over its political institutions is no more to imply that they will fly into anarchy than to admit that men could , if they so willed , stop eating to imply that they will do so and starve to death . The ...
... tion has complete power over its political institutions is no more to imply that they will fly into anarchy than to admit that men could , if they so willed , stop eating to imply that they will do so and starve to death . The ...
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Page 97 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 21 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Page 19 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 179 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Page 17 - When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism.
Page 185 - ... cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore Heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.
Page 208 - Neville, one of the executors therein named, who made oath according to law, certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form...
Page 28 - The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this they can only do so against law and by revolution. The Union, and not themselves separately, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase the Union gave each of them whatever of independence and liberty it has.
Page 28 - I understand that the ship is made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo; and so long as the ship is safe with the cargo, it shall not be abandoned. This Union shall never be abandoned, unless the possibility of its existence shall cease to exist, without the necessity of throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
Page 185 - Correspondence, that they communicate with their several corresponding committees, on the expediency of appointing deputies from the several colonies of British America, to meet in general congress, at such place, annually, as shall be thought most convenient ; there to deliberate on those general measures which the united interests of America may from time to time require.