VII. Civil war and reconstruction. VIII. Free trade and protection. IX. Finance and civil service reformAlexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn Putnam's, 1897 |
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... existence of war with the United States . The two powers were thus locked in a struggle for life or death , the Confederate States fight- ing for existence and recognition , the United States for the maintenance of recognized boundaries ...
... existence of war with the United States . The two powers were thus locked in a struggle for life or death , the Confederate States fight- ing for existence and recognition , the United States for the maintenance of recognized boundaries ...
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... existence of the new State . Such inconsistencies were the natural results of the changes forced upon the Federal policy by the events of the war , as it grew wider and more desperate . The first of these changes was the inevitable ...
... existence of the new State . Such inconsistencies were the natural results of the changes forced upon the Federal policy by the events of the war , as it grew wider and more desperate . The first of these changes was the inevitable ...
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... existence ? Will you , while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from , -will you risk the omission of so fearful a mistake ? All profess to be content in the Union , if all constitutional rights can ...
... existence ? Will you , while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from , -will you risk the omission of so fearful a mistake ? All profess to be content in the Union , if all constitutional rights can ...
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... existence which Congress can recognize Our success will be the overthrow of all sem . blance of government in the rebel States . The Government of the United States is then in fact the only government existing in those States , and it ...
... existence which Congress can recognize Our success will be the overthrow of all sem . blance of government in the rebel States . The Government of the United States is then in fact the only government existing in those States , and it ...
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... existence , half civil and half military , neither a temporary government by law of Congress nor a State government , some- thing as unknown to the Constitution as the rebel government that refuses to recognize it . " The only ...
... existence , half civil and half military , neither a temporary government by law of Congress nor a State government , some- thing as unknown to the Constitution as the rebel government that refuses to recognize it . " The only ...
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Page 31 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 17 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 127 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 126 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 126 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address...
Page 127 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces. But let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. * Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by...
Page 128 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Page 27 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 127 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 18 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in anywise endangered by the now incoming administration.