Proceedings and Speeches at a Public Meeting of the Friends of the Union, in the City of Baltimore, Held at the Maryland Institute, on Thursday Evening, January 10, 1861J.D. Toy, 1861 - 56 pages |
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... soon to be inhabited by a hundred millions of brave sons , this our country , if she prove true to our glorious Union , is destined to be the happiest , the greatest and the freest nation that by its great deeds has ever fired the ...
... soon to be inhabited by a hundred millions of brave sons , this our country , if she prove true to our glorious Union , is destined to be the happiest , the greatest and the freest nation that by its great deeds has ever fired the ...
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... soon as it shall be dissolved . Her local position , the conservative character of her people , their long established and well known attach- ment to the Constitution and the Union demand that she should well consider the step that is ...
... soon as it shall be dissolved . Her local position , the conservative character of her people , their long established and well known attach- ment to the Constitution and the Union demand that she should well consider the step that is ...
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... soon found , however , that that bond was not to be relied upon , and the articles of confederation , agreed upon by Congress in November , 1777 , and ratified by every State in March , 1780 , took its place . The object of these was to ...
... soon found , however , that that bond was not to be relied upon , and the articles of confederation , agreed upon by Congress in November , 1777 , and ratified by every State in March , 1780 , took its place . The object of these was to ...
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... soon see the estimate which the civilized world will place upon their conduct , and shrink with remorse from its sentence . But the Constitution is not thus fatally impotent . It is true that it contains no power to declare war against ...
... soon see the estimate which the civilized world will place upon their conduct , and shrink with remorse from its sentence . But the Constitution is not thus fatally impotent . It is true that it contains no power to declare war against ...
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... soon realize the fact that in the estimation of the world they were nothing - too feeble to resist aggres- sion , too limited , though left undisturbed , to attain even a partial prosperity . This is eminently true of South Carolina ...
... soon realize the fact that in the estimation of the world they were nothing - too feeble to resist aggres- sion , too limited , though left undisturbed , to attain even a partial prosperity . This is eminently true of South Carolina ...
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Page 7 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 20 - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 7 - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Page 40 - Union which is every day felt among us with so much joy and gratitude. What is to become of the army? What is to become of the navy? What is to become of the public lands? How is each of the thirty States to defend itself...
Page 42 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 20 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 43 - It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country.
Page 7 - ... palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 41 - Sir, I am ashamed to pursue this line of remark. I dislike it, I have an utter disgust for it. I would rather hear of natural blasts and mildews, war, pestilence, and famine, than to hear gentlemen talk of secession.
Page 41 - In discussing this question, the counsel for the state of Maryland have deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the constitution, to consider that instrument not as emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent states.