The civil war and our own timesMacmillan, 1900 |
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... force . It was also broadly rumored that unofficial negotiations had already begun toward securing British aid in breaking up the Union . The War of 1812 furnished another occasion for a serious 34 SIDE LIGHTS ON AMERICAN HISTORY.
... force . It was also broadly rumored that unofficial negotiations had already begun toward securing British aid in breaking up the Union . The War of 1812 furnished another occasion for a serious 34 SIDE LIGHTS ON AMERICAN HISTORY.
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... British public was shocked to indignation at the boldness of the act ; when , a little later , the British Government demanded the release of the two Confederate prisoners and gave every indication of its readiness to mobilize armies ...
... British public was shocked to indignation at the boldness of the act ; when , a little later , the British Government demanded the release of the two Confederate prisoners and gave every indication of its readiness to mobilize armies ...
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... British demand and releasing the prisoners . Again , when the President held under ad- visement the Emancipation Proclamation , when many urged him to issue it , and , for the best of reasons , as above noted , he hesitated , he at ...
... British demand and releasing the prisoners . Again , when the President held under ad- visement the Emancipation Proclamation , when many urged him to issue it , and , for the best of reasons , as above noted , he hesitated , he at ...
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... British yoke , and they little realized that to secure a substantial government at home and a national standing in the eyes of the world would require a far longer , and scarcely less fierce , struggle than the one through which they ...
... British yoke , and they little realized that to secure a substantial government at home and a national standing in the eyes of the world would require a far longer , and scarcely less fierce , struggle than the one through which they ...
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... the forms of law , was acquitted . The proceedings attracted world- wide attention . The latter years of the preceding century had witnessed the impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings by the British House of Commons . The 183.
... the forms of law , was acquitted . The proceedings attracted world- wide attention . The latter years of the preceding century had witnessed the impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings by the British House of Commons . The 183.
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Page 45 - ... the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 159 - ... unprecedented is the whole case that no exclusive and inflexible plan can safely be prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be inflexible. In the present situation...
Page 294 - The contempt of that largeminded gentleman is so wilting; his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House, that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity for me to venture upon a controversy with him.
Page 34 - Union ; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 26 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Page 362 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 197 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Page 238 - ... in the port of Liverpool, and its equipment and armament in the vicinity of Terceira through the agency of the vessels called the Agrippina and the Bahama, dispatched from Great Britain to that end, that the British government failed to use due diligence in the performance of its neutral obligations; and especially that it omitted, notwithstanding the warnings and official representations made by the diplomatic agents of the United States during the construction of the said number "290...
Page 34 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the Mates which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably, if they can; violently, if they must.