The civil war and our own timesMacmillan, 1900 |
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... position of Mr. Buchanan , and were warmly welcomed within the Republican fold . The signs of the times , indeed , seemed 1 The Lecompton Constitution was framed by the proslavery party at Lecompton , Kansas , in September , 1857. This ...
... position of Mr. Buchanan , and were warmly welcomed within the Republican fold . The signs of the times , indeed , seemed 1 The Lecompton Constitution was framed by the proslavery party at Lecompton , Kansas , in September , 1857. This ...
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... position of the slave States was eloquently set forth by Mr. Yancey of Alabama , the most famous orator of the South . In vain did the northern delegates declare that the party could not carry a northern State , if they yielded to the ...
... position of the slave States was eloquently set forth by Mr. Yancey of Alabama , the most famous orator of the South . In vain did the northern delegates declare that the party could not carry a northern State , if they yielded to the ...
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... positions adapted from Greeley : The Republicans took the ground that slavery is a political and moral evil ; that it can exist only where protected by law ; that there is no law for it in the Territories , nor is there any power to ...
... positions adapted from Greeley : The Republicans took the ground that slavery is a political and moral evil ; that it can exist only where protected by law ; that there is no law for it in the Territories , nor is there any power to ...
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... position on the all - impor- tant question . It simply pronounced for the Constitution , the Union , and the enforcement of the laws , which meant " anything in general and nothing in particular . " 1 1 Greeley's " American Conflict ...
... position on the all - impor- tant question . It simply pronounced for the Constitution , the Union , and the enforcement of the laws , which meant " anything in general and nothing in particular . " 1 1 Greeley's " American Conflict ...
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... position and to labor in some great cause . His aim in early life was to become a jurist , and the one great man whom he admired and imitated above all others was Joseph Story.1 Sumner's learning was very 58 SIDE LIGHTS ON AMERICAN ...
... position and to labor in some great cause . His aim in early life was to become a jurist , and the one great man whom he admired and imitated above all others was Joseph Story.1 Sumner's learning was very 58 SIDE LIGHTS ON AMERICAN ...
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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.