 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 pages
...commissioner to Maryland, explains frankly the real objects and purposes of the southern people ; viz. — "Secession is not intended to break up the present...amendments, by which these rights shall be secured to us, then we must secure them the best way we can. This question of slavery must be settled now or never.... | |
 | 1863 - 796 pages
...the meeting : " Secession is not intended to break up the present Government, but to perpetuate it. Our plan is for the Southern States to withdraw from...rights ; and if the Northern States will not make these amendments, by which these rights shall be secured to us, then we must secure them the best way... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1863 - 598 pages
...but we go out for the purpose of getting further guaranties and security for our rights. Our plaii is for the Southern States to withdraw from the Union...Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights. This question of slavery must be settled, now or never. The country has been agitated seriously by... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...the meeting : " Secession is not intended to break np the present Government, but to perpetuate it. Our plan is for the Southern States to withdraw from...rights ; and if the Northern States will not make these amendments, by which these rights shall be secured to us, then we must secure them the best way... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1864 - 546 pages
...it to us, but we go out for the purpose of getting further guaranties and security for our rights. Our plan is for the Southern States to withdraw from...Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights. This question of slavery must be settled, now or never. The country has been agitated seriously by... | |
 | 1864 - 794 pages
...Secession U not intended to break up the present Government, but to perpetuate it. Our plan is fur the Southern States to withdraw from the Union for...present, to allow amendments to the Constitution to bo made, guaranteeing our just rights; and if the Northern Status will not make theso amendments, by... | |
 | John Jay - 1864 - 80 pages
...commissioner from Mississippi to Maryland, in December, 1860, expressly declared that " their plan was for the Southern States to withdraw from the Union...present, to allow amendments to the Constitution." And it is well known that the rebels have been recommended, by their Northern sympathizers, to continue... | |
 | George Lunt - 1866 - 518 pages
...and explicit enough, whatever may be thought of the feasibility of the plan thus revealed by him : "Secession is not intended to break up the present...make those amendments, by which these rights shall be se19* cured to us, then we must secure them the best way we can. This question of slavery must be settled... | |
 | George Lunt - 1866 - 584 pages
...and explicit enough, whatever may be thought of the feasibility of the plan thus revealed by him : " Secession is not intended to break up the present...the Union for the present, to allow amendments to tho Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights ; and if the Northern States will not make... | |
 | George Lunt - 1866 - 662 pages
...to us, but we go out for the purpose of getting further guarantees and security for our rights—not by a convention of all the Southern States, nor by...the Union for the present, to allow amendments to tho Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights; and if the Northern States will not make... | |
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But our plan is for the Southern States to withdraw from the Union for the present, to allow amendments to the Constitution to be made, guaranteeing our just rights ; and if the Northern States will not make those amendments, by which these rights shall... 
