Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of SlaveryLittle, Brown,, 1867 - 628 страница |
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... South as well as North , will ulti- mately be found on the side of freedom . The power of the North is not in injustice . We are bound to be just ; we can afford to be generous . Concede to our brethren of the South every consti ...
... South as well as North , will ulti- mately be found on the side of freedom . The power of the North is not in injustice . We are bound to be just ; we can afford to be generous . Concede to our brethren of the South every consti ...
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... South may have so lost courage as to accept and support Mr. Douglas , as only not as dangerous as the candidate of the Republican party . In either case , Mr. Douglas may succeed ; but , in either case , the lesson to Mr. Douglas and ...
... South may have so lost courage as to accept and support Mr. Douglas , as only not as dangerous as the candidate of the Republican party . In either case , Mr. Douglas may succeed ; but , in either case , the lesson to Mr. Douglas and ...
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... South ; his religious tendencies are towards the Catholic Church ; but his policy is for the advance- ment of his own interests . Hence he does not succumb to all the dogmas of the South . Slavery , to be sure , is right ; but ...
... South ; his religious tendencies are towards the Catholic Church ; but his policy is for the advance- ment of his own interests . Hence he does not succumb to all the dogmas of the South . Slavery , to be sure , is right ; but ...
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... South is the fruit of timidity in the North . Mr. Lincoln is a conservative man ; the Republican party is pledged to the Constitution and the Union by its most solemn declarations ; and , whenever the North shall declare itself for ...
... South is the fruit of timidity in the North . Mr. Lincoln is a conservative man ; the Republican party is pledged to the Constitution and the Union by its most solemn declarations ; and , whenever the North shall declare itself for ...
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... South , there are many men hostile to this Union , not so much for what it has done as for what they fear it will do . They have seen with alarm the growth of the free North , and they have anticipated the most violent attacks upon ...
... South , there are many men hostile to this Union , not so much for what it has done as for what they fear it will do . They have seen with alarm the growth of the free North , and they have anticipated the most violent attacks upon ...
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Страница 5 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Страница 5 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Страница 110 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 605 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 589 - That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Страница 349 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Страница 613 - States proposed by the thirty-ninth congress, and known as article fourteen ; and when said article shall have become a part of the constitution of the United States, said state shall be declared entitled to representation in congress, and senators and representatives shall be admitted therefrom on their taking the oath prescribed by law ; and then and thereafter the preceding sections of this act shall be inoperative in said state...
Страница 247 - Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason...
Страница 349 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war during which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public...
Страница 110 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.