Speech of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, of Ohio: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861H. Polkinhorn, 1861 - 23 Seiten |
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... Government may be made a source of wealth , then honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can bind it . In a Federal Republic all these evils are found in their amplest proportions ...
... Government may be made a source of wealth , then honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can bind it . In a Federal Republic all these evils are found in their amplest proportions ...
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... us new territories and States equal in extent to the entire area of the country for which they were then framing a Government ? They were not priests or prophets to that God of MANIFEST DESTINY whom we now wor- ship , and will continue ...
... us new territories and States equal in extent to the entire area of the country for which they were then framing a Government ? They were not priests or prophets to that God of MANIFEST DESTINY whom we now wor- ship , and will continue ...
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... Federal Government . Every admission of new States ; every acquisition of new territory ; every increase of wealth , population , or resources of any kind ; all moral , social , intellectual , or inventive de- velopment the press , the ...
... Federal Government . Every admission of new States ; every acquisition of new territory ; every increase of wealth , population , or resources of any kind ; all moral , social , intellectual , or inventive de- velopment the press , the ...
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... government . Nor , sir , is this mischief , if mischief indeed it be , confined wholly to any one department of the General Government ? The Federal judiciary — to begin with it- here and in the States , dazzles the imagination and ...
... government . Nor , sir , is this mischief , if mischief indeed it be , confined wholly to any one department of the General Government ? The Federal judiciary — to begin with it- here and in the States , dazzles the imagination and ...
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... Government ; except , indeed , of the few who , like Patrick Henry , were derided as ghost - seers and hypochon ... Federal Government . Fifteen years ago - to g › back no further - just previous to the Mexican war , the receipts of the ...
... Government ; except , indeed , of the few who , like Patrick Henry , were derided as ghost - seers and hypochon ... Federal Government . Fifteen years ago - to g › back no further - just previous to the Mexican war , the receipts of the ...
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Seite 11 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Seite 11 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Seite 14 - ... does : by it the hand of man is raised against his neighbour, against his brother, and against his father; the servant betrays his master, and the whole scene ends in confusion and devastation.