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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Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861 Clement Laird Vallandigham. SPEECH OP HON . C. L. VALLANDIGHAM , OF OHIO , Delivered in the House of Representatives , February 20 , 1861 WASHINGTON : PRINTED BY HENRY ...
Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861 Clement Laird Vallandigham. SPEECH OP HON . C. L. VALLANDIGHAM , OF OHIO , Delivered in the House of Representatives , February 20 , 1861 WASHINGTON : PRINTED BY HENRY ...
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... Representatives , belligerent as you of the Republican party here may now be , to the choice of peaceable disunion upon the one hand , or Union through adjustment and conciliation upon the other . Born , sir , upon the soil of the ...
... Representatives , belligerent as you of the Republican party here may now be , to the choice of peaceable disunion upon the one hand , or Union through adjustment and conciliation upon the other . Born , sir , upon the soil of the ...
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... representatives , to tell them how this great work is to be accomplished . Sir , it has well been said that it is not to be done by eulogies . Eulogy is for times of peace . Neither is it to be done by lamentations over its decline and ...
... representatives , to tell them how this great work is to be accomplished . Sir , it has well been said that it is not to be done by eulogies . Eulogy is for times of peace . Neither is it to be done by lamentations over its decline and ...
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Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861 Clement Laird Vallandigham. 10 5 with which new settlements and new States have sprung up , as if by enchantment , in the wilderness ; or that political necessity or lust for ...
Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861 Clement Laird Vallandigham. 10 5 with which new settlements and new States have sprung up , as if by enchantment , in the wilderness ; or that political necessity or lust for ...
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... Representatives where , linked to time , solemnly and sadly she numbers out yet the fleeting hours of this perishing Republic . No ; believe me , Representatives , the causes for these movements lie deeper and are of longer dura- tion ...
... Representatives where , linked to time , solemnly and sadly she numbers out yet the fleeting hours of this perishing Republic . No ; believe me , Representatives , the causes for these movements lie deeper and are of longer dura- tion ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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.