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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... longer a mere casual and temporary rebellion of discontented individuals , but a great and terrible REVOLUTION , which threatens now to result in permanent dissolution of the Union , and division into two or more rival , if not hostile ...
... longer a mere casual and temporary rebellion of discontented individuals , but a great and terrible REVOLUTION , which threatens now to result in permanent dissolution of the Union , and division into two or more rival , if not hostile ...
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... longer dura- tion than all this . If not , then the malady needs no extreme medicine , no healing remedies , nothing , nothing . Time , patience , forbearance , quiet - these , these alone will restore the Union in a few months . But ...
... longer dura- tion than all this . If not , then the malady needs no extreme medicine , no healing remedies , nothing , nothing . Time , patience , forbearance , quiet - these , these alone will restore the Union in a few months . But ...
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... longer to recognize the authority of this Government , and already have entered into a new confederacy and set up a provisional government of their own . In three months their agents and commissioners will return from Europe with the ...
... longer to recognize the authority of this Government , and already have entered into a new confederacy and set up a provisional government of their own . In three months their agents and commissioners will return from Europe with the ...
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... longer peace can be maintained ; and the more the number of the employees and dependents on Government can be reduced , the less will be the patronage and the corruption of the system , and the less , therefore , the motive to sacrifice ...
... longer peace can be maintained ; and the more the number of the employees and dependents on Government can be reduced , the less will be the patronage and the corruption of the system , and the less , therefore , the motive to sacrifice ...
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... longer be denied or suppressed ; but , for the reasons I have already stated , I pro- pose to establish four instead of two grand sections of the Union , all of them well known or easily designated by marked , natural , or geographical ...
... longer be denied or suppressed ; but , for the reasons I have already stated , I pro- pose to establish four instead of two grand sections of the Union , all of them well known or easily designated by marked , natural , or geographical ...
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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.