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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... strong man oppresses the weak , and strong communities , states and sections , aggress upon the rights of weaker states , commu- nities and sections . This is the principle ; but I propose to speak of it to - day only in its development ...
... strong man oppresses the weak , and strong communities , states and sections , aggress upon the rights of weaker states , commu- nities and sections . This is the principle ; but I propose to speak of it to - day only in its development ...
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... strong enough to protect themselves from Federal aggressions , if , indeed , not too strong for the efficiency of the General Government , they thus devised a system of internal checks and balances looking chiefly to the security of the ...
... strong enough to protect themselves from Federal aggressions , if , indeed , not too strong for the efficiency of the General Government , they thus devised a system of internal checks and balances looking chiefly to the security of the ...
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... strong for the framers of the Government and the founders of the city . Westward the course of architecture has taken its way ; and certainly , sir , certainly , it is not because of any especial attraction about that most venerable of ...
... strong for the framers of the Government and the founders of the city . Westward the course of architecture has taken its way ; and certainly , sir , certainly , it is not because of any especial attraction about that most venerable of ...
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... strong enough to conquer and to destroy the Democracy , and thus obtain control of the Federal Government . And most unfortunately for the peace of the country , and for the perpetuity , I fear , of the Union itself , they found the ...
... strong enough to conquer and to destroy the Democracy , and thus obtain control of the Federal Government . And most unfortunately for the peace of the country , and for the perpetuity , I fear , of the Union itself , they found the ...
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... strong sections against the weak , they would have guarded jealously against that mischief , just as they did against the danger to which they mistakenly believed the Government to be exposed ? And if this protection , sir , be now ...
... strong sections against the weak , they would have guarded jealously against that mischief , just as they did against the danger to which they mistakenly believed the Government to be exposed ? And if this protection , sir , be now ...
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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.