The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and HistoryA.R. Hart & Company, 1886 - 810 Seiten |
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... ENEMY " -EX - PRESIDENT PIERCE'S CAPTURED TREASONABLE LETTER TO JEFF . DAVIS - THE FIGHTING TO BE ' WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS , IN OUR OWN STREETS ATTITUDE OF DOUGLAS , AND THE DOUGLAS DE- MOCRACY , AFTER SUMTER - DOUGLAS CALLS ON MR ...
... ENEMY " -EX - PRESIDENT PIERCE'S CAPTURED TREASONABLE LETTER TO JEFF . DAVIS - THE FIGHTING TO BE ' WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS , IN OUR OWN STREETS ATTITUDE OF DOUGLAS , AND THE DOUGLAS DE- MOCRACY , AFTER SUMTER - DOUGLAS CALLS ON MR ...
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... enemy's country , where there is a dense population , can subsist itself at a very little cost ; it does not always pay for what it gets . An invading army can burn down towns ; an invading army can burn down manufactories ; and it can ...
... enemy's country , where there is a dense population , can subsist itself at a very little cost ; it does not always pay for what it gets . An invading army can burn down towns ; an invading army can burn down manufactories ; and it can ...
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... enemy is not . Now is the time for action , while he is yet unprepared . Let the fife sound ' Gray Jackets over the Border , ' and let a hun- dred thousand men , with such arms as they can snatch , get over the border as quickly as they ...
... enemy is not . Now is the time for action , while he is yet unprepared . Let the fife sound ' Gray Jackets over the Border , ' and let a hun- dred thousand men , with such arms as they can snatch , get over the border as quickly as they ...
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... Enemy , under General Joseph E. Johnston , at Harper's Ferry , on the Potomac , watching him . Some 50,000 Union troops were in camp , in and about Washington , on the Virginia side , under the immediate command of Generals McDowell and ...
... Enemy , under General Joseph E. Johnston , at Harper's Ferry , on the Potomac , watching him . Some 50,000 Union troops were in camp , in and about Washington , on the Virginia side , under the immediate command of Generals McDowell and ...
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... Enemy the very chance of escaping and forming that junction which was essential to Rebel success in the vicinity of Manassas . * But for this disobedience of orders , Bull Run would doubt- less have been a great victory to the Union ...
... Enemy the very chance of escaping and forming that junction which was essential to Rebel success in the vicinity of Manassas . * But for this disobedience of orders , Bull Run would doubt- less have been a great victory to the Union ...
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Seite 439 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Seite 682 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Seite 18 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Seite 184 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Seite 629 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Seite 514 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Seite 11 - ... provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 497 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Seite 50 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand/ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Seite 3 - 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.