The History of the Confederate War: Its Causes and Its Conduct; a Narrative and Critical History, Band 1Sturgis & Walton Company, 1910 |
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... measure of values among men . Vast regions that had remained for generations the haunt of savages and wild beasts , with only here and there a mission station of adobe huts to offer hope I - 3 The Growth of the National Idea 33.
... measure of values among men . Vast regions that had remained for generations the haunt of savages and wild beasts , with only here and there a mission station of adobe huts to offer hope I - 3 The Growth of the National Idea 33.
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... hope of better things in some far distant future time , became , within a brief while populous territories ready to take their place in the Union as important Amercian states . Better still , a new and matchless fruitfulness had been ...
... hope of better things in some far distant future time , became , within a brief while populous territories ready to take their place in the Union as important Amercian states . Better still , a new and matchless fruitfulness had been ...
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... hope and assurance that sooner or later , by one means or by another , freedom would come to them . There were planters not a few who used their authority as the masters of slaves to compel their negroes to cultivate little fields of ...
... hope and assurance that sooner or later , by one means or by another , freedom would come to them . There were planters not a few who used their authority as the masters of slaves to compel their negroes to cultivate little fields of ...
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... hope that it might be erected presently into two or three or possibly half a dozen free states ? There were also two complaints of arrogant aggression from the opposing sides . At the North there was complaint that the " slave power ...
... hope that it might be erected presently into two or three or possibly half a dozen free states ? There were also two complaints of arrogant aggression from the opposing sides . At the North there was complaint that the " slave power ...
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... in full knowledge of the fact that its delivery must cost him his very last hope of election to the presidency ; a speech which brought upon him the odious accusation of having " sold out to the slave power . I - 7 The Compromise of 1850 ...
... in full knowledge of the fact that its delivery must cost him his very last hope of election to the presidency ; a speech which brought upon him the odious accusation of having " sold out to the slave power . I - 7 The Compromise of 1850 ...
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achieved advance adversary American anti-slavery arms assail assault authority battle battle of Manassas Beauregard behalf blockade campaign capture command Compromise of 1850 Confeder Confederacy Confederate conflict Congress Constitution contest controversy conviction defeat defense disunion dominant effect election enemy equally extremists fact Farragut Federal army fighting force Fort Sumter fought Free-soil party Fugitive Slave Law George Wythe Government Grant guns half Halleck hand Harper's Ferry human J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln majority Manassas matter McClellan McDowell McDowell's ment military mind Mississippi Missouri Compromise negro North Northern numbers party peace political position possible Potomac purpose question regarded reinforced Republic resolutions retreat Richmond river seceding secession Senate sentiment side slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern sovereignty statesmen Stonewall Jackson struggle supreme Tennessee territory thing threatened tion troops Union United utterly Valley victory Virginia volunteers vote Washington
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Seite 181 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Seite 119 - 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 181 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 129 - They had, for more than a, century before, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Seite 119 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Seite 92 - Resolved, That it is a fundamental principle in our political creed, that a people, in forming a Constitution, have the unconditional right to form and adopt the Government which they may think best calculated to secure their liberty, prosperity, and happiness...
Seite 347 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies ) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Seite 402 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Seite 298 - If I decide this case in favor of my own government, I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy, I must surrender the case itself.
Seite 208 - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn; and though I recognise no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native State.