To All Whom it May Concern: The Conspiracy of Leading Men of the Republican Party to Destroy the American Union Proved by Their Words and Acts Antecedent and Subsequent to the RebellionJ. Walter & Company, 1864 - 35 Seiten |
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... hope and believe ; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all , and secure her freedom and happiness is our most ardent wish , " In his immortal Farewell Address , he writes : " Hence , likewise , they ...
... hope and believe ; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all , and secure her freedom and happiness is our most ardent wish , " In his immortal Farewell Address , he writes : " Hence , likewise , they ...
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... hope of the slave is , over the ruins of the Government and of the American Church . The dissolution of the Union is the abolition of slavery . " James Watson Webb , Mr. Lincoln's minister to Brazil , was a delegate to the Convention ...
... hope of the slave is , over the ruins of the Government and of the American Church . The dissolution of the Union is the abolition of slavery . " James Watson Webb , Mr. Lincoln's minister to Brazil , was a delegate to the Convention ...
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... hope so . The Senator says there may be a power that shall say ' Thus far shalt thou go , and no far- ther . ' [ Good ! good ! ] Sir , I hope it will come , and if it comes to blood , let blood come . No , sir , if that issue must come ...
... hope so . The Senator says there may be a power that shall say ' Thus far shalt thou go , and no far- ther . ' [ Good ! good ! ] Sir , I hope it will come , and if it comes to blood , let blood come . No , sir , if that issue must come ...
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... hope and believe is to liberate the world . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing gov- ernment may choose to exercise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own ...
... hope and believe is to liberate the world . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing gov- ernment may choose to exercise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own ...
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... hope you will send stiff - backed men or none . The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice and will end in thin smoke . Still I hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren that you will send the ...
... hope you will send stiff - backed men or none . The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice and will end in thin smoke . Still I hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren that you will send the ...
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Seite 8 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Seite 8 - And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Seite 8 - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
Seite 7 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Seite 8 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies...
Seite 22 - I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood. I only speak right on...
Seite 16 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Seite 7 - Constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Seite 16 - We hope never to live in a republic, whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets.
Seite 17 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.