The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1"A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union "--T.p. |
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... Ohio . Virginia , beside retain- ing her partially settled country south of the Ohio , now forming the State of Kentucky , reserved a suffi- ciency north of the Ohio to provide liberal bounties for her officers and soldiers who fought ...
... Ohio . Virginia , beside retain- ing her partially settled country south of the Ohio , now forming the State of Kentucky , reserved a suffi- ciency north of the Ohio to provide liberal bounties for her officers and soldiers who fought ...
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... and thus the restriction failed through the absence of a member from New Jersey , ren- dering the vote of that State null for cast the vote of a State . New Jersey , therefore , failed to vote . want of a quorum . Had Delaware | Ohio ,
... and thus the restriction failed through the absence of a member from New Jersey , ren- dering the vote of that State null for cast the vote of a State . New Jersey , therefore , failed to vote . want of a quorum . Had Delaware | Ohio ,
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... Ohio , " excluding , by its silence , the V. THE CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of. been then represented , she might , and might not , have voted in the af- firmative ; but it is not probable that Georgia , had she ...
... Ohio , " excluding , by its silence , the V. THE CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of. been then represented , she might , and might not , have voted in the af- firmative ; but it is not probable that Georgia , had she ...
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... Ohio ; by the Ohio ; by a direct line , drawn due north , from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line ; and by the said national line . The eastern State shall be bounded by the last mentioned direct line , the Ohio ...
... Ohio ; by the Ohio ; by a direct line , drawn due north , from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line ; and by the said national line . The eastern State shall be bounded by the last mentioned direct line , the Ohio ...
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... Ohio , or of any par- ticular latitude , were to be surren- dered to Slavery , on the condition that the residue should be quit- claimed to free labor , is utterly un- founded and mistaken . The author of the original restriction was ...
... Ohio , or of any par- ticular latitude , were to be surren- dered to Slavery , on the condition that the residue should be quit- claimed to free labor , is utterly un- founded and mistaken . The author of the original restriction was ...
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Page 84 - Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force : that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : that the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...
Page 35 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 82 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 34 - 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.
Page 422 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 425 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 424 - For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence,, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Page 422 - To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up", their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one.
Page 301 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 35 - ... that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.