Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur Geschichte der Gegenwart, herausg. von L.K. Aegidi und A. Klauhold. [With] 1er (2er) Neue Folge, Bd.1, Heft 1-4, herausg. von F. Thimme, Volume 1Ludwig Karl Aegidi 1861 |
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Page 133
... great moment , yet it is desirable that there be no misapprehension of the true state of the Government in the present emergency . You may therefore recall that conversation to M. Thouvenel's memory , and then assure him explicitly that ...
... great moment , yet it is desirable that there be no misapprehension of the true state of the Government in the present emergency . You may therefore recall that conversation to M. Thouvenel's memory , and then assure him explicitly that ...
Page 134
... great cause . Tell M. Thouvenel , then , with the highest consideration and good feeling , that the thought of a dissolution of this Union , peaceably or by force , has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here , and it ...
... great cause . Tell M. Thouvenel , then , with the highest consideration and good feeling , that the thought of a dissolution of this Union , peaceably or by force , has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here , and it ...
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... Great Britain by her colonies on this continent a common danger impelled them to a close alliance , and to the formation of a confederation , by the terms of which the colonies , styling themselves States , entered " severally into a ...
... Great Britain by her colonies on this continent a common danger impelled them to a close alliance , and to the formation of a confederation , by the terms of which the colonies , styling themselves States , entered " severally into a ...
Page 143
... great party was organized for the purpose of obtaining the administration of the government with the avowed object of using its power for the total exclusion of the slave States from all participation in the benefits of the public ...
... great party was organized for the purpose of obtaining the administration of the government with the avowed object of using its power for the total exclusion of the slave States from all participation in the benefits of the public ...
Page 145
... great questions ; that it is neither their interest nor their wish to make any demand which is not founded on strictest justice , nor do any act to injure their late confederates . " ¶To this communication no formal reply was received ...
... great questions ; that it is neither their interest nor their wish to make any demand which is not founded on strictest justice , nor do any act to injure their late confederates . " ¶To this communication no formal reply was received ...
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Page 106 - 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 108 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 108 - I, therefore, consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 112 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 108 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 110 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 112 - 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...
Page 163 - ... or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out or armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist or be concerned in the eqnipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service...
Page 111 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 112 - 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.