“The” American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : It's 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, Svazek 1O.D. Case, 1865 |
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Strana 20
... effective than now , it must not be inferred that food was scanty or hunger predominant . The woods were alive with game , and nearly every boy and man be- tween fifteen and sixty years of age was a hunter 20 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
... effective than now , it must not be inferred that food was scanty or hunger predominant . The woods were alive with game , and nearly every boy and man be- tween fifteen and sixty years of age was a hunter 20 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
Strana 21
... Nearly the same method of providing for the poor prevails through all the States ; and , from Savannah to Portsmouth , you will seldom meet a beggar . In the larger towns , indeed , they sometimes present themselves . These are usually ...
... Nearly the same method of providing for the poor prevails through all the States ; and , from Savannah to Portsmouth , you will seldom meet a beggar . In the larger towns , indeed , they sometimes present themselves . These are usually ...
Strana 22
... nearly two hundred seventeen OUR COUNTRY IN 1859-60 . 23 lions of dollars. means intolerable . It is not too much to assume that the men by whose valor and virtue American in- dependence was achieved , and who lived to enjoy , for half a ...
... nearly two hundred seventeen OUR COUNTRY IN 1859-60 . 23 lions of dollars. means intolerable . It is not too much to assume that the men by whose valor and virtue American in- dependence was achieved , and who lived to enjoy , for half a ...
Strana 23
... nearly all our finer woolen and sixty - three thousand and ninety- fabrics . We produced sixty - three six pupils ; eighty thousand nine millions ' worth of Leather ; eight hundred and seventy - eight Common hundred and seventy - five ...
... nearly all our finer woolen and sixty - three thousand and ninety- fabrics . We produced sixty - three six pupils ; eighty thousand nine millions ' worth of Leather ; eight hundred and seventy - eight Common hundred and seventy - five ...
Strana 28
... nearly half a century old in the British West In- dies . Spanish , Dutch , Portuguese , and British vessels and trading com- panies vied with each other for the gains to be speedily acquired by purchasing , or kidnapping , young negroes ...
... nearly half a century old in the British West In- dies . Spanish , Dutch , Portuguese , and British vessels and trading com- panies vied with each other for the gains to be speedily acquired by purchasing , or kidnapping , young negroes ...
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Abolitionists adopted amendment Annexation arms army authority battery bill Breckinridge called Charleston citizens civil command Committee Compromise Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution Convention Court Cuba declared delegates Democratic District Disunion Douglas Dred Scott duty election enemy existing favor Federal fire force Fort Sumter Free Free-State Georgia Government Governor gress guns Harper's Ferry held House Jackson Jefferson Jefferson Davis John Kansas Kentucky labor land laws Legislature liberty Lincoln majority March Maryland ment Messrs Mexico miles Mississippi Missouri Missouri Compromise National Nays negroes North Northern officers Ohio opinion party passed peace persons President principles pro-Slavery proposition question Rebels regard regiment Republican Resolved Scott seceded Secession Senate sent sion Slave Power Slave-Trade slaveholding Slavery soon South Carolina Southern stitution Sumter Tennessee territory Texas thereof tion treaty troops Union Unionists United Virginia vote Washington Whig Wilmot Proviso Yeas York
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Strana 83 - 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 among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure...
Strana 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.
Strana 41 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Strana 261 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Strana 414 - 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.
Strana 174 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Strana 412 - That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them.
Strana 413 - 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.
Strana 413 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Strana 83 - That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government, but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...