The Life of William A. Buckingham: The War Governor of Connecticut, with a Review of His Public Acts, and Especially the Distinguished Services He Rendered His Country During the War of the Rebellion; with which is Incorporated, a Condensed Account of the More Important Campaigns of the War, and Information from Private Sources and Family and Official DocumentsW. F. Adams Company, 1894 - 537 pages |
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... Issue such Proclamation as soon as the Government Should Have Gained Some Important Victory - It was Done after the Battle of Antietam . CHAPTER XVI . A TURNING POINT IN THE WAR , 270 Effect of the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg ...
... Issue such Proclamation as soon as the Government Should Have Gained Some Important Victory - It was Done after the Battle of Antietam . CHAPTER XVI . A TURNING POINT IN THE WAR , 270 Effect of the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg ...
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... issue had ceased to be merely a political one ; it was fearfully moral , as we were compelled to feel when we were all so scourged for our con- nection with it . This religious conviction and moral senti- ment were the reliance of the ...
... issue had ceased to be merely a political one ; it was fearfully moral , as we were compelled to feel when we were all so scourged for our con- nection with it . This religious conviction and moral senti- ment were the reliance of the ...
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... issue then before the country : The President , in his late message to Congress , urges the purchase or , if necessary , the conquest of Cuba with a zeal worthy of an object as high and as noble as the abolition of the slave trade , and ...
... issue then before the country : The President , in his late message to Congress , urges the purchase or , if necessary , the conquest of Cuba with a zeal worthy of an object as high and as noble as the abolition of the slave trade , and ...
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... issue between the free States and the slave States , and the position assumed by one of the former , just as the country was about to be plunged into all the perplexities of disunion , and the horrors of a fearful war . Whatever dif ...
... issue between the free States and the slave States , and the position assumed by one of the former , just as the country was about to be plunged into all the perplexities of disunion , and the horrors of a fearful war . Whatever dif ...
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... issue was once settled by a national election , as every other great issue had been peacefully settled in this way , and so both sections of the country and all parties set about earnestly and anxiously preparing for the coming presi ...
... issue was once settled by a national election , as every other great issue had been peacefully settled in this way , and so both sections of the country and all parties set about earnestly and anxiously preparing for the coming presi ...
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Page 28 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 106 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth 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 106 - 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 / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 266 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 105 - 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 220 - And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty, — that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note — is now noting — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched...
Page 406 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 89 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Page 101 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support, and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with...
Page 389 - General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...