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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... took a leading part , while his life exemplified the Gospel , and gave new force to preaching . He had a peculiar regard for ministers , prized their society , and loved to entertain them ; so that his house was familiarly called " The ...
... took a leading part , while his life exemplified the Gospel , and gave new force to preaching . He had a peculiar regard for ministers , prized their society , and loved to entertain them ; so that his house was familiarly called " The ...
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... took occasion to go further and decide that slavery was not a local institution , and the creature of local laws , as had hitherto been supposed and acted upon in all our state and general legislation , but had a right to exist ...
... took occasion to go further and decide that slavery was not a local institution , and the creature of local laws , as had hitherto been supposed and acted upon in all our state and general legislation , but had a right to exist ...
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... took place at New Haven . The State then had two capitals , one at New Haven and the other at Hartford , growing out of the fact that the State was made up of the two original colonies of New Haven and Connecticut . The election of ...
... took place at New Haven . The State then had two capitals , one at New Haven and the other at Hartford , growing out of the fact that the State was made up of the two original colonies of New Haven and Connecticut . The election of ...
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... took place in the spring of 1859 , as in New Hampshire , Connecticut , and Rhode Island , were in favor of the Republican candidates , though New Hampshire had always been a reliably Democratic State , and Connecticut was just as likely ...
... took place in the spring of 1859 , as in New Hampshire , Connecticut , and Rhode Island , were in favor of the Republican candidates , though New Hampshire had always been a reliably Democratic State , and Connecticut was just as likely ...
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... took a distin- guished part in the capture of Mexico . He was four times . elected governor of the State . He was for six years our Minister to Russia , appointed by President Pierce . When he returned , as the secession movement was ...
... took a distin- guished part in the capture of Mexico . He was four times . elected governor of the State . He was for six years our Minister to Russia , appointed by President Pierce . When he returned , as the secession movement was ...
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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...