The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volume 1G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1862 |
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Page 48
... crowds of people , both political and civil , who were determined that the inauguration should take place , and that the Presi- dent should be protected at all hazards ; that the people's choice must take his seat at the head of the ...
... crowds of people , both political and civil , who were determined that the inauguration should take place , and that the Presi- dent should be protected at all hazards ; that the people's choice must take his seat at the head of the ...
Page 49
... crowd poured on , in one continuous stream of old and young , male and female ; staid old Quakers , from Pennsylvania , going to see Friend Abraham ; and lengthy Suckers , Hoosiers and Wolverines , desirous of a peep at Mr. 5 THE ...
... crowd poured on , in one continuous stream of old and young , male and female ; staid old Quakers , from Pennsylvania , going to see Friend Abraham ; and lengthy Suckers , Hoosiers and Wolverines , desirous of a peep at Mr. 5 THE ...
Page 53
... crowd extending a great distance on either side , and reaching far into the Capitol grounds . Every available spot was black with human beings ; boys and men cling- ing to rails , and mounting on fences , and climbing trees , until they ...
... crowd extending a great distance on either side , and reaching far into the Capitol grounds . Every available spot was black with human beings ; boys and men cling- ing to rails , and mounting on fences , and climbing trees , until they ...
Page 73
... crowd assembled in the evening , at the Congaree House , and serenaded Senator Chesnut , who made a long and elo- quent speech , declaring the last hope of the Union gone , and resistance unavoidable . At the celebration in Savannah ...
... crowd assembled in the evening , at the Congaree House , and serenaded Senator Chesnut , who made a long and elo- quent speech , declaring the last hope of the Union gone , and resistance unavoidable . At the celebration in Savannah ...
Page 74
... applause . Till nearly midnight the streets presented the most animated appearance . The crowd illuminated their passage by rockets and 74 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Great mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah,
... applause . Till nearly midnight the streets presented the most animated appearance . The crowd illuminated their passage by rockets and 74 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Great mass-meeting of the citizens at Savannah,
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Page 61 - 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?
Page 55 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 62 - 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 54 - 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 60 - 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 60 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 60 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Page 62 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 59 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 57 - Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it. One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?