The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc, المجلد 1Virtue & Yorston, 1862 |
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... Major Anderson , in command of a feeble gar- rison at Fort Moultrie , in Charleston harbor , became manifest , two Northern members , Cass and Toucey , earnestly pleaded for it . They were , however , overborne , and the President ...
... Major Anderson , in command of a feeble gar- rison at Fort Moultrie , in Charleston harbor , became manifest , two Northern members , Cass and Toucey , earnestly pleaded for it . They were , however , overborne , and the President ...
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... Major Anderson . - Hopelessness of the Defence of Fort Moultrie .-- A Call of Duty . - A Resolution taken . - Preparations to abandon Fort Moultrie . - Ruse . - Expedition at Night . - In possession of Fort Sumter . - Excitement in ...
... Major Anderson . - Hopelessness of the Defence of Fort Moultrie .-- A Call of Duty . - A Resolution taken . - Preparations to abandon Fort Moultrie . - Ruse . - Expedition at Night . - In possession of Fort Sumter . - Excitement in ...
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... Major Robert Anderson , of Kentucky . Major Anderson received his first commission as brevet second lieu- tenant second artillery , July 1st , 1825 , was acting inspector - general in the Black Hawk war , and received the rank of brevet ...
... Major Robert Anderson , of Kentucky . Major Anderson received his first commission as brevet second lieu- tenant second artillery , July 1st , 1825 , was acting inspector - general in the Black Hawk war , and received the rank of brevet ...
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... Major Anderson , the Federal officer in command , informed of the action of the convention in regard to the forts , witnessing the public excitement in Charleston , conscious of the intense desire of the people of South Carolina to ...
... Major Anderson , the Federal officer in command , informed of the action of the convention in regard to the forts , witnessing the public excitement in Charleston , conscious of the intense desire of the people of South Carolina to ...
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... Anderson waited for the darkness of the night before embarking his men . At half- Dec. past nine o'clock , row ... Major Anderson was in full posses- sion of Fort Sumter , with his little gar- rison . The smoke from Fort Moultrie , still ...
... Anderson waited for the darkness of the night before embarking his men . At half- Dec. past nine o'clock , row ... Major Anderson was in full posses- sion of Fort Sumter , with his little gar- rison . The smoke from Fort Moultrie , still ...
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الصفحة 42 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed ; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
الصفحة 109 - Resolved, 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
الصفحة 111 - 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.
الصفحة 115 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
الصفحة 96 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
الصفحة 158 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
الصفحة 113 - ... decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions...
الصفحة 112 - Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
الصفحة 111 - Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of...
الصفحة 42 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.