Recollections of a LifetimeNeale Publishing Company, 1906 - 266 ページ |
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... Union , he did not hesitate to unite his fortunes with those of the Confederacy . He had been ardently and devotedly attached to the Constitutional Union of 1789 , because he regarded it as the palladium of the people's liberties and ...
... Union , he did not hesitate to unite his fortunes with those of the Confederacy . He had been ardently and devotedly attached to the Constitutional Union of 1789 , because he regarded it as the palladium of the people's liberties and ...
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... Union was dissolved . It was during the session of the 36th Congress in the winter of 1860 that I witnessed the proceedings referred to . At that time R. M. T. Hunter and James M. Mason repre- sented Virginia in the Senate of the United ...
... Union was dissolved . It was during the session of the 36th Congress in the winter of 1860 that I witnessed the proceedings referred to . At that time R. M. T. Hunter and James M. Mason repre- sented Virginia in the Senate of the United ...
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... Union itself . As one of the humblest members of that body , and the only survivor , with one exception , in Virginia , I propose to vindicate the truth of history , so far at least as Virginia is concerned . I shall attempt to prove ...
... Union itself . As one of the humblest members of that body , and the only survivor , with one exception , in Virginia , I propose to vindicate the truth of history , so far at least as Virginia is concerned . I shall attempt to prove ...
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... Union , they made no mental reservation but acted in good faith and meant what they said . But there is no incom- patibility whatever between loyalty to the restored Union and loyalty to the Confederate dead . of While we stand ready to ...
... Union , they made no mental reservation but acted in good faith and meant what they said . But there is no incom- patibility whatever between loyalty to the restored Union and loyalty to the Confederate dead . of While we stand ready to ...
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... Union , why shall not we hold forever in grateful and affectionate remembrance the virtues and the heroism of those who for four long years encountered without a murmur the hardships of the march , the privations of the camp , and the ...
... Union , why shall not we hold forever in grateful and affectionate remembrance the virtues and the heroism of those who for four long years encountered without a murmur the hardships of the march , the privations of the camp , and the ...
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44th Congress 4th of March adopted amended American appointed electors army assembled battle Bedford bill Bocock Brockenbrough called candidate carpetbagger certificates citizen colonies Commission Commonwealth Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution convention Davis debate declared duly elected delegates Democratic district duly elected President duty electoral vote eloquence Eppa Hunton February Federal Florida friends gentleman George Georgia ginia Government Governor Hayes electors heard held honor House of Burgesses House of Representatives James Jamestown Jefferson John Letcher John Randolph Tucker John Tyler Judge jury Justice lawyers leaders liberty Louisiana ment military never noble nominated objections occasion orator party Patrick Henry patriotic persons President and Vice-President Readjuster party Republican resolution Richmond secession Senate session slaves soldiers South Carolina Speaker submitted Supreme Court Thomas Tilden Tilden electors tion Tucker Union United Virginia Washington William William Ballard Preston Wise young
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251 ページ - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
200 ページ - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.
200 ページ - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
190 ページ - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
189 ページ - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
49 ページ - The States, then, being the parties to the Constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and, consequently, that, as the parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.
130 ページ - Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate...
240 ページ - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
79 ページ - Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce ; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation ; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.
78 ページ - We, the People of the Confederate States, each State acting in its Sovereign and Independent character, in order to form a Permanent Federal Government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.