The Outbreak of RebellionC. Scribner's sons, 1881 - 220 стор. |
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advance already Anderson April arms arrived attack authority Baltimore battle Beauregard became Blackburn's Ford brigade Buchanan Bull Run Cabinet camp campaign capture Castle Pinckney Centreville Charleston Cheat River Colonel command Confederate Congress conspiracy conspirators convention Cotton defence detachment election enemy evacuation Federal fire flag Floyd force Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts Garnett garrison Government guns harbor Harper's Ferry hill insurrection Jefferson Davis Johnston July Kentucky Legislature loyal Lyon Manassas Maryland McClellan McDowell McDowell's ments miles military militia Mississippi Missouri morning Moultrie mountain movement night North o'clock officers Ohio once ordinance Ordinance of Secession organization Patterson Pickens political Potomac President Lincoln proclamation railroad rebellion regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond River Scott secede secession Secretary sent sentiment slave slavery South Carolina Southern stone bridge Sudley road Sumter thousand tion treason troops Union army Unionists United volunteers Warrenton turnpike Washington West Virginia Winchester Young's Branch
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Сторінка 38 - 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 I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Сторінка 37 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Сторінка 61 - Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings...
Сторінка 37 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Сторінка 47 - Carolina that he might expect an attempt would be made to provision the fort ; and that, if the attempt should not be resisted, there would be no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort.
Сторінка 62 - ... and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date.
Сторінка 31 - 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 slaverj' — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Сторінка 62 - I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and existence of our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Сторінка 62 - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.