Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the RebelsG.W. Childs, 1862 - 458 halaman This work discusses the rise, progression and decline of pro-secession views in Tennessee before and during the Civil War. |
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... Crittenden , to the Supreme Court as an example , it has manifested thus far only conservative tendencies , and it has afforded proof that it does not seek to abolitionize the Judiciary . It would be more reasonable , more prudent , and ...
... Crittenden , to the Supreme Court as an example , it has manifested thus far only conservative tendencies , and it has afforded proof that it does not seek to abolitionize the Judiciary . It would be more reasonable , more prudent , and ...
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... Crittenden Compromise . " But Douglas overheard Mason say in the Senate , " No matter what compromise the North offers , the South must find a way to defeat it . " The Congress of the United States would have given any compromise wanted ...
... Crittenden Compromise . " But Douglas overheard Mason say in the Senate , " No matter what compromise the North offers , the South must find a way to defeat it . " The Congress of the United States would have given any compromise wanted ...
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... Crittenden . " I am , sir , very respectfully , your obedient servant , " A. S. CUNNINGHAM , Acting Adjutant - General . ” 66 The following letter , a copy of which I was fur- nished with on the day and date of the foregoing , seems to ...
... Crittenden . " I am , sir , very respectfully , your obedient servant , " A. S. CUNNINGHAM , Acting Adjutant - General . ” 66 The following letter , a copy of which I was fur- nished with on the day and date of the foregoing , seems to ...
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... Crittenden before the twenty - four hours had expired , and was accompanied by Colonel Baxter . I there and then obtained from General Crittenden a renewal of his promise . This was on the 5th ; and the morning of the 7th was agreed ...
... Crittenden before the twenty - four hours had expired , and was accompanied by Colonel Baxter . I there and then obtained from General Crittenden a renewal of his promise . This was on the 5th ; and the morning of the 7th was agreed ...
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... ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS . While in the hands of the marshal , I addressed the following note to General Crittenden , and sent it by Colone Williams : KNOXVILLE , Dec. 6 , 1861 . MAJOR - GENERAL 296 . BROWNLOW'S EXPERIENCES.
... ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS . While in the hands of the marshal , I addressed the following note to General Crittenden , and sent it by Colone Williams : KNOXVILLE , Dec. 6 , 1861 . MAJOR - GENERAL 296 . BROWNLOW'S EXPERIENCES.
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Halaman 15 - ... of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...
Halaman 458 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Halaman 157 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Halaman 326 - DID Christ o'er sinners weep, And shall our cheeks be dry? Let floods of penitential grief Burst forth from every eye. 2 The Son of God in tears Angels with wonder see: Be thou astonished, O my soul, He shed those tears for thee. 3 He wept that we might weep Each sin demands a tear ; In Heaven alone no sin is found, And there's no weeping there.
Halaman 275 - But yesterday, and England might have stood against the world; now none so poor to do her reverence.
Halaman 295 - America, not having the fear of God before his eyes nor weighing the duty of his said allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Halaman 47 - The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the objects which it is expressly formed to attain.
Halaman 167 - But if we could do as our fathers did — organize "committees of safety" all over the cotton States (and it is only in them that we can hope for any effective movement) — we shall fire the Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind, give courage to each other, and, at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, we can precipitate the cotton States into a revolution.
Halaman 405 - Improve, then, young gentlemen, the superior advantages you here enjoy. Let not a day pass without exercising your powers of speech. There is no power like that of oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears ; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author ; that of the other continues to this day.
Halaman 207 - ... dangerous to the Union and destructive of its objects, and seeing no mode by which such controversy can be avoided, except by a strict adherence to the settlement thereof effected by the compromise acts passed at the last session of Congress, do hereby declare their intention to maintain the said settlement inviolate, and to resist all attempts to repeal or alter the acts aforesaid, unless by the general consent of the friends of the measure, and to remedy such evils, if any, as time and experience...