National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval: Founded on Official and Other Authentic Documents, Volume 1Johnson, Fry, 1861 Volume 1. Chapter i-xxix (618 pages) -- Volume 3. Chapter lxxx-cxv (642 pages). |
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... arrived in munition , were seized in all quarters . By Washington on the 26th of December . concert with Floyd of Virginia , the Sec- On the night of that very day , before retary of War at Washington , and they had opportunity to open ...
... arrived in munition , were seized in all quarters . By Washington on the 26th of December . concert with Floyd of Virginia , the Sec- On the night of that very day , before retary of War at Washington , and they had opportunity to open ...
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... arrived off the port , early on the schooner in tow , and the battery on the morning of the 9th , she found a steamer island firing at us all the time , and hav- ready to signal her appearance . " The ing no cannon to defend ourselves ...
... arrived off the port , early on the schooner in tow , and the battery on the morning of the 9th , she found a steamer island firing at us all the time , and hav- ready to signal her appearance . " The ing no cannon to defend ourselves ...
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... Arriving at New Orleans , this officer , according to his instructions , ordered Captain Bresh- Wood , in command of the cutter Robert McClelland , to proceed with her to New York ; to which the summary answer was jury and defiance on ...
... Arriving at New Orleans , this officer , according to his instructions , ordered Captain Bresh- Wood , in command of the cutter Robert McClelland , to proceed with her to New York ; to which the summary answer was jury and defiance on ...
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... An interval of about three weeks occurred after Colonel Hayne's arrival in Washington , while an effort * Governor Pickens to President Buchanan , January 11 , SEIZURE OF FORTS . 49 was made by certain Southern 48 WAR FOR THE UNION .
... An interval of about three weeks occurred after Colonel Hayne's arrival in Washington , while an effort * Governor Pickens to President Buchanan , January 11 , SEIZURE OF FORTS . 49 was made by certain Southern 48 WAR FOR THE UNION .
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... arrival at even- wind blew , it fell . ' Our new Govern- ing at the new capital , he addressed the ment is founded upon exactly the oppo- people at the railway station , and again site ideas ; its foundations are laid , its near ...
... arrival at even- wind blew , it fell . ' Our new Govern- ing at the new capital , he addressed the ment is founded upon exactly the oppo- people at the railway station , and again site ideas ; its foundations are laid , its near ...
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advance arms army artillery attack authority battery battle Beauregard brigade Bull Run called camp Captain capture cavalry Centreville Charleston citizens Colonel command companies Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution declared defence duty election enemy enemy's engaged eral ernment federacy Federal field fire flag force Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fremont Government Governor guard guns honor House hundred infantry Jefferson Davis Kentucky killed liberty Lieutenant Lincoln loyal Manassas mand Maryland ment miles military Missouri morning Navy North o'clock officers party passed patriotic peace Pickens political portion position present President President Lincoln prisoners proclamation protection rear rebel rebellion regiment retreat Richmond road seceding secession Senate sent shot side slave slavery soldiers South Carolina Southern Sumter tain Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United vessels Virginia Volunteers Washington wounded yards York Zouaves
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Página 126 - 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...
Página 23 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 23 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 123 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 34 - Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 87 - 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.
Página 4 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock...
Página 91 - 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.
Página 88 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up,
Página 84 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis ? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, / would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.