Some Truths of History: A Vindication of the South Against the Encyclopedia Britannica and Other MalignersByrd Printing Company, 1903 - 263 páginas |
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... Convention of the Republican party - while not a native of the South , was the son of a Southern woman . The organizer and the first president of the " Underground Railroad " were Southern men , " the publisher of the first aboli- tion ...
... Convention of the Republican party - while not a native of the South , was the son of a Southern woman . The organizer and the first president of the " Underground Railroad " were Southern men , " the publisher of the first aboli- tion ...
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... convention at Hartford the se- cession of the New England States from the Union , because their trade was hurt by the war for the main- tenance of American rights and honor which was then going on between the United States and England ...
... convention at Hartford the se- cession of the New England States from the Union , because their trade was hurt by the war for the main- tenance of American rights and honor which was then going on between the United States and England ...
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... CONVENTION . That Convention at Hartford was the first Seces- sion Convention in the history of the Union , and was presided over by the great - grand - father of Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge , of Force Bill notoriety , who is now a ...
... CONVENTION . That Convention at Hartford was the first Seces- sion Convention in the history of the Union , and was presided over by the great - grand - father of Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge , of Force Bill notoriety , who is now a ...
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... great Chief Justice ; John Tyler , Federal judge , Governor of Virginia ( and father of another of her worthy sons , President Tyler ) , who instituted the first measures for the convention to frame our Con- 54 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
... great Chief Justice ; John Tyler , Federal judge , Governor of Virginia ( and father of another of her worthy sons , President Tyler ) , who instituted the first measures for the convention to frame our Con- 54 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
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... convention to frame our Con- stitution in place of that of the Confederation ; John Taylor , of Caroline ; the Blands , the Pages , the Nich- olases , the Burwells , the Grymeses , the Lewises , the Lyons , the Mercers , the Cockes ...
... convention to frame our Con- stitution in place of that of the Confederation ; John Taylor , of Caroline ; the Blands , the Pages , the Nich- olases , the Burwells , the Grymeses , the Lewises , the Lyons , the Mercers , the Cockes ...
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Página 181 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship - and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low - lang and late may it be yours!
Página 179 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 182 - Oh, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Página 65 - That it will be a federal, and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors, the act of the people, as forming so many independent states, not as forming one aggregate nation, is obvious from this single consideration, that it is to result neither from the decision of a majority of the people of the union, nor from that of a majority of the states. It must result from the unanimous assent of the several states that are parties to it, differing no otherwise from their ordinary...
Página 165 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Página 40 - The Commanding General therefore earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain with most scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private property ; and he enjoins upon all officers to arrest and bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on this subject. RE LEE, General.
Página 186 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 164 - To what purpose would it be to authorize suits against states for the debts they owe ? How could recoveries be enforced ? It is evident that it could not be done, without waging war against the contracting state : and to ascribe to the federal courts, by mere implication, and in destruction of a pre-existing right of the state governments, a power which would involve such a consequence, would be altogether forced and unwarrantable.
Página 40 - There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness on the part of some that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.
Página 235 - States to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind ; and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the centre.