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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... Force Bill notoriety , who is now a representative of Massachusetts in Congress ; and it was just about four years before the holding of that convention that Josiah Quincy , also of Massachusetts , made the first speech in Congress in ...
... Force Bill notoriety , who is now a representative of Massachusetts in Congress ; and it was just about four years before the holding of that convention that Josiah Quincy , also of Massachusetts , made the first speech in Congress in ...
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... force ? Congress had no power to grant away its own authority to a new government , nor had the nation enough confidence in it to accept its decision . Accordingly the Convention resolved to lay it before the various States . The ...
... force ? Congress had no power to grant away its own authority to a new government , nor had the nation enough confidence in it to accept its decision . Accordingly the Convention resolved to lay it before the various States . The ...
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... force of 40,000 , he was met at Antietam by McClellan with 80,000 , and after a bloody but indecisive conflict recrossed the Potomac and took a position at Fredericksburg , where he was attacked by General Burnside , whose army he ...
... force of 40,000 , he was met at Antietam by McClellan with 80,000 , and after a bloody but indecisive conflict recrossed the Potomac and took a position at Fredericksburg , where he was attacked by General Burnside , whose army he ...
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... He maneuvered so as to force Hooker with all his army to follow , but at the same time so attenuated his line as to draw the fol- lowing characteristic letter from President Lincoln to Gen. Hooker : SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY . 101.
... He maneuvered so as to force Hooker with all his army to follow , but at the same time so attenuated his line as to draw the fol- lowing characteristic letter from President Lincoln to Gen. Hooker : SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY . 101.
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... force of the column was annihi- lated , and the position retaken . Gen. Lee's noble equanimity was conspicuous in this defeat in the man- ner of his meeting the disorganized remnant of that returning column , infusing them with his own ...
... force of the column was annihi- lated , and the position retaken . Gen. Lee's noble equanimity was conspicuous in this defeat in the man- ner of his meeting the disorganized remnant of that returning column , infusing them with his own ...
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Página 161 - 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 161 - 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 161 - 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 33 - 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 33 - 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 161 - O madam, if ever ye kend what it was to sorrow for and with a sinning and a suffering creature, whose mind is sae tossed that she can be neither ca'd fit to live or die, have some compassion on our misery! — Save an honest house from dishonour, and an unhappy girl, not eighteen years of age, from an early and dreadful death!
Página 195 - 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.
Página 147 - ... to form a new government — He candidly confessed that they were not intended for a federal government — he meant a strong consolidated union, in which the idea of states should be nearly annihilated.
Página 56 - 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 33 - Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession...