Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil WarNeale Publishing Company, 1906 - 351 pagina's This autobiography examines John Henninger Reagan's life and his work as the Post Master General for the Confederacy. |
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Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War John Henninger Reagan Volledige weergave - 1906 |
Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War John Henninger Reagan Volledige weergave - 1906 |
Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War John Henninger Reagan Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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Pagina 175 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Pagina 100 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Pagina 99 - But in cases of deliberate, dangerous, and palpable infractions of the Constitution, affecting the sovereignty of a State, and liberties of the people ; it is not only the right but the duty of such a State to interpose its authority for their protection, in the manner best calculated to secure that end.
Pagina 16 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward. Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake.
Pagina 98 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Pagina 175 - In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery.
Pagina 307 - Africans and their descendants shall be protected in their rights of person and property by appropriate legislation; they shall have the right to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to acquire, hold, and...
Pagina 171 - ... permit us to have peace on any other basis than our unconditional submission to their rule...
Pagina 100 - If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union ; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Pagina 169 - Hon. Mr. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States. It continued for several hours, and was both full and explicit. We learned from them that the message of President Lincoln to the Congress of the United States, in December last, explains clearly and distinctly his sentiments as to the terms, conditions, and method of proceeding by which peace can be secured to the people, and we were not informed that they would be modified or altered to obtain that end.