Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's Administration, from 1860 to Its Close. Including a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Eight Letters from Mr. Buchanan Never Before Published, and Numerous Miscellaneous Articles |
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... authority . ... " I am glad you like the address . I have written to leading Southern men - some of them secessionists - against the right of secession , and especially against an attempt to break up the Union on the grounds assumed by ...
... authority . ... " I am glad you like the address . I have written to leading Southern men - some of them secessionists - against the right of secession , and especially against an attempt to break up the Union on the grounds assumed by ...
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... authority of the Government must be main- tained . I have written to several members of Congress , among others Governor Seward , urging the adoption of the plan I suggested to you yesterday , as one involving no sacrifice of principle ...
... authority of the Government must be main- tained . I have written to several members of Congress , among others Governor Seward , urging the adoption of the plan I suggested to you yesterday , as one involving no sacrifice of principle ...
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... authority . " This , it may as well be said here , is what President Buchanan endeavored to the utmost of his power to do , while at the same time he deemed it prudent , in the cause of peace and to avoid bloodshed , to pursue a ...
... authority . " This , it may as well be said here , is what President Buchanan endeavored to the utmost of his power to do , while at the same time he deemed it prudent , in the cause of peace and to avoid bloodshed , to pursue a ...
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... authorities were all in rebellion , and officers could not be found to enforce the execution of the laws . For instance , there was no collector of customs at Charleston , and he sent to the Senate the name of a gen- tleman to fill the ...
... authorities were all in rebellion , and officers could not be found to enforce the execution of the laws . For instance , there was no collector of customs at Charleston , and he sent to the Senate the name of a gen- tleman to fill the ...
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... authority , I believe these would be accepted though not preferred by the South . I have no reason to believe that this is at present acceptable to the Northern senators and representatives , though the tendency is in that direction ...
... authority , I believe these would be accepted though not preferred by the South . I have no reason to believe that this is at present acceptable to the Northern senators and representatives , though the tendency is in that direction ...
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Page 380 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove...
Page 380 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, : Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Page 65 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest...
Page 65 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 65 - The constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but, emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by " the people of the United States.
Page 65 - The government of the Union, then, (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case,) is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 107 - The long-continued and intemperate interference of the northern people with the question of slavery in the southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, when hostile geographical parties have been formed.
Page 69 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 180 - It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
Page 115 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.