Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and SecessionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1909 - Всего страниц: 329 |
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Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln action admitted to probate adopted African African slave trade amendment American American Colonization Society Amherst County ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS Assembly attempt attitude Bancroft cause citizens Civil Clerk's Office coerce coercion Colonization Society Congress constitution Cotton County Court Records declared delegates disunion efforts election emancipation enacted executors existence Extract Federal Government Fort Sumter free negroes freedom Fugitive Slave Law George Governor Henry History of United Idem inaugural institution of slavery insurrection James Jefferson Journal of Virginia land Legislature liberty Madison March ment National North Northern Ohio peace political population position precipitated President Lincoln proclamation provision Randolph Republican Party resolutions respect Rhodes Richmond Robert says seceded secession Seward slave trade slaveholders slavery in Virginia South Carolina Southern Confederacy SPECIMENS OF DEEDS Speeches statute Sumter territory Theodore Parker tion Union VIEWS Virginia Convention Virginia Historical Society Virginia's secession Volumes vote Washington Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison wrote
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Стр. 23 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any contract deprive or divest their posterity; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and
Стр. 263 - I, therefore, consider that in view of the constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be /faithfully executed in all the states. Doing this I deem to be
Стр. 19 - these very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Стр. 75 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain than that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Стр. 6 - 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.
Стр. 193 - of the rights of the states, and especially of each state, to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend.'
Стр. 86 - Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God; that they are not violated but with His wrath?
Стр. 208 - powers delegated to itself: but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. "That the
Стр. 194 - pose, 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.
Стр. 84 - Writing in the same year to John F. Mercer, he said: " I never mean, unless some particular circumstance shall compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.