The Real Issue Union Or Disunion (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Real Issue Union Or Disunion (Classic Reprint) write by Samuel Scott Marshall. This book was released on 2015-07-11. The Real Issue Union Or Disunion (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Real Issue Union or Disunion Fellow-Citizens: We are rapidly approaching the close of the most extraordinary session of Congress known to the history of our country, and the most important epoch in our country's destiny. I know that you have not been indifferent spectators of the scenes transpiring around us. I know that with that love of the Union which is among the most cherished sentiments of your hearts, you have heard with deep solicitude those wild cries of disunion, anarchy, and civil war which have been sweeping over your beautiful prairies and carrying consternation to the remotest corners of the republic. Fellow-citizens, as your representative, I occupy the position of a sentinel for you here, and it is your right to have a faithful report from me, in regard to everything pertaining to your interests; and as far as my humble abilities will enable me to give such report, you shall have it. I hope to see you all soon, but the condition of my health will not permit me to be among you as soon as I could desire, and I am therefore called upon, by an imperative sense of duty, to address you now in this manner. On almost any other occasion, I would say something in regard to my own course as your representative, but when the destiny of a great nation is at stake, the conduct, or even the fate, of so humble an individual as myself is a matter of very small moment. I will therefore for the present leave my official acts to be interpreted and explained by the official records of the House of which I am a member. You know that I am not a bitter partisan, and would not intentionally deceive you or give the alarm of danger when 1 know there was none. Always a Democrat, I have often met the old Whig party in honorable combat, but never with denunciation of its virtuous members or patriotic purposes, and have always numbered in its ranks many of my most cherished friends. But the clarion voice of Clay is now hushed in the silence of death, and the lofty brow of Webster has bowed to the tyranny of the grave. The same earth which gave a final resting-place to Jefferson, and Madison, and Jackson, has also taken to her bosom all that was mortal of the gallant Clay, and the God-like Webster. The flag of the party which they loved no longer floats on the field of combat, new and fearful issues have been sprung upon us, and the public mind is agitated, and rocking to and fro like the surging billows of the ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Real Issue, Union Or Disunion
The Real Issue, Union Or Disunion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Real Issue, Union Or Disunion write by Samuel Scott Marshall. This book was released on 2017-01-10. The Real Issue, Union Or Disunion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Real Issue, Union or Disunion: Letter of Hon. S. S. Marshall, on the Parties and Politics of the Day, to the Freemen of the Ninth Congressional District of Illinois Ans. Under its benign in uences, our growth and prosperity have been extraordinary and unparalleled; Every year of its duration has te'emed with fresh proof of its utility, and its blessings and with it our pt'rosplscts in the future are all that the heart of man can d'esire. But no patriot; who has read'the history of the past, can look the prospect of disunion in the face without a shudder of soul sickening horror. Those 'whd believe that these States can separate peacefully and without blood-shed and civil war, have given very little consideration to the history of our race. If we separate, it will be because feelings of hatred have been *engendered which are inconsistent with a state of peace. 'ifiwe cannot keep the peace under the high and holy sanctions @f the bonds made 'for us by our revolutionary fathers, what hope is there for us when those bonds'are broken tip and destroyed? And What will be the result of that war into which We must be precipitated? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Real Issue--union Or Disunion
The Real Issue--union Or Disunion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Real Issue--union Or Disunion write by Samuel Scott Marshall. This book was released on 1856. The Real Issue--union Or Disunion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Union, Disunion, and Reunion (Classic Reprint)
Union, Disunion, and Reunion (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Union, Disunion, and Reunion (Classic Reprint) write by O'sullivan O'sullivan. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Union, Disunion, and Reunion (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Union, Disunion, and Reunion Upon that state of Opinion and feeling at the South which had generated a growing Disunion party there, and prepared the minds of the masses of the people for it, when the occasion of culminating irritation should arise; Upon that condition of opinions and of parties at the North, on the other hand, which had not only led it, in spite of manifold and unmistakeable warnings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Union Or Disunion
Union Or Disunion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Union Or Disunion write by John Minor Botts. This book was released on 2015-07-09. Union Or Disunion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Union or Disunion: The Union Cannot and Shall Not Be Dissolved, Mr. Lincoln Not an Abolitionist I know I shall be called an Abolitionist. A Voice - Of course. Of course - and why not? Because I do not vote the Democratic ticket. And yet, when I reflect that such men as Henry Clay, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Winfield Scott, all natives of Virginia, have been held, by that party which denounces me, as unsound on the institution of Slavery - as being, in truth. Abolitionists of the darkest dye, and that such men as Martin Van Buren, Gen. Cass, Franklin Pierce, and. James Buchanan, are only to be trusted on this question, I must say I am reconciled to the denunciation of the party. Such a charge gives me no annoyance. I feel as comfortable under it as a man who has a note in Bank, with a plenty of money in his pocket; he can discharge the obligation whenever it meets his convenience; and in like manner, I can relieve myself of this imputation, whenever I desire to do so, or that it occasions me the least disturbance. All I have to do is to vote the Democratic ticket, and the charge will never be made again. For I have never heard the charge made yet against one of their own party, and have never known one of prominence in our party against whom it was not made. I gave my answer to the foul libel in 1856, when I said, "He who calls me an Abolitionist, is either a knave or a fool, and not unfrequently both." I have nothing to add to, or take from what I then said, I treat the whole thing with contempt. I propose now to enter upon the discussion of some questions involved in the present canvass. A very extraordinary state of things exists in the country. We have not only, for the first time in the history of the Democratic party, two candidates presented to the people, but we have threats of disunion, more or less, in every Southern state, depending upon certain contingencies. An uncharitable mind might come to the conclusion, perhaps, that the reasons of the division had arisen from the fact of an empty treasury, for I believe nobody ever heard of a division of the Democratic party as long as there remained any money in the treasury that they could appropriate to themselves; but having spent $17,000,000 that were in the treasury at the time they came into power, and created a debt of $60,000,000more, it might be that they had divided for the purpose of enabling us to get into power that we might replenish it for them. [Laughter and applause]. But I think there are other reasons for it, which I shall attempt to make manifest. When you get into conversation with those gentlemen who talk in this way of the contingency to which I refer, you will find they have almost as many reasons as there are persons you encounter. If you ask one of the Breckinridge portion of the Democracy why they have two candidates in the field, and why they could not support Douglas, who was the regular nominee of the National Democratic party, if such a party can be supposed to exist, they tell you it was because Douglas was the advocate of the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, and that he stands on a platform they cannot support, notwithstanding the fact that in the Charleston Convention they voted fifty-seven times for Mr. Hunter I mean the delegation from Virginia upon the identical platform that Douglas now occupies. But I take issue with the gentlemen, and I deny that Squatter Sovereignty has anything to do with the question between the Breckinridge and Douglas men. I deny it because I make the assertion, broadly and without qualification as far as my knowledge extends, that there was not a Democrat from the Southern States in the Charleston Convention that did not stand unqualifiedly and overwhelmingly committed to Squatter Sove-reiagntv. They were all its advocates, and they all assisted as far as they could, whether in Congress or out of it, in establishing that doctrine. What is the doctrine of.
