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... writer to exaggerate the importance of this great assembly : let us hear what John Fiske , of Massachusetts , says of the charter under which this assembly met : " The Magna Charta of Virginia hardly second to any other state paper of ...
... writer to exaggerate the importance of this great assembly : let us hear what John Fiske , of Massachusetts , says of the charter under which this assembly met : " The Magna Charta of Virginia hardly second to any other state paper of ...
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... writers unite in singing his praises . Monuments are even now going up to perpetuate his memory ; and , by a strange freak of fortune , his name has been given to the post - office recently established at Greenspring , the old home of ...
... writers unite in singing his praises . Monuments are even now going up to perpetuate his memory ; and , by a strange freak of fortune , his name has been given to the post - office recently established at Greenspring , the old home of ...
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... writer . " Virginia gave the signal to the continent , " wrote Gen- eral Gage , the British commander . Virginia , however , was divided ; on one side were the " big wigs " and aristoc- racy ; on the other , the yeomanry , led by ...
... writer . " Virginia gave the signal to the continent , " wrote Gen- eral Gage , the British commander . Virginia , however , was divided ; on one side were the " big wigs " and aristoc- racy ; on the other , the yeomanry , led by ...
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... writer , " Colonel Habersham put an end to royal rule in Georgia . " The Northern historians themselves have immortalized the deeds of the revolutionary South : " The blessing of Union , " says Bancroft , " is due to the warm ...
... writer , " Colonel Habersham put an end to royal rule in Georgia . " The Northern historians themselves have immortalized the deeds of the revolutionary South : " The blessing of Union , " says Bancroft , " is due to the warm ...
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... writers of either section , how- ever , have done justice to Ringgold , May , Bragg , Quitman , and Tatnall , but have given the lion's share of the glory to Scott and Taylor , while General Stephen W. Kearney is rarely given either his ...
... writers of either section , how- ever , have done justice to Ringgold , May , Bragg , Quitman , and Tatnall , but have given the lion's share of the glory to Scott and Taylor , while General Stephen W. Kearney is rarely given either his ...
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Page 198 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Page 192 - State to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure that end. When emergencies occur which are either beyond the reach of the judicial tribunals, or too pressing to admit of the delay incident to their forms, States which have no common umpire must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Page 185 - 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.
Page 61 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 188 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless...
Page 198 - Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Page 254 - tis gory, Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story Though its folds are in the dust: For its fame on brightest pages Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages Furl its folds though now we must.
Page 306 - Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah "shall not vex Ephraim...
Page 147 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 21 - Give us back the ties of Yorktown, Perish all the modern hates, Let us stand together, brothers, In defiance of the Fates, For the safety of the Union Is the safety of the States.