The Blairs During the Civil War and ReconstructionUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1924 |
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Populiarios ištraukos
177 psl. - That, notwithstanding the rejection of our former offers, I would, if you could promise that a commissioner, minister, or other agent would be received, appoint one immediately, and renew the effort to enter into conference, with a view to secure peace to the two countries.
53 psl. - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward.
222 psl. - Immediate restoration of all the States to their rights in the Union under the Constitution, and of civil government to the American people.
177 psl. - SIR: I have deemed it proper, and probably desirable to you, to give you in this form the substance of remarks made by me, to be repeated by you to President Lincoln, etc., etc.
97 psl. - Resolved, That at present there is no adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection with the Federal Union, but on the contrary she will labor for such an adjustment of existing troubles as will secure the peace, as well as the rights and equality of all the States.
152 psl. - That we deem it essential to the general welfare that harmony should prevail in the national councils, and we regard as worthy of public confidence and official trust those only who cordially indorse the principles proclaimed in these resolutions, and which should characterize the administration of the Government.
176 psl. - Now is it Rome indeed and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say, There was a Brutus once that would have brooked The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
32 psl. - Democracy of the United States hold these cardinal principles on the subject of slavery in the Territories : First. That Congress has no power to abolish slavery in the Territories. Second. That the Territorial legislature has no power to abolish slavery in any Territory, nor to prohibit the introduction of slaves therein, nor any power to exclude slavery therefrom, nor any power to destroy or impair the right of property in slaves by any legislation whatever.
111 psl. - State, who have declared their intention to resist the constituted authorities whenever those authorities may adopt a course distasteful to them ; and that they are, therefore, by no means bound to give him aid or comfort in his attempt to subjugate, by force of arms, a people who are still free ; but, on the contrary, that they should prepare themselves to maintain all their rights as citizens of Missouri.
181 psl. - Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am now, and shall continue ready to receive any agent whom he, or any other influential person now resisting the national authority, may informally send to me, with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country.