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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
The Vindication of the South. [from the Richmond, Va., Times, October 22, 1899.] Brilliant Address of Hon. B. B. Munford. An array of Facts—the right of secession is set forth Unmistakably. The sentiment in the North. The South not alone in its interpretation of the Constitutionvir-ginia's love for the Union—the institution of Slavery— good of the negroes. At the unveiling of the monument to the Confederate soldiers of Accomac and Northampton at Parksley, Friday last, Hon. Beverley B. Munford, of this city, delivered an address which excited widespread interest, and brought out facts unknown to the majority of the present generation. Mr. Munford, after an appropriate allusion to the West-Harmanson Camp of Confederate Veterans, under whose leadership the monument had been erected, proceeded to portray the heroic conduct of the Confederate soldiers from Accomac and Northampton counties. Cut off from the balance of the State, their section early passed under the contr<
France (France) (search for this): chapter 1.7
ried in the defence of the liberties of America. Here was an imperial empire, four times as large as either Germany or France, peopled by a self-reliant race, the descendants of men who had established the great principle that the power to determidership of Jefferson, the empire stretching from the mouth of the Mississippi to Canada and the Pacific was acquired from France, while Monroe secured from Spain the cession of Florida. Her Taylor and Scott led the triumphant forces of the Union iisphere; in revolutions produced by the same causes that are now operating among us. What causes led to the revolution in France? One I saw myself, where interest was arrayed against interest, friend against friend, brother against brother. I havt I pronounce as a sentence of consecration, the beautiful epitaph which is said to mark the last resting place of the first Grenadier of France: Consecrated to virtue and courage, and put under the protection of the brave in every age and country.
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
tical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative by suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. This clause in the Declaration of Independence was omitted from the draft adopted by Congress. Jefferson declares in his autobiography that it was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures, for though their people had very few slaves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others. In October, 1778, the General Assembly of Virginia, then freed from the control of the British King, passed an act forever prohibiting the further importation of slaves into her Co
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
pernicious effect on manners; every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant; they bring the judgment of heaven on a country; as nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. But, says Mr. Fiske, these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far South. Trade licensed. Thus by the votes of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut, with those of the far South, an additional twenty years was added to the century and a half during which the slave trade was licensed by law, and when that period had rolled around, the statesmen and thinkers of the land stood front to front with the problem of emancipation under far different, and more difficult conditions. The General Assembly of Virginia on more than one occason considered the subject of gradual emancipation, and as late as 1832, the advocates of s
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
ufficient cause for the dissolution of the Union. In 1814 the representatives from the six New England States assembled in the celebrated Hartford convention, and, because of their opposition to tded for a period of twenty years. This action of the convention is declared by Mr. Fiske, the New England historian, a bargain between New England and the far South. Continuing, he says: This comproNew England and the far South. Continuing, he says: This compromise was carried against the sturdy opposition of Virginia. George Mason, the author of our Bill of Rights, denounced what he called the infernal traffic. Slavery, said he, discourages arts and mmities. But, says Mr. Fiske, these prophetic words were powerless against the combination of New England with the far South. Trade licensed. Thus by the votes of Massachusetts, New Hampshirend down unsullied to future generations, that she acquiesced in the Revolution. Ropes, the New England historian and author, in his History of the Civil War, referring to the Southern people, says
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
ss for a year and a half, Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation, in which he declared that the slaves held in the States, or portions of States which should be still in rebellion on the 1st of January, 1863, following, would be, by a subsequent proclamation, emancipated. His justification was found in the fact that, as a war measure, it would deplete the strength of the Confederacy and augment the forces of the Union. In all other portions of the Union where slavery was legalized, to-wit: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and portions of Louisiana and Virginia, the institution would remain unaffected by the proclamation. More than that, by the very terms of the proclamation, the people of the States in which it was made to apply could escape its effects by laying down their arms. Surely if the preservation of the institution of slavery in the seceding States furnished the incentive for their conduct, these States had simply to ground their arms and t
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
chigan, wrote the following letter to the Governor of that State: Washington, Feb. 11, 1861. My dear Governor. Governor Bingham and myself telegraphed you on Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace, or Compromise Congress. They admit that we were right, and that they were wrong; that no Republican State should have sent delegates; but they are here and cannot get away. Ohio, Indiana, Rhode Island are caving in, and there is danger of Illinois; and now they beg us for God's sake to come to their rescue and save the Republican party from rupture, The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice, and will end in thin smoke. Still, I hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren, that you will send the delegates. Truly your friend, Z. W. Chandler. His Excellency, Austin Blair. P. S.—Some of the manufacturing States think that a fight would be awful. Without a little blood-letting, this Union wil
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
dissention arose, and peace between the States or between a State and the Union, was imperilled, Virginia was foremost in her mediations. Thus in 1832, when South Carolina, by her Ordinance of Nullification, brought on the crisis involving a conflict between the State and Federal powers, it was Virginia who stepped forward as thhat the opposing tickets combined received a majority of over a million of the popular vote. Following the election of Mr. Lincoln, under the leadership of South Carolina and Cotton States, seven in number, withdrew from the Union and formed a government, and adopted a constitution in February, 1861. While there was a strong p Declaration of Independence was omitted from the draft adopted by Congress. Jefferson declares in his autobiography that it was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also,
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
e timely ending of the war prevented the necessity of its reassembling. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, in a speech delivered in the House of Representatives upon a bill for the admission of the legislation, so an act of admission would have no binding force whatever upon the people of Massachusetts. These various resolutions and enactments of State authorities, and declarations of statedear Governor. Governor Bingham and myself telegraphed you on Saturday, at the request of Massachusetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace, or Compromise Congress. They admit that we wehand of her sons, Edward Carrington and Richard Henry Lee, constituting with Nathan Dane, of Massachusetts, a special committee, prepared the celebrated ordinance of 1787 for its government, in which combination of New England with the far South. Trade licensed. Thus by the votes of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut, with those of the far South, an additional twenty years was
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.7
ntry, but of each State, as only by the separate acceptance of its terms by each State could it become binding upon her. The States were absolutely free to enter the new Union, or to retain their complete independence. Thus North Carolina and Rhode Island—the latter not being even represented at the Philadelphia convention—refused to enter. The Congress of the United States laid tariff duties upon imports from both of these Commonwealths, as in the case of other foreign States—acts which were husetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace, or Compromise Congress. They admit that we were right, and that they were wrong; that no Republican State should have sent delegates; but they are here and cannot get away. Ohio, Indiana, Rhode Island are caving in, and there is danger of Illinois; and now they beg us for God's sake to come to their rescue and save the Republican party from rupture, The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment and advice, and will end in thin smoke. <
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