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Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
ke their home in battle; slender battalions do the duty of divisions. Generals die in the thick fight; captains become generals; a private is a company. Luxuries disappear; necessities become luxuries. Fields are wasted; crops and barns are burned; flocks and herds are consumed, and naught is left but man and steel—the soldier and his sword. The desolate winter lays white and bleak upon the land; its chill winds are resisted by warm and true affections. Atlanta, Mobile, Charleston, Savannah fall—the Confederacy is cut to pieces. Its fragments become countries with frontiers on skirmish lines and capitals on horseback. Ports are sealed—the world and the South are parted. All the dearer seems the scant sky that hangs over her bleeding children. On and on and on come the thickening masses of the North— brave men, bravely led, and ably commanded; and as those of the South grow thinner, theirs grow stronger. Hope sinks; despair stiffens courage. Everything fails but ma
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 1.10
ks that he came within 1,000 votes of election. When he turned homeward from Mexico, the laurelled hero of Buena Vista, he was everywhere hailed with acclamation, th those of the Union army now thundering at their gates, and then march off to Mexico to assert the Monroe doctrine and expel Maximilian, the usurping emperor, from appointment and twice by election), a colonel of the Mississippi volunteers in Mexico, twice a candidate for Governor of his State before the people—these designatiuggestion of the number and dignity of his employments. Military services in Mexico. How he led the Mississippi riflemen in storming Monterey without bayonets; s the Mexican war and the Oregon question, ere he resigned to take the field in Mexico, and when he returned to public life after the Mexican war it was as a member o Representatives, on February 12, 1848—one who had just voted that the war with Mexico was unnecessary and unconstitutional, and who now based his views of the rights
Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
the true birth spot of the free nation. Right here I stand to-night on the soil of that State which first of all America stood alone free and independent? Beyond the confines of the South her sons had rendered yeoman service; and would not the step of the British conqueror have been scarce less than omnipotent had not Morgan's riflemen from the Valley of Virginia and the peerless commander of Mt. Vernon appeared on the plains of Boston? You may follow the tracks of the Continentals at Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth and Morristown by the blood and the graves of the Southern men who died on Northern soil, far away from their homes, answering the question with their lives: Did the South love the Union? The love of the South for American institutions. Did not the South love American institutions? What school-boy cannot tell? Who wrote the great Declaration? Who threw down the gage, Liberty or Death? Who was chief framer of t
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
defining and punishing treason against itself. No man could have an independent citizenship of the United States, but could only acquire citizenship of the federation by virtue of citizenship of one of the States. The eminent domain of the soil remained in the State, and to it escheated the property of the intestate and heirless dead. Was not this the sovereign that had the right to command in the last resort? Tucker had so taught in his commentaries on Blackstone, writing from old Williamsburg; so Francis Rawle, the eminent lawyer whom Washington had asked to be Attorney-General, writing on the Constitution, in Philadelphia; and so DeTocqueville, the most acute and profound foreign writer on American institutions. No arbiter to decide the question of secession. Where could an arbiter be found? There was no method of invoking the Supreme Court; it had no jurisdiction to coerce a State or summon it to its bar. Nor could its decree be final. For it is a maxim of our jurisp
Chatham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.10
's great men. I shall maintain that the Southern people have been as true to these instincts as any portion of their race, and have made for them as great sacrifices; that the Southern Confederacy grew out of them, and only in a subsidiary degree in antagonism to any one of them; and I shall also maintain that Jefferson Davis is entitled to stand in the Pantheon of the world's great men on a pedestal not less high than those erected for the images of Hampden, Sidney, Cromwell, Burke and Chatham, of the fatherland, and Washington and Hamilton, Jefferson and Adams, Madison and Franklin, of the New World, who, however varying in circumstance or in personality, were liberty leaders and representatives of great people, great ideas, and great deeds. Unity of the Southern colonies against slavery. On what ground will he be challenged? Did not the Southern folk show originally an aversion to slavery more manifestly even than those of the North? South Carolina protested against it
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
hurous storm, the undaunted hero dropped the visor of his helmet and stood there to die. Would you know why the South is great? Look on the new-made grave in Louisiana, and consider the ragged soldier of Bentonville and Appomattox. Early days—Davis and Lincoln. After the Revolutionary war Samuel Davis, who had served in iach case in opposition made by the North to wars or measures conducted to win the empire and solidify the structure of the Union. While Jefferson was annexing Louisiana, Massachusetts legislators were declaring against it as forming a new confederacy, to which the States united by the former compact were not bound to adhere. e will vindicate the right as best we may. Secession and Virginia. Well was that pledge redeemed. South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, and North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee, all seceded, while Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland were divided in sentiment. Jefferson Davis bec
Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
ght here I stand to-night on the soil of that State which first of all America stood alone free and independent? Beyond the confines of the South her sons had rendered yeoman service; and would not the step of the British conqueror have been scarce less than omnipotent had not Morgan's riflemen from the Valley of Virginia and the peerless commander of Mt. Vernon appeared on the plains of Boston? You may follow the tracks of the Continentals at Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth and Morristown by the blood and the graves of the Southern men who died on Northern soil, far away from their homes, answering the question with their lives: Did the South love the Union? The love of the South for American institutions. Did not the South love American institutions? What school-boy cannot tell? Who wrote the great Declaration? Who threw down the gage, Liberty or Death? Who was chief framer of the Constitution? Who became its great expoun
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
rmer friendship, from recent defection to the time when Massachusetts and Virginia, the stronger brothers of our family, stoohe groups of colonists which settled in Virginia and in Massachusetts, and which they think impressed upon the incipient civis not the first statute establishing slavery enacted in Massachusetts in 1641, with a certain comic comprehensiveness providistill existed in every one of the thirteen States, save Massachusetts only. True, its decay had begun where it was no longerf the Union. While Jefferson was annexing Louisiana, Massachusetts legislators were declaring against it as forming a new xed, and Jefferson Davis was in Congress advocating it, Massachusetts was declaring it unconstitutional, and that any such alie then assumed was the same that he had occupied when Massachusetts had been arraigned at the bar of the Senate, and when tion then was the same as it is now. I then said that if Massachusetts chose to take the last step which separates her from th
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
, Madison, Marshall, Mason, Washington, speak from your graves and give the answer. The South Leads in Acquiring the national domain. Did not the South do its part in acquiring the imperial domain of the nation? When the Revolution ended the thirteen States that lay on the Atlantic seaboard rested westward in a wilderness, and the Mississippi marked the extreme limits of their claims as the Appalachian range marked the bounds of civilization. The northwestern territory north of the Ohio river, which now embraces Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was conquered by George Rogers Clarke, a soldier of Virginia, under commissions from Patrick Henry as Governor. But for this conquest the Ohio would have been our northern boundary, and by Virginia's gift and Southern votes this mighty land was made the dowry of the Union. Kentucky, the first-born State that sprung from the Union was a Southern gift to the new confederation. The great territory stretching from the G
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.10
down in material ruin—it would have been buried in disgrace. Excesses, sure to bring retribution in the end, would have blotted its career, and weakness would have stripped its fate of dignity. I dismiss, therefore, the unworthy criticism that he should have negotiated peace in February, 1865, when Hon. Francis P. Blair came informally to Richmond, and when, as the result of his mission, Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell met President Lincoln and Secretary Seward in conference at Hampton Roads. Reports have been circulated that at that time peace could have been secured upon a basis of a return to the Union, with payment of some sort to Southern owners for their emancipated slaves. There is no foundation for such belief. The idea which led to the conference was that of Mr. Blair—that the Confederate cause being hopeless, the Confederate leaders could be induced to wheel their columns into line with those of the Union army now thundering at their gates, and then march off to
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