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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
and by these provisions prohibited the negro all entrance into the State? The answer is obvious. What politics could reside in such intrusion? But did he who, in one decade, threw his mantle over the killing of Lovejoy, acquire in the next a right to corroborate his wrath by that of the Almighty? Nor had he not been of counsel for a Kentucky master, seeking to recover fugitive slaves? If slavery was malum per se, how did that master's sin surpass his own? Lincoln's biographer, Mr. Joseph H. Barrett, is much comforted to have such good proof, after all that has been said to the contrary, that he had no objection to a good client with a bad cause. What! Philanthropy could turn coat for a fee! No man has a right to be indifferent to the transgression going on around him. But the transgression which concerns him most nearly is his own. For indifference here, he does not quite compound by bloody instructions for the rest of mankind. Prophecy is relieved of much that were afflicti
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tragedy in Tennessee. (search)
c, except the tap of a single drum.--News men, citizens, and strangers, are all in the dark, and all equally anxious. There is no shouting, no rioting, no dissipation, no bravado — all are conversing calmly, but in low tones, on the all-absorbing topic. There is a large influx of Northerners, whose bearing is somewhat confident, but not bullying. There are rumors of the expected arrival of Northern military, but 'tis doubtful as to the day. It is certain, however, that several thousand have been preliminarily provided for on their arrival the present week. Ten companies of volunteers are already mustered into service, and six more are required by the present demand. The deepest feeling of suspense pervades all, while apparently calm. Henry W. Hoffman has been appointed Collector for the port of Baltimore. E. T. Blamire, of Portsmouth, has been appointed Postmaster at that place. Joseph H. Barrett, of Ohio, has received the appointment of Commissioner of Pensions.