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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 8 (search)
ort. Georgia was permitted to violate the faith of solemn treaties and defy the adjudications of our highest court. South Carolina was put down in a similar attempt: for the will of Andrew Jackson, not the Constitution, was in those years the supreme law of the land. The late Jeremiah Evarts, long the efficient and honored Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who devoted the best of his life to the cause of the Cherokees, has summed up, in a letter to a sympathizing friend, his convictions as to the ultimate cause of the perfidy and oppression of which they were the victims: Without that disregard of human rights which is to be found among slaveholders only, nothing could have been done against the Indians; and without the base surrender of all personal dignity and independence to the capricious mandate of party discipline, the slaveholders would not have received aid enough to carry their point.--Life of Jeremiah Evarts, Boston, 1845, p. 367.
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
ion, 314. Etheridge, Emerson, is threatened with cold steel and bullets, if he speaks for the Union, 484; chosen Clerk of the House, 555. Eustis, captured, with Mason and Slidell, 606. Evans, Robt. J., letter to, from John Adams, 51. Evarts, Jeremiah, on Slavery and Indians, 106. Evarts, Wm. M., of N. Y., at Chicago Con., 321. Everett, Alexander H., his instructions respecting Cuba, 268. Everett, Edward, early pro-Slavery opinions of, 109; extract from his Message as GovernEvarts, Wm. M., of N. Y., at Chicago Con., 321. Everett, Alexander H., his instructions respecting Cuba, 268. Everett, Edward, early pro-Slavery opinions of, 109; extract from his Message as Governor of Massachusetts, 124; his diplomacy with respect to Cuba, 270 to 273; nominated for Vice-President, 319; letter to, from Reverdy Johnson, 858. Ewell, Gen., repulsed at Bull Run, 544. Exports, value of, by 8th Decennial Census, 23. F. Fairfax Court-House, Va., Union cavalry dash into, 533; reoccupied by our forces, 620. Fairfield, Mr., of Me., offers petitions for Abolition in the Federal District, 143. Faneuil Hall, Boston, is refused for a meeting to consider the circumst