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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], One Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
r representatives of the city would, by their votes, declare to be in their opinion a violation of the will of the city to oppose. This is a position I prefer not to be placed in. I recognize fully, sir, under our system of Government the duty of the representative to obey the constituent will or resign. Obey that will when it would require me to vote for the bill in question though it were the will of a clear majority, or even of the whole constitutional body, I would not. I view it as a Pandora's box, full to the brim of evils and suffering to the whole country — but most of all of calamity and distress unspeakable to this city. I will not contribute to lift its fatal lid. My reasons it would not be proper or becoming here and now to enter into. I conclude, therefore, to resign my seat. I part from you at a moment of great interest — when the two great antagonistic systems of Force and of Moderation stand face to face, and are about rushing together in fearful conflict. In
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
uced to take this step by the resignation of Mr. Randolph, who had considered himself instructed by the Saturday night meeting to vote for the maximum bill, and preferred to retire rather than obey. The farewell speech of Mr. Robertson was full of eloquence and feeling. He recognized the right of the constituency to instruct the representative, and the duty of the representative to obey or resign. He had chosen the latter alternative rather than vote for this bill, which he regarded as a Pandora's box filled to the brim with unutterable misery to this country, and more especially to his constituency. He would never be the man to assist in raising that fatal lid. When he had concluded his speech and retired from the House, Mr. Gilmer, of Pittsylvania, offered a resolution to request him to withdraw his resignation, which was carried by acclamation — the highest, tribute ever paid, we believe, by the members of a legislative body to the worth of one of their associates. The Speaker