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Africa (search for this): chapter 6
ace, and the institution of slavery. Finding African labor unsuited to their climate, they had exties for their population, by the exclusion of African labor; and the contest, which began from the hether the State which grew up should exclude African labor or not. The latter subject was apparentxercise the discretion of determining whether African labor should have place in the State there gra new State, as to its admitting or excluding African labor; because the moment it becomes a State,and leaves it, if it sees fit, to expel every African from its borders. The South saw clearly enoubecame a sovereign State; and that, meantime, African labor and white labor should enjoy common andill grant, when he understands the case, that African slavery is not the cause, but only the occasiin the general, a better recompense than the African could win as a free negro, is the justificatie land; to hurl back the prosperous and happy African race to barbarism, crime, and misery; to turn
Jefferson (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
of 1859, the first angry drops of the deluge of blood which was approaching, fell upon the soil of Virginia. The event known as the John Brown Raid occurred at Harper's Ferry, in which that Border assassin endeavored to excite a servile insurrection and civil war, from that point. He and all his accomplices, save one, were either slain, or expiated their crime upon the scaffold. As his rescue was loudly threatened, a military force was mustered at Charleston, the seat of justice for Jefferson county, to protect the officers of the law in the exercise of their functions. Virginia then had scarcely any regular force, except the cadets of her military school. They with their officers were accordingly ordered to this place; and Major Jackson went with them, leading his battery of light pieces. His command, while there, was conspicuous for its perfect drill and subordination; and he diligently improved their time, in manoeuvring them upon the roughest ground to be selected in that b
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
It is not important that the historian should decide whether the advocates of immediate or of co-operative secession were right. The purpose to coerce South Carolina illegally was, at once, indicated by the retention of the strongest work commanding her chief city and harbor, Fort Sumter; and the manner in which this threatening act was accompanied, aggravated the indignation of the people. On the 9th of January, 1861, Mississippi left the Union; Alabama and Florida followed on the 11th; Georgia on the 20th; Louisiana on the 26th; and Texas on the 1st of February. On the 9th of February, a Provisional Government of the six seceding States was instituted at Montgomery, in Alabama, with Jefferson Davis for President, and Alexander H. Stephens for Vice-President. Meantime the border Slave States, headed by Virginia, while declaring that they would not remain passive spectators of an attempt to chastise the seceding States for thus exercising their unquestionable right, continued
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
hat the Federal Government ought to continue what it was in the purer days of Washington and Jefferson, unambitious in its claims of jurisdiction, simple and modest ieir ambassadors, to devise some terms of mutual concession. This body met in Washington, February 4th, and the members of Congress from the Border States continued torder lay under the muzzles of the cannon which frowned from the ramparts of Washington, and it was plain. to friend and foe, thai her smiling fields must be the chhe first aggressors. The first act of war was committed by the Government at Washington against South Carolina, when fortresses intended lawfully only for her protecoffice as President, in March 1861, Commissioners from the South proceeded to Washington, to urge a peaceable separation, and to negotiate for the transfer of Governmoffender for acts of self-defence, which the wicked designs of the tyranny at Washington justified more and more every day. All the pretexts of coercion have thus
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 6
o be oppressed with entire success. After a threatening contest in 1820, concerning the admission of Missouri as a slave State, she was received as such; but the South unwisely permitted her entrance to be coupled with an enactment, that thenceforward all territory to the north of the Southern boundary of that State, latitude 36° 30‘, must be settled by white labor, while the remnant to the south of it might be settled by slave-labor. But in 1849, upon the acquisition of new territory from Mexico, the State of California was immediately closed against the South, though lying in part south of that line; and the intention was boldly declared thenceforward to engross the whole territory for the North. So flagrant a wrong, coupled with the perpetual agitation of abolition in the States, and the perpetual, unrestrained theft of slaves by Northern interlopers, naturally inflamed the resistance of the South to an alarming height. After many discussions, a delusive pacification was made, c
Flodden Field (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
th O'Brien, warning his race against the unhallowed enterprise, declares that the Moloch of Federal ambition has already sacrificed two hundred thousand Irishmen to it. And still, as the flaming sword of the South mows down these hireling invaders, fresh hordes throng the shores. Last, our country has to wage this strife, only on these cruel terms, that the blood of her chivalrous sons shall be matched against the sordid streams of this cloaca populorum. In the words of Lord Lindsay, at Flodden Field, we must play our Rose Nobles of gold, against crooked sixpences. So that the Confederate States, while, in truth, fighting for the cause of the world, have the whole world to fight against. But how has their heroism been regarded from without? It must be declared (and this fact completes the grandeur of their attitude), that while thus bleeding for the common behoof of mankind, they have received aid from none, even idle sympathy from few, and only neglect and injustice from the go
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
was, in fact, slavish co-operation with their enemies; the one, on the plea that the military highway to the tyrants' capital lay through her heart; and the other, on the ground that one-third of her border was only separated by a great river from the assailants! The defection of Kentucky left Virginia exposed on three sides to her invaders, and one of these the sea, vexed with the countless keels of the enemy; while his mercenaries had stolen, and now held her greatest place of arms, Fortress Monroe, which commanded the approach to the wharves of her chief sea-port and her capital city. Her border lay under the muzzles of the cannon which frowned from the ramparts of Washington, and it was plain. to friend and foe, thai her smiling fields must be the chief arena for trampling armies. But these men did not quail on account of this; having taken counsel only of God and the right, Virginia stepped into the imminent deadly breach, baring her own fair bosom to the fiercest strokes o
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the State which grew up should exclude African labor or not. The latter subject was apparently disposed of in the Kansas-Nebraska law, the favorite project of Senator Douglas. But no sooner was this law passed, than the South found that, while i an instance of insubordination, sufficient of itself to justify the secession of the South.) But more: under the Kansas-Nebraska law, the practical question immediately emerged: How, and when, the people settling upon a common territory should exercnction of the African slave-trade. Hence, it well knew, that, in claiming the constitutional construction of the Kansas-Nebraska law, it was making a demand which could save it nothing but its rights; and that, practically, every territory, fertile , to be presented for the votes of their party. The two sections then pressed their rival interpretations of the Kansas-Nebraska law, which had been left ambiguous by the similar caucus in Cincinnati, four years before. The Democrats of the South d
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
decide whether the advocates of immediate or of co-operative secession were right. The purpose to coerce South Carolina illegally was, at once, indicated by the retention of the strongest work commanding her chief city and harbor, Fort Sumter; and the manner in which this threatening act was accompanied, aggravated the indignation of the people. On the 9th of January, 1861, Mississippi left the Union; Alabama and Florida followed on the 11th; Georgia on the 20th; Louisiana on the 26th; and Texas on the 1st of February. On the 9th of February, a Provisional Government of the six seceding States was instituted at Montgomery, in Alabama, with Jefferson Davis for President, and Alexander H. Stephens for Vice-President. Meantime the border Slave States, headed by Virginia, while declaring that they would not remain passive spectators of an attempt to chastise the seceding States for thus exercising their unquestionable right, continued in the Union, and made strenuous efforts at co
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ediate defence. At the head of the latter was the State of South Carolina. Immediately after Lincoln's election was known, operative secession were right. The purpose to coerce South Carolina illegally was, at once, indicated by the retention of r her justification as clear as the sunlight. The State of South Carolina had been soliciting, first of Mr. Buchanan and theFort Sumter, the mask was removed, and the Governor of South Carolina was bluntly informed that it should be done, peaceablyf a shadow of law from Congress, declaring war against South Carolina and the Confederate Government, and calling upon the S was committed by the Government at Washington against South Carolina, when fortresses intended lawfully only for her protec in Europe. It was on December 20, 1860, that the State of South Carolina, by the unanimous vote of a Convention, called by reachery greatly incensed them; for the authorities of South Carolina had received a pledge from President Buchanan that the
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