 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1879 - 656 páginas
...engaged in this movement ever since I entered political life." Mr. Rhett said : " It (secession) is not produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or the non-execution...matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." Senator Douglas, in his great speech before ten thousand people at Chicago, on the first day of May,... | |
 | 1880 - 698 páginas
...disunionist, declared in the same convention: " It is not anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave Law; it is...matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." The conspiracy, thus exposed by Jackson, and confessed by recent parties to it, was quickened by the... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1881 - 246 páginas
...chief actors, " is not an event of a day. It is not anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave Law. It is...matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." This, with many similar avowals, crowns and completes the otherwise abundant proof that the revolt... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - 1884 - 690 páginas
...engaged in this movement ever since I entered political life." Mr. Rhett said : "It (secession) is not produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or the non-execution...matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." Senator Douglas, in his great speech before ten thousand people at Chicago, on the first day of May,... | |
 | 1885 - 504 páginas
...It is not anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive-Slave Law. It is a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." This was a distinct affirmation, which is corroborated by other and abundant testimony, that the revolt... | |
 | John Hill Aughey - 1888 - 688 páginas
...Mr. Inglis said, " Most of us have had this subject under consideration for twenty years." Mr. Rhctt said, " It is nothing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election...non-execution of the fugitive slave law. It is a matter that has been gathering head for thirty years." Preamble to the Florida ordinance of secession : WHEREAS,... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 páginas
...after the promulgation of the message — " it is not anything produced by the election of Mr. Lincoln, or the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave law. It is a matter which has been gathering for thirty years." Another member (FG Parker) said : " It is no spontaneous effort that has come suddenly... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 424 páginas
...was not the event of a day. It is not," said he, "any thing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the fugitive slave law. It is...matter which has been gathering head for thirty years. The election of Lincoln and Hamlin was the last straw on the back of the camel. But it was not the... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 944 páginas
...you two or three extracts from the speeches made by their leading men in that convention. Mr. Rhett said : " It is nothing produced by Mr. Lincoln's ....matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." Mr. Parker said: "It is no spasmodic effort that h2*s come suddenly upon us, but it has been gradually... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1894 - 584 páginas
...most violent declaimers of his class; "it is not anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the nonexecution of the fugitive slave law. It is...which has been gathering head for thirty years. In regard to the fugitive-slave law, I myself doubted its constitutionality, and doubted it on the floor... | |
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Rhett, who had been for many years in the public service, declared that "the secession of South Carolina was not the event of a day. It is not," said he, "any thing produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the fugitive slave law.... 
