 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 636 pages
...States consider the value of the Union debatable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay, we hold with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of...oppressive or injurious; and if the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insitt on letting them go... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and if the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, tee insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may he a revolutionary one, but it exists,... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...their treasonable design!,'' and — HERE IS THE EVIDENCE. "If the cotton states shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them gain peace. The right to iicede-mny be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. * * * We must... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - African-American soldiers - 1865 - 468 pages
...expel him out of the Eepublican party for such sentiments. "If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on the letting them go in peace. The right to secede may bo a rcvoUttionary one, but it exists nevertheless."... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...and Famine sitting at the fireside.* • (From the New York Tribune at Nov. 26, and Dec. 17, IS60.) " We hold with Jefferson to the inalienable right of...oppressive or injurious, and if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1866 - 290 pages
...Lincoln's election, that organ uttered the sentiments: "If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, "we insist on letting them go in peace. ******* We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify or defy the laws... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...and Famine sitting at the fireside.* * (From the New fork Tribune of Nov. 28, and Dec. 17, 1860.) " We hold with Jefferson to the inalienable right of...oppressive or injurious, and if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go... | |
 | 1867 - 616 pages
...words as these, in the Tribune of November 9, 1860 : — " If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on the letting them go in peace." And this of November 26, 1860 : — " If the cotton States unitedly... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 866 pages
...debatable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay: we hold with Jefferson, to the unalienable right of Communities to alter or abolish forms of...decide that they can do better out of the Union than in tt, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 872 pages
...debatable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay : we hold with Jefferson, to the unalienable right of Communities to alter or abolish forms of...States shall decide that they can do better out of tlie Union tJian in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary... | |
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... if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. 
