 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...and led by Horace Greeley. Three days after the election the New York Tribune, in a leading article, said: "If the cotton States sball decide that they...than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. . . . Whenever a considerable... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...after the election the New York Tribune, in a leading article, said : " If the cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. . . . Whenever a considerable... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...after the election the New York Tribune, in a leading article, said : " If the cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. . . . Whenever a considerable... | |
 | Horatio King - United States - 1895 - 464 pages
...after Lincoln's election the New York Tribune said : " 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. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. . . . We must ever resist... | |
 | Horatio King - United States - 1895 - 438 pages
...nullify or defy the laws thereof. To withdraw from the Union is quite another matter; and whenever any considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coereire measures designed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic where one section is... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and we do not see how one... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 588 pages
...States. Greeley's paper, The Tribune, made this declaration on November 9 " If the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. . . . Whenever a considerable... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Grady - Secession - 1899 - 488 pages
...abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious; and. if the cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless : and we do not see how... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Antislavery movements - 1899 - 492 pages
...non-resistance ; on November 9, 1860, his New York "Tribune "-declared that " if the cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace." Extremists like William Lloyd Garrison of course were delighted at the opportunity to free the Union... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 814 pages
...alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious; and if Cotton States decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and we do not see how one... | |
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... if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. 
