Canadian Public Opinion on the American Civil WarColumbia University, 1926 - 237 頁 |
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Albans Alexander Tilloch Galt American Civil American Civil War annexation annexationists Anti-Slavery aroused attitude believed Britain British America British government British North American British Provinces Brunswick Canada West Canadian government Cartier CHIG CHIG UNIV claimed commercial Confederate Conservative newspaper Consul declared defence despatch duties East England favor federal Fenians force French Canadians fugitive Globe Governor-General Halifax hostile January Journal Leader legislature Letters Liberal Lord Elgin Lord Lyons loyalty Macdonald Maritime Provinces Mason and Slidell ment MICHI Militia Bill Minister Monck Montreal Gazette mother country negroes neutrality North American Provinces Northern Nova Scotia October opinion Parliament party political press of Canada Quebec raid Reciprocity Treaty repeal republican RSITY Secretary secure Seward ship Sir Edmund Head SITY Skelton slave slavery South Southern sympathy tariff tion Toronto Trent Trent affair troops union United Empire Loyalists United States government UNIV CHIG UNIVE UNIV vessels Washington
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第 61 頁 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
第 77 頁 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
第 113 頁 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
第 42 頁 - I do not think that that time is yet approaching. But let us make them as far as possible fit to govern themselves ; let us give them, as far as we can, the capacity of ruling their own affairs ; let them increase in wealth and population ; and, whatever may happen, we of this great empire shall have the consolation of saying that we have contributed to the happiness of the world.
第 177 頁 - On Lake Ontario, to one vessel, not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. •' On the upper lakes, to two vessels, not exceeding like burden each, and armed with like force.
第 49 頁 - Island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore ; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those, colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
第 43 頁 - You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire.
第 40 頁 - American gentlemen, there was not a man who signed that manifesto who had any more serious idea of seeking annexation with the United States than a petulant child who strikes his nurse has of deliberately murdering her.
第 197 頁 - I make the assertion that no consideration of finance, no question of balance for or against them, upon interchange of commodities, can have any influence upon the loyalty of the inhabitants of the British Provinces, or tend in the slightest degree to alienate the affections of the people from their country, their institutions, their Government and their QUEEN. There is not a...
第 55 頁 - Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the imperial government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.