Identifier: minutesucv190708unit (find matches)
Title: Minutes U.C.V
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans. cn Mickle, William English, b. 1846. 2n Harris, Nathaniel Edwin, 1846-1929. The Civil War (OCoLC)4539048 3n United Confederate Veterans. Convention (1889 : New Orleans, La.). Proceedings of the convention for organization, and adoption of the constitution of the United Confederate Veterans (OCoLC)11772606 3n United Confederate Veterans. The flags of the Confederate States of America (DLC) 07028612 (OCoLC)1845883 1n
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Publisher: New Orleans, La., United Confederate Veterans
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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iicii as any other man,am in favor ol having the su()erior position assigned lt«) (liewliite man. Again we ask, is there any difference in principle betweenwhat is liere said ))y J\lr. Lincoln and what was said by )\(r.Stephens in his famous conuustone speech? And notwithstanding, Mr. Lincoln issued his Emancipa-tion Pi-o(damation eighteen months latei-, lie said in his tirstinaugural: I have no ))uri)ose, directly or indiriHfly, to interfere withthe institution of slavery in the States whcwe it exists. 1 bv-lieve I have no lawliil right to do so. and 1 have no inclina-tion to do so. (^oidd he have used sirongir language to show that hebelieved, not only in the legality (d the i)osition ol* the Southon th(; subject ol slavery, but that he believed in tilt; j)roj)rivtyof that ))ositi()n as well? Mr. Toombs said in a speech delivervd in Boston inIS,)(■): .1 !,.«.! J-^r >f;!Ofi- ■);! -j) :•-?/ f>iu-;- M-i y;f :: > ,i;^; ;): f-; ;!■ ;n A.: I -m if /t./f !■.!,. .1..fr;
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M % 76 Seventeenth Reimion, Richmond, May 30-June 3, 1907. The white is the superior, and the blaek the inferior,and that subordination, with or without law, will be the statusof the African in this mixed soeiety. Therefore, it is to tin;interest of both, and especially to the black race, that thisstatus should be fixed, controlled and protected by law. And this is just as true to-day as it was when thisstatement was made )>y this great statesman in 1856. But there is this remarkable fact, in connection with slav-ery and its relation to the war, which we have not seen else-where referred to, and which is, to our mind, a conclusiverefidation of the charge that the continuation or the extinction,of slavery had any influence \\hatever on the conduct of theSouthern people, and especially that of the Confederate sol-dier in that Avar. The writer belonged to one of the three companies inthe army, the personnel of which is so vividly described by tlu^author of Four l^ears Tender Marse Rob

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