i need to find a good quote from the year 1861 for my ap us project! it's been really hard for me to find HELP!
2006-08-26 17:18:17 · 8 answers · asked by j bug 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
thank you everyone!!!
2006-08-26 17:34:04 · update #1
"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms." President Jefferson Davis, 29 April, 1861
2006-08-26 17:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it," President Lincoln
Georgia-born Confederate vice president Alexander H. (Hamilton) Stephens, 49, says in a speech at Savannah March 21 that the United States was created on the false idea that all men are created equal. The Confederacy, he says, "is founded upon exactly the opposite idea: its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the ***** is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
2006-08-27 00:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by Sue S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 22, 1861
This [all men are created equal] is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world, if I can help save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot, than surrender it.
2006-08-27 00:33:00 · answer #3 · answered by Beth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection." - Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861
2006-08-27 00:34:42 · answer #4 · answered by Nited1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.oldwestlibrary.com/CWL/cwquotes.htm#1861
2006-08-27 00:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Chicken Jones 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy do you have some great answers to your question - pick the one you like the best and go for it!@
2006-08-27 01:05:27 · answer #6 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"So this is the little lady who caused all this trouble..."
Abraham Lincoln, when he was introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin")
2006-08-27 00:21:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHARGE--the union troops
2006-08-27 00:27:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋