This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...spirit that should mark historic papers. It may be confidently stated that no case ever occurred where the arbitrary act of General Boyle resulted otherwise than to the advantage of its subject. Another course would have prejudiced his interests, restricted his freedom or perhaps imperilled his life. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...spirit that should mark historic papers. It may be confidently stated that no case ever occurred where the arbitrary act of General Boyle resulted otherwise than to the advantage of its subject. Another course would have prejudiced his interests, restricted his freedom or perhaps imperilled his life. Finally, circumstances, and the progressive developments of the war, led the president to forego his cherished plans in behalf of the loyal people in the "border States" and to practically nullify slavery in Kentucky. General Boyle felt this as a violation of the confidence communicated to him by Mr. Lincoln, and by him extended to his fellow citizens, and resigned.1 1Sumner's irreverent witicism may be recalled: "The President wants both Kentucky and Providence on his side, but in any case, he will keep Kentucky!" Note--The defense of secession, which rests upon each State, in its political entity, has ever appeared illogical, and lacking in magnanimity. If the theory of state's rights is invoked in its support, the course of every Kentuckian, Missourian, and Marylander, who rushed to the support of their friends in the South, is left defenseless, and stands condemned by the argument, for indisputably Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland adhered to the Union. That argument convicts the Morgans and Buckners, the Prices and Marmadukes, and their gallant comrades, as traitors to their States! And this condemnation would extend to citizens of those States whose governments were re-established in their fidelity to the Union. But the right of revolution is unquestionable--it is an extraordinary remedy, and "wholly out of the law--a question of dispositions, and of means, and of probable consequences, rather than of positive...
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