The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Volume 7John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart Louisiana Historical Society., 1925 - Louisiana |
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Page 117 - This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying, "Now is the time.
Page 596 - the right of the people to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Page 116 - Broken eggs cannot be mended; but Louisiana has nothing to do now but to take her place in the Union as it was, barring the already broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union...
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Page 248 - November, they shall be allowed two hours for dinner; and from the first day of November to the first day of May.
Page 449 - January 23, 1861, and on January 26, 1861, the ordinance of secession was adopted by a vote of 112 yeas to 17 nays, the yeas being increased after the vote had been announced by the vote of Alexander Mouton, the President, to 113.
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