Speech Of Hon M R H Garnett Of Virginia

Author : Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333106713
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Speech of Hon. M. R. H. Garnett, of Virginia, on the State of the Union written by Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. M. R. H. Garnett, of Virginia, on the State of the Union: Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 16, 1861 In years past, the anti-slavery party had, after many vicissitudes of for ture, broken down the great historic party of the Whigs, and the even stronger, though more ephemeral, organization of the Know Nothings; but now it has burst through the last line of our defences, and, routing the Democratic forces, it has seized the sceptre of American empire - the object of its long ambition, of its patient toil. Under the name of Republicans, it has obtained every elec toral vote, except three, in the eighteen non-slaveholding States, against and over the unanimous voice of the fifteen slaveholding States. Nor is its major ity in electoral votes only. Its popular vote is one million eight hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight, against one million five hun dred and seventy-four-thousand and ninety-one. It has a plurality of the pop ular vote in Oregon and California, and an absolute majority in every northern State this side of the Rocky Mountains except gallant New Jersey, where alone it was beaten. Nor is this strength a thing of yesterday - a summer cloud which we may hope will pass away as rapidly as it gathered. Since the anti-slavery candidate, Birney, received seven thousand and fifty-nine votes in.1840, each presidential election has shown a steady growth in the party vote, .e\icept in 1852, when it met an accidental and temporary check. The intermediate State. Elections show the same progression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.