Page 2
Here you can see all page revisions and compare the changes have been made in each revision. Left column shows the page title and transcription in the selected revision, right column shows what have been changed. Unchanged text is highlighted in white, deleted text is highlighted in red, and inserted text is highlighted in green color.
11 revisions | UVA Law Library at Mar 28, 2017 07:58 PM | |
---|---|---|
Page 2tion should be final. The fortune of war, past grief are in the deep[bysom?] of the [ ] buried? We are in no condition to prepare, bulk of the people are no permitted to participate,- for it is immaterial comparatively what may happen to me or to any other individuals -, if we are not permitted to participate in the {blessings} advantagesof Union, and of Constitutional liberty, - it would tend only to [ ] [mis]erable delusion, for us to promise, or for you to expect that we should remain quiet [ ] than we {were} are constrained by incaistble force. We are Anglo-Saxons, like yourselves, and you have only to consider what you would do under like circumstances, in order to foreshadow the actions of our people. How the liberties of the South would survive, tied then to the dead cause of {a} disfranchisement in one third of the people of the Country, may well lead a {Northern} Statesman to pause, ere he converts [?],000,000 of a free-born & high-spirited race from [ ] citizens, into soured surfs, always watching for occasions of convulsions & strife. | Page 2tion should be final. The fortune of war, past grief are in the deep[bysom?] of the [ ] buried? We are in no condition to prepare, bulk of the people are no permitted to participate,- for it is immaterial comparatively what may happen to me or to any other individuals -, if we are not permitted to participate in the {blessings} advantagesof Union, and of Constitutional liberty, - it would tend only to [ ] [mis]erable delusion, for as to promise, or for you to expect that we should remain quiet |