Identifier: historyofgreatre00kett (find matches)
Title: History of the great rebellion, from its commencement to its close, giving an account of its origin, the secession of the southern states, and the formation of the Confederate government, the concentration of the military and financial resources of the federal government ... together with sketches of the lives of all the eminent statesmen and military and naval commanders, with a full and complete index. From official sources
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Kettell, Thomas Prentice
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins Cincinnati, F. A. Howe
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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State that has been admitted as a slave State into the Unioosince the adoption of the Constitution, has been admitted in direct violation of thatConstitution. The Church, by being endowed with political power, with its convents, its schoda, ♦.John W. Phelps was born In Vermont, in 1813,grailuated at West Point in 1836, as second lieu-tenant of ai-lillery, and became first lieutenantin 163S. lie commanded his company in Mexi-co with distinction at the battles of Contreras andChtirnbiiseo, was made captain in 1S50, and re-Bigned in 1859. When the war broke out he wasmade eolonel of the First Vermout volunteers, and soon after brigadier-goncral of vnlunteem.He took part in the Ship Island ex()e(lition. and iathe expeilition o^aiast New Orleans, in the springof IbOi, but bavins become involved in a disputewith General Utitler. with regard to the dispositioato be made of the negroes who sought the pro-tection of the United States flag, he resigned biicommissiou Jul/ SI, 1S62. Uttslrarei,
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^^SS SOlef. 206 HISTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION. its immense landed wealth, its associations, secret and open, became the ruling powerof the State, and thus occasioned a war of more strife and bloodshed, probably, thanany other war which has desolated the earth. Slavery is still less susceptible of political character than was the Church. It isas fit at this moment for the luinber-room of the past as were, in 1793, the landedwealth, the exclusive privilege, &c., of the Catholic Church in France. It behooves us to consider, as a self-governing people, bred and reared and prac-tised in the habits of self-government, whether we cannot, whether we viight not,revolutionize slavery out of existence, without the necessity of aconllict of arms likethat of the French Revolution. * * * * That it (free labor) is the right, the capital the inheri- tance, the hope of the poor man everywhere; that it is especially the right of fivemillions of our fellow-countrymen in the Slave States, as well as

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