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om time to time to declare, as current exigencies may indicate, what the Constitution was intended to secure and provide. Our flag bears no new device. Upon its folds our principles are written in living light; all proclaiming the constitutional Union, justice, equality, and fraternity of our ocean-bound domain, for a limitless future." [Footnote 14: The words, "within the limits of its constitutional powers," were subsequently added to this resolution, on the suggestion of Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, with the approval of the mover.] [Footnote 15: The speech of the author, delivered on the 7th of May ensuing, in exposition of these resolutions, will be found in Appendix F.] [Footnote 16: In the Democratic Convention, which had been recently held in Charleston. (See the ensuing chapter.)] CHAPTER VII A Retrospect.--Growth of Sectional Rivalry.--The Generosity of Virginia.--Unequal Accessions of Territory.--The Tariff and its Effects.--The Republican Convention of 1860, its Resolutions and its Nominations.--The Democratic Convention at Charleston, its Divisions and Disruption.--The Nominations at Baltimore.--The "Constitutional-Union" Party and its Nominees.--An Effort in Behalf of Agreement declined by Mr. Douglas.--The Election of Lincoln and Hamlin.--Proceedings in the South.--Evidences of Calmness and Deliberation.--Mr. Buchanan's Conservatism and the weakness of his Position.--Republican Taunts.--The "New York Tribune," etc. When, at the close of the war of the Revolution, each of the thirteen colonies that had been engaged in that contest was severally acknowledged by the mother-country, Great Britain, to be a free and independent State, the confederation of those States embraced an area so extensive, with climate and products so various, that rivalries and conflicts of interest soon began to be manifested. It required all the power of wisdom and patriotism, animated by the affection engendered by common sufferings and dangers, to keep these rivalries under restraint, and to effect those compromises which it was fondly hoped would insure the harmony and mutual good offices of each for the benefit of all. It was in this spirit of patriotism and confidence in the continuance of such abiding good will as would for all time preclude hostile aggression, that Virginia ceded, for the use of the confederated States, all that vast extent
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