Author: Henry Winter Davis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-13

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781333213923

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. H. Winter Davis, of Maryland, on Mr. Corwin's Report: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1861 Sir, I know that these propositions will be received with a shrug of the shoulders, and a suggestion that they are not satis factory, by gentlemen of the South. But, sir, I tell them that if they do not satisfy them, they will satisfy the people and that they will find out before they are many months older. The great State of Virginia has told them within the last three days that the heart of the people of the commonwealth still beats true to this Union; and though they may for a moment he deluded, they cannot be forced into revolutionary violence for the difference between the measures of the majority and the minority of the 'committee. 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.