History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: 1800-1880 |
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... feels as if it were cycles old . The long spectral hand on the clock of American history points to the completion of the second decade since the American slave became an American citizen . How wondrous have been his strides , how mar ...
... feels as if it were cycles old . The long spectral hand on the clock of American history points to the completion of the second decade since the American slave became an American citizen . How wondrous have been his strides , how mar ...
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... feel for a settlement in the Indiana Territory , instead . of seeking , as they are now compelled to do , settlements in other States or countries permitting the introduction of slaves . The condition of the slaves themselves would be ...
... feel for a settlement in the Indiana Territory , instead . of seeking , as they are now compelled to do , settlements in other States or countries permitting the introduction of slaves . The condition of the slaves themselves would be ...
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... feeling are on the march , and will on until the groans of slavery are heard no more in this else happy country . Look over this world's wide page — see the rapid progress of liberal feelings— see the shackles falling from nations who ...
... feeling are on the march , and will on until the groans of slavery are heard no more in this else happy country . Look over this world's wide page — see the rapid progress of liberal feelings— see the shackles falling from nations who ...
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... feel- ing against the other half ; to that unfortunate state of society in which free men regard labor as disgraceful , and slaves shrink from it as a bur- den tyrannically imposed upon them . To that condition of things in which half a ...
... feel- ing against the other half ; to that unfortunate state of society in which free men regard labor as disgraceful , and slaves shrink from it as a bur- den tyrannically imposed upon them . To that condition of things in which half a ...
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... feel the evils thus inflicted than imbruted savages . He denounced the owners of the ship and all the parties in no measured terms , and expressed his deter- mination to ' cover with thick infamy all who were engaged in the trans ...
... feel the evils thus inflicted than imbruted savages . He denounced the owners of the ship and all the parties in no measured terms , and expressed his deter- mination to ' cover with thick infamy all who were engaged in the trans ...
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Page 318 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 232 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 273 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 33 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 273 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 268 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 275 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 242 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
Page 20 - State are unable to protect or from any cause fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 421 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...