History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: 1800-1880 |
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... gave Captain Perry to understand that the color of the skin had nothing to do with a man's qualifications for the navy : " SIR - I have been duly honored with your letters of the twenty- third and twenty - sixth ultimo , and notice your ...
... gave Captain Perry to understand that the color of the skin had nothing to do with a man's qualifications for the navy : " SIR - I have been duly honored with your letters of the twenty- third and twenty - sixth ultimo , and notice your ...
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... gave Him meat ; " thirsty , ' and they gave Him drink ; " a stranger , " and they took Him in ; " naked , " and they clothed Him ; " sick , " and they visited Him ; " in prison , " and they came unto Him . Verily they knew their ...
... gave Him meat ; " thirsty , ' and they gave Him drink ; " a stranger , " and they took Him in ; " naked , " and they clothed Him ; " sick , " and they visited Him ; " in prison , " and they came unto Him . Verily they knew their ...
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... gave the world one of the greatest reformers since Martin Luther . With- out money , social influence , or friends , Garrison lifted again the standard of liberty . He began a lecture tour in which God taught him the magnitude of his ...
... gave the world one of the greatest reformers since Martin Luther . With- out money , social influence , or friends , Garrison lifted again the standard of liberty . He began a lecture tour in which God taught him the magnitude of his ...
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... gave them liberty when he wanted them no longer . ( Loud cheers . ) Let America , in the ful- ness of her pride wave on high her banner of freedom and its blazing stars . I point to her , and say : There is one foul blot upon it : you ...
... gave them liberty when he wanted them no longer . ( Loud cheers . ) Let America , in the ful- ness of her pride wave on high her banner of freedom and its blazing stars . I point to her , and say : There is one foul blot upon it : you ...
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... gave his mag- nificent energies and splendid talents to the organization of the Free - Soil Party , upon the principles he had failed to educate the Whigs to accept . Charles Sumner was in the United States Senate , where " his words ...
... gave his mag- nificent energies and splendid talents to the organization of the Free - Soil Party , upon the principles he had failed to educate the Whigs to accept . Charles Sumner was in the United States Senate , where " his words ...
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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...