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... Prisons . - Increase of the Colored People from 1790-1880.- Negroes susceptible of the Highest Civilization -- 384 CHAPTER XXIII . REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN . - Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution . - The Legal Destruction of ...
... Prisons . - Increase of the Colored People from 1790-1880.- Negroes susceptible of the Highest Civilization -- 384 CHAPTER XXIII . REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN . - Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution . - The Legal Destruction of ...
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... prisoners of war ; their tyrants , as he held , had taken up the sword , and must per- ish by it . This was his view of the great question of slavery . The widow of the late Major George L. Stearns gives the fol- lowing personal ...
... prisoners of war ; their tyrants , as he held , had taken up the sword , and must per- ish by it . This was his view of the great question of slavery . The widow of the late Major George L. Stearns gives the fol- lowing personal ...
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... prisoner , that he should not feel at liberty to walk out , if the doors were left open ; a sense of honor to his jailer ( Captain Acvis ) forbidding any thing of the kind . 1 The italics are his . " Not a litttle anxiety was felt lest ...
... prisoner , that he should not feel at liberty to walk out , if the doors were left open ; a sense of honor to his jailer ( Captain Acvis ) forbidding any thing of the kind . 1 The italics are his . " Not a litttle anxiety was felt lest ...
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... prisoner on the 19th of October , 1859 , and remained until the 7th of November without a change of clothing or medical aid . Forty - two days from the time of his imprison- ment he expiated his crime upon the scaffold — a crime against ...
... prisoner on the 19th of October , 1859 , and remained until the 7th of November without a change of clothing or medical aid . Forty - two days from the time of his imprison- ment he expiated his crime upon the scaffold — a crime against ...
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... prisoner , told Senator Wilson a few days since that he met noth- ing so discouraging as the evident sincerity of those ... prisoners , free or slave , they immediately auction them off ! They did so with those they took from a boat that ...
... prisoner , told Senator Wilson a few days since that he met noth- ing so discouraging as the evident sincerity of those ... prisoners , free or slave , they immediately auction them off ! They did so with those they took from a boat that ...
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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...