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... teaching Colored Children against the Law . - Great Excitement . - The Law finally re- pealed . An Act by the ... Teachers and afterward Gov- ernor of the Colony of Cape Palmas , Liberia . - First Primary School for Colored Chil- dren ...
... teaching Colored Children against the Law . - Great Excitement . - The Law finally re- pealed . An Act by the ... Teachers and afterward Gov- ernor of the Colony of Cape Palmas , Liberia . - First Primary School for Colored Chil- dren ...
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... Teacher . — Is ordained to the Gospel Ministry and becomes a Preacher and Missionary Teacher . His Settlement as Pastor in Indiana and Ohio . — Is given the Title of Doctor of Divinity by the Tennessee College . His Influence as a ...
... Teacher . — Is ordained to the Gospel Ministry and becomes a Preacher and Missionary Teacher . His Settlement as Pastor in Indiana and Ohio . — Is given the Title of Doctor of Divinity by the Tennessee College . His Influence as a ...
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... teach him that he was born , like Moses , to be the deliverer of his race . She would sing to him snatches of wild , rapturous songs , and re- peat portions of prophecy she had learned from the preachers of those times . Nat . listened ...
... teach him that he was born , like Moses , to be the deliverer of his race . She would sing to him snatches of wild , rapturous songs , and re- peat portions of prophecy she had learned from the preachers of those times . Nat . listened ...
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... teachers driven away , and the pupils maltreated . The mobocratic demonstrations in the Northern States were the thermometer of public feeling upon the subject of slavery . The South was , therefore , emboldened ; for the political ...
... teachers driven away , and the pupils maltreated . The mobocratic demonstrations in the Northern States were the thermometer of public feeling upon the subject of slavery . The South was , therefore , emboldened ; for the political ...
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... teachers were either Colored persons whose opportunities of securing an education had been poor , or white persons whose mental qualifications would not encourage them to make an honest living among their own race ; there were noble ...
... teachers were either Colored persons whose opportunities of securing an education had been poor , or white persons whose mental qualifications would not encourage them to make an honest living among their own race ; there were noble ...
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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...