The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1 |
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... republican liberty and of legalized equality , even among the nominally free . Dioge- nes , with his lantern , might have vainly looked , through many a long day , among the followers of Marius , or Catiline , or Cæsar , for a speci ...
... republican liberty and of legalized equality , even among the nominally free . Dioge- nes , with his lantern , might have vainly looked , through many a long day , among the followers of Marius , or Catiline , or Cæsar , for a speci ...
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... republican forms , and shall admit no person to be a citizen who holds an he- reditary title . Mr. Howell . CONNECT ... Mr. Sherman .. Mr. Wadsworth ... ay , NEW YORK.Mr. De Witt ... Mr. Paine ... N. JERSEY..Mr . Dick . PENNSYL ... Mr ...
... republican forms , and shall admit no person to be a citizen who holds an he- reditary title . Mr. Howell . CONNECT ... Mr. Sherman .. Mr. Wadsworth ... ay , NEW YORK.Mr. De Witt ... Mr. Paine ... N. JERSEY..Mr . Dick . PENNSYL ... Mr ...
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... republican , and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles . And so far as it can be consistent with the general inter- est of the confederacy , such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period , and when there may ...
... republican , and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles . And so far as it can be consistent with the general inter- est of the confederacy , such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period , and when there may ...
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... republican bondage , and in the confident hope . that the day would soon dawn that would rid themselves of the burden and their country of the curse and shame of human chattelhood . ' Had they been asked to unite in any of a striking ...
... republican bondage , and in the confident hope . that the day would soon dawn that would rid themselves of the burden and their country of the curse and shame of human chattelhood . ' Had they been asked to unite in any of a striking ...
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... Republicans into power . But all this was now morally certain to be reversed . France , planting herself , as it were ... republican France . It was instinc - pathy with and admiration for repub- tively and universally felt that even the ...
... Republicans into power . But all this was now morally certain to be reversed . France , planting herself , as it were ... republican France . It was instinc - pathy with and admiration for repub- tively and universally felt that even the ...
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