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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... , who cannot to - day realize that they ever held opinions and accepted dogmas to which they unhesitatingly subscribed less than ten years ago . There is , then , but one safe and just way to deal with the tenets and positions.
... , who cannot to - day realize that they ever held opinions and accepted dogmas to which they unhesitatingly subscribed less than ten years ago . There is , then , but one safe and just way to deal with the tenets and positions.
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... less than Three Millions , of whom half a million were slaves . This population was mainly settled upon and around the bays , harbors , and inlets , which ir- regularly indent the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean , for a distance of ...
... less than Three Millions , of whom half a million were slaves . This population was mainly settled upon and around the bays , harbors , and inlets , which ir- regularly indent the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean , for a distance of ...
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... less formidable , but kin- dred , and not less real . Our fathers emerged from their arduous , protract- worldly goods . Their country had , for seven years , been traversed and wasted by contending armies , almost from end to end ...
... less formidable , but kin- dred , and not less real . Our fathers emerged from their arduous , protract- worldly goods . Their country had , for seven years , been traversed and wasted by contending armies , almost from end to end ...
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... less curable disorders . In the year 1786 , the legislature of New Hampshire , then sitting at Exeter , was surrounded , evi- dently by preconcert , by a gathering of angry and desperate men , intent on overawing it into an ...
... less curable disorders . In the year 1786 , the legislature of New Hampshire , then sitting at Exeter , was surrounded , evi- dently by preconcert , by a gathering of angry and desperate men , intent on overawing it into an ...
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... less industrious mother - hummed and whirled from morning till night . In the back room , or some convenient appendage , the loom responded day by day to the movements of the busy shuttle , whereby the fleeces of the farmer's flock and ...
... less industrious mother - hummed and whirled from morning till night . In the back room , or some convenient appendage , the loom responded day by day to the movements of the busy shuttle , whereby the fleeces of the farmer's flock and ...
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