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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... BECAUSE THE FRIEND OF MANKIND . This Record of a Nation's Struggle UP FROM DARKNESS AND BONDAGE TO LIGHT AND LIBERTY . IS REGARDFULLY , GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PRELIMINARY EGOTISM . No one can realize more vividly than.
... BECAUSE THE FRIEND OF MANKIND . This Record of a Nation's Struggle UP FROM DARKNESS AND BONDAGE TO LIGHT AND LIBERTY . IS REGARDFULLY , GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR . PRELIMINARY EGOTISM . No one can realize more vividly than.
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... liberty to devote to this . I shall labor constantly to guard against Mr. Pol- lard's chief error - that of supposing that all the heroism , devotedness , humanity , chivalry , evinced in the contest , were displayed on one side ; all ...
... liberty to devote to this . I shall labor constantly to guard against Mr. Pol- lard's chief error - that of supposing that all the heroism , devotedness , humanity , chivalry , evinced in the contest , were displayed on one side ; all ...
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... 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- men of the ...
... 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- men of the ...
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... liberty , John Hampden had not yet poured out hie blood on the battle - field , nor Alger- non Sidney laid his head on the block . The negroes , uncouth and repulsive , could speak no word intel- ligible to British or Colonial ears ...
... liberty , John Hampden had not yet poured out hie blood on the battle - field , nor Alger- non Sidney laid his head on the block . The negroes , uncouth and repulsive , could speak no word intel- ligible to British or Colonial ears ...
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... liberty we contend for ( and which we pray the Almighty to continue to the latest posterity ) upon a very wrong foundation , We therefore resolve at all There are six resolutions in all . The first times to use our utmost efforts for ...
... liberty we contend for ( and which we pray the Almighty to continue to the latest posterity ) upon a very wrong foundation , We therefore resolve at all There are six resolutions in all . The first times to use our utmost efforts for ...
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