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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... means have been prevented ; that the successive ' compromises , ' whereby it was so long put off , were - however intended - deplorable mistakes , detrimental to our National charac- ter ; -that we ought - so early , at least , as 1819 ...
... means have been prevented ; that the successive ' compromises , ' whereby it was so long put off , were - however intended - deplorable mistakes , detrimental to our National charac- ter ; -that we ought - so early , at least , as 1819 ...
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... means of subsistence , and were unable at once to replace them . Those accepted though precarious avenues to fame and fortune , in which they had found at least competence , were instantly closed , and no new ones seemed to open before ...
... means of subsistence , and were unable at once to replace them . Those accepted though precarious avenues to fame and fortune , in which they had found at least competence , were instantly closed , and no new ones seemed to open before ...
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... means of satisfying , undertook to relieve them- selves from intolerable infestation , and save their families from being turned into the highways , by dis- persing the courts and arresting the enforcement of legal process alto- gether ...
... means of satisfying , undertook to relieve them- selves from intolerable infestation , and save their families from being turned into the highways , by dis- persing the courts and arresting the enforcement of legal process alto- gether ...
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... means intolerable . It is not too much to assume that the men by whose valor and virtue American in- dependence was achieved , and who lived to enjoy , for half a century thereafter , the gratitude of their country , and the honest ...
... means intolerable . It is not too much to assume that the men by whose valor and virtue American in- dependence was achieved , and who lived to enjoy , for half a century thereafter , the gratitude of their country , and the honest ...
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... and whose Sea Islands afforded peculiar facilities for limiting the intercourse of the slaves with each other , and their means of escape to the wilder- ness and to the savages . South Car- olina , 30 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
... and whose Sea Islands afforded peculiar facilities for limiting the intercourse of the slaves with each other , and their means of escape to the wilder- ness and to the savages . South Car- olina , 30 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
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