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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... passed - Georgia fol . lows so do Alabama , Florida , Mississippi , Louis- iana , and Texas - Arkansas , North Carolina , Vir- ginia , Missouri , Tennessee , Kentucky , Maryland and Delaware , refuse to do likewise - The Secessionists a ...
... passed - Georgia fol . lows so do Alabama , Florida , Mississippi , Louis- iana , and Texas - Arkansas , North Carolina , Vir- ginia , Missouri , Tennessee , Kentucky , Maryland and Delaware , refuse to do likewise - The Secessionists a ...
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... passed , was soon exhausted by the unskillful and thriftless cultivation of the Eighteenth Century . Though one - third of the labor of the country was probably devoted to the cutting of timber , the axe - helve was but a pudding ...
... passed , was soon exhausted by the unskillful and thriftless cultivation of the Eighteenth Century . Though one - third of the labor of the country was probably devoted to the cutting of timber , the axe - helve was but a pudding ...
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... passed in a nar- rower round than ours , and may well seem to us tame , limited , monot- onous ; but the sun which warmed him was identical with ours ; the breezes which refreshed him were tween fifteen and sixty years of age was a ...
... passed in a nar- rower round than ours , and may well seem to us tame , limited , monot- onous ; but the sun which warmed him was identical with ours ; the breezes which refreshed him were tween fifteen and sixty years of age was a ...
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... passed a further act , to the same effect , but more sweeping in its provisions and severe in its penalties . On the 2d of March , 1807 - twenty - three days before the passage of the British act - Congress passed one which than ships ...
... passed a further act , to the same effect , but more sweeping in its provisions and severe in its penalties . On the 2d of March , 1807 - twenty - three days before the passage of the British act - Congress passed one which than ships ...
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... passed an act ceding , on certain con- ditions , her western territory - now constituting the State of Tennessee- to the Federal Union . She exacted and required Congress to assent to this , among other conditions : " Provided always ...
... passed an act ceding , on certain con- ditions , her western territory - now constituting the State of Tennessee- to the Federal Union . She exacted and required Congress to assent to this , among other conditions : " Provided always ...
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