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... flag . This terrible civil war , this baptism of blood , through which the na- tion has passed , has purified and ennobled it . The soldiers of Grant and Sherman , Thomas and Sheridan , who marched from Cairo to Savannah , from the ...
... flag . This terrible civil war , this baptism of blood , through which the na- tion has passed , has purified and ennobled it . The soldiers of Grant and Sherman , Thomas and Sheridan , who marched from Cairo to Savannah , from the ...
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... flag of truce . This was a sample of the " chivalry ” produced by slavery ! Yet such was the lethargy on the subject , that even such acts of atrocity did not arouse the American people to the barbarism of slavery . It has already been ...
... flag of truce . This was a sample of the " chivalry ” produced by slavery ! Yet such was the lethargy on the subject , that even such acts of atrocity did not arouse the American people to the barbarism of slavery . It has already been ...
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... flag he had sworn to defend . South Caro- lina prepared for an armed collision with the National Gov- She made the tariff the pretext for her revolu- tionary proceedings . Congress , weakly , under the menace of impending war , modified ...
... flag he had sworn to defend . South Caro- lina prepared for an armed collision with the National Gov- She made the tariff the pretext for her revolu- tionary proceedings . Congress , weakly , under the menace of impending war , modified ...
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... flag , and threw the weight of his great influence on the side of the Government , and against the black - hearted and perfidious traitors who so wickedly sought its overthrow . The people of this Nation owe a debt of gratitude to his ...
... flag , and threw the weight of his great influence on the side of the Government , and against the black - hearted and perfidious traitors who so wickedly sought its overthrow . The people of this Nation owe a debt of gratitude to his ...
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... flag of his country . On the morning of the 3d day of March , at five o'clock , the bill finally passed the Senate by a vote of 37 to 14 . Mr. Seward , at a late hour of the night , said to his brother Senators , " The shifting sands of ...
... flag of his country . On the morning of the 3d day of March , at five o'clock , the bill finally passed the Senate by a vote of 37 to 14 . Mr. Seward , at a late hour of the night , said to his brother Senators , " The shifting sands of ...
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