Letters on the American Republic, Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors Refuted and Exposed, Volume 4 |
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... United States in the autumn of 1860 , we find the following startling announcement , that the " worst slave state is in ad- vance of England ; " and in a lecture recently delivered by the celebrated novelist Thomas Hughes in the ...
... United States in the autumn of 1860 , we find the following startling announcement , that the " worst slave state is in ad- vance of England ; " and in a lecture recently delivered by the celebrated novelist Thomas Hughes in the ...
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... United States he has been honoured with the achieve- ments of a Moses , although he has not acquired the power of a Pharaoh to let the slaves go . In the next scene , Secretary Chase makes his appearance with his financial goose under ...
... United States he has been honoured with the achieve- ments of a Moses , although he has not acquired the power of a Pharaoh to let the slaves go . In the next scene , Secretary Chase makes his appearance with his financial goose under ...
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... United States , which con- tained the following stanza : - There is a poor blind Samson in the land , Shorn of his strength , and bound in bonds of steel , Who may in some grim revel raise his hand And strike the pillars of the ...
... United States , which con- tained the following stanza : - There is a poor blind Samson in the land , Shorn of his strength , and bound in bonds of steel , Who may in some grim revel raise his hand And strike the pillars of the ...
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... United States , your banner wears Two emblems - one of fame ; Alas ! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame . The white man's liberty in types Stands blazoned on your stars , But what's the meaning of those stripes ? They mean ...
... United States , your banner wears Two emblems - one of fame ; Alas ! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame . The white man's liberty in types Stands blazoned on your stars , But what's the meaning of those stripes ? They mean ...
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... united . " Union was strength , " said they ; " United we stand , divided we fall . " But whilst we have been secure from outward dangers , we have fallen a prey to ruin from the greater 48 ON THE AMERICAN UNION .
... united . " Union was strength , " said they ; " United we stand , divided we fall . " But whilst we have been secure from outward dangers , we have fallen a prey to ruin from the greater 48 ON THE AMERICAN UNION .
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Page 66 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 66 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 50 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...
Page 51 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 6 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Page 222 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Page 78 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause 'shall be delivered up
Page 59 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Page 84 - I should be exceedingly glad to know that there would never be another slave State admitted into the Union ; but I must add, that if slavery shall be kept out of the territories during the territorial existence of any one given territory, and then the people...
Page 83 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...