The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially 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"A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially 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 "--T.p. |
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... favor their readers with speeches of generals and chiefs to their soldiers on the eve of battle , and on other memorable occasions ; which , however charac- teristic and fitting , are often of questionable authenticity . Modern history ...
... favor their readers with speeches of generals and chiefs to their soldiers on the eve of battle , and on other memorable occasions ; which , however charac- teristic and fitting , are often of questionable authenticity . Modern history ...
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... favor of negroes for American slaves , in contradiction to the Indians , negroes began to be poured into the West Indies . " It had been proposed to allow four for each emigrant . Deliberate calculation fixed the number esteemed ...
... favor of negroes for American slaves , in contradiction to the Indians , negroes began to be poured into the West Indies . " It had been proposed to allow four for each emigrant . Deliberate calculation fixed the number esteemed ...
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... favor and patronage of the Crown , it must have perished in its infancy . But the climate of tide - water Virginia is ge- nial , the soil remarkably fertile and facile , the timber abundant and ex- cellent , while its numerous bays and ...
... favor and patronage of the Crown , it must have perished in its infancy . But the climate of tide - water Virginia is ge- nial , the soil remarkably fertile and facile , the timber abundant and ex- cellent , while its numerous bays and ...
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... favor : nevertheless , I am devising means for manumit- ting many of them , and for cutting off the entail of slavery . Great powers oppose me , -the laws and customs of my country , my own and the avarice of my countrymen . What will ...
... favor : nevertheless , I am devising means for manumit- ting many of them , and for cutting off the entail of slavery . Great powers oppose me , -the laws and customs of my country , my own and the avarice of my countrymen . What will ...
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... favor of the common Confederacy . This consummation was , for the most part , seasonably and cheerfully agreed to . Connecticut made a moderate reser- vation of wild lands assured to her by her charter in what is now North- ern Ohio ...
... favor of the common Confederacy . This consummation was , for the most part , seasonably and cheerfully agreed to . Connecticut made a moderate reser- vation of wild lands assured to her by her charter in what is now North- ern Ohio ...
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