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Stephen B. Oates. PREFACE This is the story of the coming of the American Civil War . It is told from the viewpoints ... Americans acted according to what they thought was true . Their perception of events , therefore , played a crucial ...
Stephen B. Oates. PREFACE This is the story of the coming of the American Civil War . It is told from the viewpoints ... Americans acted according to what they thought was true . Their perception of events , therefore , played a crucial ...
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... American historians of all time , wove historical data into graphic scenes and simulated dia- logue in his widely acclaimed work of nonfiction , The Emergence of Lincoln . * Like Nevins , I believe that a little fact - based creativity ...
... American historians of all time , wove historical data into graphic scenes and simulated dia- logue in his widely acclaimed work of nonfiction , The Emergence of Lincoln . * Like Nevins , I believe that a little fact - based creativity ...
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... American name . This I learned from George Wythe , a gentleman of the Enlightenment , a signer of the Declaration of Independence , and a mentor of Thomas Jefferson and many other notable Virginians . I fell under Mr. Wythe's spell ...
... American name . This I learned from George Wythe , a gentleman of the Enlightenment , a signer of the Declaration of Independence , and a mentor of Thomas Jefferson and many other notable Virginians . I fell under Mr. Wythe's spell ...
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... America acknowledges the existence of slavery to be an evil , which while it deprives the slave of the best gift of heaven , in the end injures the master too , by laying waste his lands , enabling him to live indolently , and thus ...
... America acknowledges the existence of slavery to be an evil , which while it deprives the slave of the best gift of heaven , in the end injures the master too , by laying waste his lands , enabling him to live indolently , and thus ...
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... America . Lucretia and I could be seen at Olympian Springs , a fashionable resort near Lexington , where wealthy planters met for mint juleps , billiards , cards , and the soothing comfort of the medicinal baths . Of all my possessions ...
... America . Lucretia and I could be seen at Olympian Springs , a fashionable resort near Lexington , where wealthy planters met for mint juleps , billiards , cards , and the soothing comfort of the medicinal baths . Of all my possessions ...
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Page 227 - 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 430 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 230 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered...
Page 342 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 163 - Americans, South as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension " that the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw.
Page 200 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 243 - I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position — discarding our standard that we have left us.
Page 255 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?