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Stephen B. Oates. THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF THIRTEEN PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN THE DRAMA DOD MACHISWYERS $ 5 THE APPROACHING FURY VOICES OF THE STORM , 1820-1861 " This book powerfully re - creates some of the ...
Stephen B. Oates. THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF THIRTEEN PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN THE DRAMA DOD MACHISWYERS $ 5 THE APPROACHING FURY VOICES OF THE STORM , 1820-1861 " This book powerfully re - creates some of the ...
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... Civil War ( 1994 ) Portrait of America ( 2 vols . , 6th edition , 1994 ) Biography as History ( 1991 ) William Faulkner , The Man and the Artist : A Biography ( 1987 ) Biography as High Adventure : Life - Writers Speak on Their Art ...
... Civil War ( 1994 ) Portrait of America ( 2 vols . , 6th edition , 1994 ) Biography as History ( 1991 ) William Faulkner , The Man and the Artist : A Biography ( 1987 ) Biography as High Adventure : Life - Writers Speak on Their Art ...
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... - Biography . 3. United States - History - Civil War , 1861-1865 - Causes . I. Title . E338.025 1997 973.5 - dc20 ISBN 0-06-092885-9 ( pbk . ) 04 05 10 9 87 96-31965 To the memory of my father , STEVEN THEODORE OATES.
... - Biography . 3. United States - History - Civil War , 1861-1865 - Causes . I. Title . E338.025 1997 973.5 - dc20 ISBN 0-06-092885-9 ( pbk . ) 04 05 10 9 87 96-31965 To the memory of my father , STEVEN THEODORE OATES.
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... Civil War . It is told from the viewpoints of thirteen principal players in the drama , from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final ...
... Civil War . It is told from the viewpoints of thirteen principal players in the drama , from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final ...
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... Civil War . I also drew inspiration from Hal Holbrook's one - man portrayal of Mark Twain , Mark Twain Tonight !, and Julie Harris's staged imper- sonation of Emily Dickinson , The Belle of Amherst , both of which showed me the power ...
... Civil War . I also drew inspiration from Hal Holbrook's one - man portrayal of Mark Twain , Mark Twain Tonight !, and Julie Harris's staged imper- sonation of Emily Dickinson , The Belle of Amherst , both of which showed me the power ...
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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?