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A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to ...
A gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky , and was taking them to a farm in the South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to ...
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This I believe of the masses North and South . Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were out of existence .
This I believe of the masses North and South . Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were out of existence .
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It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I acknowledge them ...
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I acknowledge them ...
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The great majority South , as well as North , have human sympathies , of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physical pain . These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest ...
The great majority South , as well as North , have human sympathies , of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physical pain . These sympathies in the bosoms of the Southern people manifest ...
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The South Aushed with triumph and tempted to excess ; the North , betrayed as they believe , brooding on wrong and burning for revenge . One side will provoke , the other resent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses ...
The South Aushed with triumph and tempted to excess ; the North , betrayed as they believe , brooding on wrong and burning for revenge . One side will provoke , the other resent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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