 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...Lincoln, who regarded lawlessness and slavery as twin evils, could only say of John Brown's raid: " That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the...Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same." Seward, it must be recorded, spoke far more sympathetically of him than Lincoln; and far more justly,... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...was so absurd that tlip slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds -with...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orsini's attempt. on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...it was so absunl that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in hig own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, ^nd John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with many attempts related in history, at the assassination...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in hU own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with many attempts related in history, at the assassination...them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little ejse than In his own execution. Graini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...its philosophy, corresponds with many attempts, related in history, at the assassination of Kings und Emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orslni's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon,...Ferry, were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with many attempts, related in history, at the assassination...Emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a Seople till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to berate them. He ventures the attempt, which... | |
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly... 
