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... regards the rebel States , perhaps it will be found that this war will have a tendency to prepare them for union with us on a firmer founda- tion than in the years that are past . If it destroys slavery , it will destroy the only cause ...
... regards the rebel States , perhaps it will be found that this war will have a tendency to prepare them for union with us on a firmer founda- tion than in the years that are past . If it destroys slavery , it will destroy the only cause ...
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... regard this war for the Union as an imperative necessity . I regard it as a holy war . The sword was never drawn in a more sacred cause , and should never be returned to its scabbard till the end is gained . What shall be done with the ...
... regard this war for the Union as an imperative necessity . I regard it as a holy war . The sword was never drawn in a more sacred cause , and should never be returned to its scabbard till the end is gained . What shall be done with the ...
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... regards , and Christ- ian philanthropy of the white race . He has no power to solve it himself . As he merges into freedom , he must receive his destiny from those at whose hands he receives that freedom . They will fix his position and ...
... regards , and Christ- ian philanthropy of the white race . He has no power to solve it himself . As he merges into freedom , he must receive his destiny from those at whose hands he receives that freedom . They will fix his position and ...
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... regard for truth and all love of country , as to plot the overthrow of the government which was at once the source of power and the safeguard against domestic and foreign foes , they made no provision for such - to them inconceivable ...
... regard for truth and all love of country , as to plot the overthrow of the government which was at once the source of power and the safeguard against domestic and foreign foes , they made no provision for such - to them inconceivable ...
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... regard as the best evidence that they have accomplished one good result . Though now beforehand with me , I assure you it has been in my thoughts repeatedly since this wicked re- bellion began , to take the pen to you for a few of the ...
... regard as the best evidence that they have accomplished one good result . Though now beforehand with me , I assure you it has been in my thoughts repeatedly since this wicked re- bellion began , to take the pen to you for a few of the ...
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Discourse on the Aspects of the War: Delivered in the Indiana-Place Chapel ... James Freeman Clarke No preview available - 2015 |
Discourse on the Aspects of the War: Delivered in the Indiana-Place Chapel ... James Freeman Clarke No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 14 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 16 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 3 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same : for he is the minister of God- to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain : for he is the minister o of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 32 - Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak; behold, it is I.
Page 15 - O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high . mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.
Page 14 - And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting .gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and 494 FALL OF BABYLON.
Page 10 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 11 - And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property, or which entitles property of that kind to less protection than property of any other description.
Page 15 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 7 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...