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... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
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... 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 . We know that some Southern men do free their ...
... 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 . We know that some Southern men do free their ...
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... South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency ...
... South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I ac- knowledge them — not grudgingly , but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency ...
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Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. than in the free . 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 physi- cal pain . These sympathies ...
Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. than in the free . 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 physi- cal pain . These sympathies ...
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... South flushed 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 re- sent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses , the ...
... South flushed 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 re- sent . The one will taunt , the other defy ; one aggresses , the ...
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