The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, Volume 1Century Company, 1885 - Biography & Autobiography Bowles was editor of the newspaper Springfield Republican and advocated founding the Republican Party. |
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... moral element ignored.- The Republican's embarrassment . - The Fugitive Slave bill ..... 73-81 CHAPTER XI . — THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW : Compromise ac- cepted . Must we surrender fugitive slaves ? - Humanity versus law.- Obedience or ...
... moral element ignored.- The Republican's embarrassment . - The Fugitive Slave bill ..... 73-81 CHAPTER XI . — THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW : Compromise ac- cepted . Must we surrender fugitive slaves ? - Humanity versus law.- Obedience or ...
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... moral purpose . It roused men with the idea of a great destiny . Its tremendous presentation of the issues of existence woke an energy like that which is inspired by man's conflict with the elemental forces of nature . The ideal of ...
... moral purpose . It roused men with the idea of a great destiny . Its tremendous presentation of the issues of existence woke an energy like that which is inspired by man's conflict with the elemental forces of nature . The ideal of ...
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... morals ; gives an occasional bit of picturesque description ; touches observantly on local politics ; and infers that slavery is worse for the masters than for the slaves . The letters are written in a clear and simple style , in ...
... morals ; gives an occasional bit of picturesque description ; touches observantly on local politics ; and infers that slavery is worse for the masters than for the slaves . The letters are written in a clear and simple style , in ...
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... moral sentiment of the community , and its reckless personalities showed at full height the virulence of a period of bitter partisanship and low culture . By its merits as a newspaper it won the reward it sought - wealth and notoriety ...
... moral sentiment of the community , and its reckless personalities showed at full height the virulence of a period of bitter partisanship and low culture . By its merits as a newspaper it won the reward it sought - wealth and notoriety ...
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... moral atmosphere of the community than Mr. Bowles . But in his youth he was not especially stirred by what we now look back to as the vital and prophetic forces of the time . With those forces , as social influences , he did not come in ...
... moral atmosphere of the community than Mr. Bowles . But in his youth he was not especially stirred by what we now look back to as the vital and prophetic forces of the time . With those forces , as social influences , he did not come in ...
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Page 345 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 94 - That the series of acts of the Thirty-second Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave Law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...
Page 243 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 201 - A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
Page 240 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 151 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.
Page 274 - ... if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 237 - I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their stripes and unrequited toil; but I bite my lips and keep quiet.
Page 261 - That the Government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary ; and during its existence, all citizens of the United States . have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.