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... Free Soil party , from whose loins afterwards sprang the Republican party . Before saying more about this important move- ment , we will follow Mr. Sumner to another col- • lege anniversary- this time at Union College , Schenectady 140 ...
... Free Soil party , from whose loins afterwards sprang the Republican party . Before saying more about this important move- ment , we will follow Mr. Sumner to another col- • lege anniversary- this time at Union College , Schenectady 140 ...
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... law of human progress ? " Thus did Mr. Sumner seek to build up a new party on the highest grounds , and to enlist in its support the young men of the land . - CHAPTER XIII . - Object of the Free Soil 144 LIFE OF CHARLES SUMNER .
... law of human progress ? " Thus did Mr. Sumner seek to build up a new party on the highest grounds , and to enlist in its support the young men of the land . - CHAPTER XIII . - Object of the Free Soil 144 LIFE OF CHARLES SUMNER .
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Jeremiah Chaplin, Jane Dunbar Chaplin. - CHAPTER XIII . - Object of the Free Soil Party . - Free Soil Con- vention at Buffalo . - Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams.- Speech by Mr. Sum- ner . Address on Peace . Colored Children ...
Jeremiah Chaplin, Jane Dunbar Chaplin. - CHAPTER XIII . - Object of the Free Soil Party . - Free Soil Con- vention at Buffalo . - Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams.- Speech by Mr. Sum- ner . Address on Peace . Colored Children ...
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... Free Soil party aimed to do all that could then be done aside from mere moral means . lt would forbid slavery in the District of Columbia and the Territories , and the formation of new Slave States ; would liberate the general govern ...
... Free Soil party aimed to do all that could then be done aside from mere moral means . lt would forbid slavery in the District of Columbia and the Territories , and the formation of new Slave States ; would liberate the general govern ...
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... Free Soil convention at Worcester , September 12 , 1849 -in vindication of the new organization . It con- tains the germ of his great speech in Congress in 1852 , showing that the Freedom party is a na- tional party , as opposed to ...
... Free Soil convention at Worcester , September 12 , 1849 -in vindication of the new organization . It con- tains the germ of his great speech in Congress in 1852 , showing that the Freedom party is a na- tional party , as opposed to ...
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Page 361 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Page 475 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 291 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 147 - I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall, neither night nor day, Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid :* Weary sev'n-nights, nine times nine, , Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine :* Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd.
Page 103 - There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray ; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way...
Page 12 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 60 - During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free States — and particularly in New England — than at the South.
Page 475 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 225 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 307 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I...