An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862 |
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... eyes fell for the first time on America . Great were the rejoicings of the Northerners on board on hearing of the occupation of Norfolk by the Federal troops , and of the blowing up of the " Merrimac . " The " Scotia " went up to New ...
... eyes fell for the first time on America . Great were the rejoicings of the Northerners on board on hearing of the occupation of Norfolk by the Federal troops , and of the blowing up of the " Merrimac . " The " Scotia " went up to New ...
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... eyes , Keep guard - for the army is sleeping . III . There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread , As he tramps from the rock to the fountain , And thinks of the two on the low trundle - bed , Far away in the cot on the mountain ...
... eyes , Keep guard - for the army is sleeping . III . There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread , As he tramps from the rock to the fountain , And thinks of the two on the low trundle - bed , Far away in the cot on the mountain ...
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... eyes have a remarkably calm expression ; his fea- tures are strongly marked ; his complexion dark ; his address and manner betokening perfect self- possession ; very ready to enter into conversation , and to set you at once at your ease ...
... eyes have a remarkably calm expression ; his fea- tures are strongly marked ; his complexion dark ; his address and manner betokening perfect self- possession ; very ready to enter into conversation , and to set you at once at your ease ...
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... eyes have a remarkably calm expression ; his fea- tures are strongly marked ; his complexion dark ; his address and manner betokening perfect self- possession ; very ready to enter into conversation , and to set you at once at your ease ...
... eyes have a remarkably calm expression ; his fea- tures are strongly marked ; his complexion dark ; his address and manner betokening perfect self- possession ; very ready to enter into conversation , and to set you at once at your ease ...
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... eye but charming to ear , sent forth its varied song by night and by day ; the nightingale's notes at night , and the thrush and the blackbird's warble by day . Some told me they imitate caterwauling , but I was glad not to hear that ...
... eye but charming to ear , sent forth its varied song by night and by day ; the nightingale's notes at night , and the thrush and the blackbird's warble by day . Some told me they imitate caterwauling , but I was glad not to hear that ...
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Page 20 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 81 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 196 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion : we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen : the Lord hath done great things for them.
Page 40 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 218 - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland ! My Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland ! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland ! Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland ! Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust, And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!
Page 161 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 219 - Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! . Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland!