Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 64
... Northern people had hardly begun to think of the slavery question at all . Washington , Jefferson and most of the enlightened Southern statesmen of the epoch were opposed to slavery and deplored its existence . They con- sidered it ...
... Northern people had hardly begun to think of the slavery question at all . Washington , Jefferson and most of the enlightened Southern statesmen of the epoch were opposed to slavery and deplored its existence . They con- sidered it ...
Page 66
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
... Northern farms , and so slavery gradually disappeared , but there was no emphatic feeling against it in the great mass of Northern people . The opposition to slavery was kept alive by small groups of intelligentsia , or reformers , who ...
Page 67
... Northern states , especially in the cities , free negroes were so unpopular with the working people that they had great difficulty in getting along . Even at the height of the Abolition excitement , in the late fifties , when the ...
... Northern states , especially in the cities , free negroes were so unpopular with the working people that they had great difficulty in getting along . Even at the height of the Abolition excitement , in the late fifties , when the ...
Page 71
... Northern states to secede from the Union if Texas with its slaves was admitted . William E. Channing declared , “ I now ask whether as a people we are prepared to seize on a neigh- boring territory to the end of extending slavery ? I ...
... Northern states to secede from the Union if Texas with its slaves was admitted . William E. Channing declared , “ I now ask whether as a people we are prepared to seize on a neigh- boring territory to the end of extending slavery ? I ...
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... trouble of sending an army by sea to Vera Cruz ? Now the idea was revived , and General Scott was selected by Polk to command the new expedition . Taylor was left Buena Vista 89 in command in northern Mexico , but 88 Meet General Grant.
... trouble of sending an army by sea to Vera Cruz ? Now the idea was revived , and General Scott was selected by Polk to command the new expedition . Taylor was left Buena Vista 89 in command in northern Mexico , but 88 Meet General Grant.
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