Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - History |
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... RIVER -DEFEAT OF HUMPHREY MARSHALL - BATTLES OF MILL SPRINGS , FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON - CAPTURE OF BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE , AND OTHER MATTERS , 229 CHAPTER VI BATTLE OF SHILOH - CAPTURE OF ISLAND No. 10 - HALLECK'S ADVANCE ON ...
... RIVER -DEFEAT OF HUMPHREY MARSHALL - BATTLES OF MILL SPRINGS , FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON - CAPTURE OF BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE , AND OTHER MATTERS , 229 CHAPTER VI BATTLE OF SHILOH - CAPTURE OF ISLAND No. 10 - HALLECK'S ADVANCE ON ...
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... River in Virginia , landed and sold to the colony at Jamestown twenty negroes as slaves . This event marked the beginning of 1 History for Ready Reference , vol . iv . , p . 2923 . negro slavery in English - American colonies . Two ...
... River in Virginia , landed and sold to the colony at Jamestown twenty negroes as slaves . This event marked the beginning of 1 History for Ready Reference , vol . iv . , p . 2923 . negro slavery in English - American colonies . Two ...
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... River Ohio " cannot be said to have ever been slave States . The sixth section of the Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery forever therein . The slaves reported in such States were only there by tolerance . They were free of right . The ...
... River Ohio " cannot be said to have ever been slave States . The sixth section of the Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery forever therein . The slaves reported in such States were only there by tolerance . They were free of right . The ...
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... River Ohio recently ( March 1 , 1784 ) ceded to the United States by Virginia ; ( 2 ) It prohibited slavery at once and forever therein . Its sixth section is in these words : " There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...
... River Ohio recently ( March 1 , 1784 ) ceded to the United States by Virginia ; ( 2 ) It prohibited slavery at once and forever therein . Its sixth section is in these words : " There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...
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... river Ohio . " Adding , by way of reason , that " The rapid population of the State of Ohio sufficiently evinces , in the opinion of your committee , that the labor of slaves is not neces- sary to promote the growth and settlement of ...
... river Ohio . " Adding , by way of reason , that " The rapid population of the State of Ohio sufficiently evinces , in the opinion of your committee , that the labor of slaves is not neces- sary to promote the growth and settlement of ...
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Page 138 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Page 138 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 178 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 4 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven : neither is there respect of persons with him."-— Eph.
Page 110 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 126 - 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 150 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 4 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 151 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 20 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...