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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... Western Virginia , 1861 ; others in Kentucky , Tennessee , Mississippi , and Ala- bama , 1862 ; in West Virginia , Virginia , Maryland , and Penn- sylvania , 1863 ; and in Virginia , 1864 ; ending with the capture of Richmond and ...
... Western Virginia , 1861 ; others in Kentucky , Tennessee , Mississippi , and Ala- bama , 1862 ; in West Virginia , Virginia , Maryland , and Penn- sylvania , 1863 ; and in Virginia , 1864 ; ending with the capture of Richmond and ...
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... Repulse of General Lee AND AFFAIRS of Cheat. PERSONAL MENTION - OCCUPANCY OF WESTERN VIRGINIA UN- DER MCCLELLAN ( 1861 ) -CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN , AND INCIDENTS SLAVERY : ITS POLITICAL HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES.
... Repulse of General Lee AND AFFAIRS of Cheat. PERSONAL MENTION - OCCUPANCY OF WESTERN VIRGINIA UN- DER MCCLELLAN ( 1861 ) -CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN , AND INCIDENTS SLAVERY : ITS POLITICAL HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES.
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... WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER V PAGE . 205 UNION OCCUPANCY OF KENTUCKY - AFFAIR AT GREEN RIVER -DEFEAT OF HUMPHREY MARSHALL - BATTLES OF MILL SPRINGS , FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON - CAPTURE OF BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE , AND OTHER MATTERS , 229 ...
... WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER V PAGE . 205 UNION OCCUPANCY OF KENTUCKY - AFFAIR AT GREEN RIVER -DEFEAT OF HUMPHREY MARSHALL - BATTLES OF MILL SPRINGS , FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON - CAPTURE OF BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE , AND OTHER MATTERS , 229 ...
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... Western Europe , respectively , doomed their captives to slavery . Contemporary with the discovery of America , the Moors were driven from Granada , their last stronghold in Spain , to the north of Africa ; there they became corsairs ...
... Western Europe , respectively , doomed their captives to slavery . Contemporary with the discovery of America , the Moors were driven from Granada , their last stronghold in Spain , to the north of Africa ; there they became corsairs ...
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... West Indies with slaves . By the treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) Spain granted to England , during thirty years , the absolute monopoly of supplying slaves to the Spanish colonies . By this treaty England agreed to take to the West Indies ...
... West Indies with slaves . By the treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) Spain granted to England , during thirty years , the absolute monopoly of supplying slaves to the Spanish colonies . By this treaty England agreed to take to the West Indies ...
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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...