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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... attack it politically , although but about one fifth of the whole white population of the slave States in 1860 , or perhaps at any time , was , through family relationship , or otherwise , directly or indirectly interested in slaves or ...
... attack it politically , although but about one fifth of the whole white population of the slave States in 1860 , or perhaps at any time , was , through family relationship , or otherwise , directly or indirectly interested in slaves or ...
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... attacked by General Gaines of the United States Army . " A hot shot penetrated one of the magazines , and the whole fort was blown to pieces , July 27 , 1816. There were 300 negro men , women , and children , and 20 Choctaws in the fort ...
... attacked by General Gaines of the United States Army . " A hot shot penetrated one of the magazines , and the whole fort was blown to pieces , July 27 , 1816. There were 300 negro men , women , and children , and 20 Choctaws in the fort ...
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... attack the " agitators " and opponents of slavery extension in the North , and to threaten disunion if the institution of slavery was not permitted to dictate the political policy of the Republic . The exact method of reviving in ...
... attack the " agitators " and opponents of slavery extension in the North , and to threaten disunion if the institution of slavery was not permitted to dictate the political policy of the Republic . The exact method of reviving in ...
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... attacks from all quarters , who exclaimed : " I am very glad this question has at length come up . I am glad , too , it has antagonized with the nigger question . We are ' shiver- ing in the wind , ' are we , sir , over your Cuba ...
... attacks from all quarters , who exclaimed : " I am very glad this question has at length come up . I am glad , too , it has antagonized with the nigger question . We are ' shiver- ing in the wind , ' are we , sir , over your Cuba ...
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... attack on slavery he regarded as more rational than and as likely to triumph as Joshua's attack on a walled city with trumpets and shouts , and as Gideon's band of three hundred , armed only with trumpets , lamps , and pitch- ers in its ...
... attack on slavery he regarded as more rational than and as likely to triumph as Joshua's attack on a walled city with trumpets and shouts , and as Gideon's band of three hundred , armed only with trumpets , lamps , and pitch- ers in its ...
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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...