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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... firing on Fort Sumter , and the ac- count he has given of the several attempts to negotiate a peace before the final overthrow of the Confederate armies , will be of special interest to students of American history . Slavery bred the ...
... firing on Fort Sumter , and the ac- count he has given of the several attempts to negotiate a peace before the final overthrow of the Confederate armies , will be of special interest to students of American history . Slavery bred the ...
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... FIRED ON - SEIZURE BY CONFEDERATES OF ARMS , ARSENALS , AND FORTS - DISLOYALTY OF ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS - PROCLAMATION OF LINCOLN FOR 75,000 MIL- ITIA , AND PREPARATION FOR WAR ON BOTH SIDES CHAPTER III ix 158 186 CHAPTER IV Repulse of ...
... FIRED ON - SEIZURE BY CONFEDERATES OF ARMS , ARSENALS , AND FORTS - DISLOYALTY OF ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS - PROCLAMATION OF LINCOLN FOR 75,000 MIL- ITIA , AND PREPARATION FOR WAR ON BOTH SIDES CHAPTER III ix 158 186 CHAPTER IV Repulse of ...
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... fired upon , Commander Alfred Taylor , command- ing the United States naval ship Saratoga , in the port of Kabenda , Africa , captured the Nightingale of Boston , flying American colors , with a cargo of 961 recently captured , stolen ...
... fired upon , Commander Alfred Taylor , command- ing the United States naval ship Saratoga , in the port of Kabenda , Africa , captured the Nightingale of Boston , flying American colors , with a cargo of 961 recently captured , stolen ...
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... fired on by their assailants . Colonel Washington and others of their captives were held by Brown in the engine - house . Shots were returned by Brown and his men . Some idea of Brown's character and bravery can be formed from Colonel ...
... fired on by their assailants . Colonel Washington and others of their captives were held by Brown in the engine - house . Shots were returned by Brown and his men . Some idea of Brown's character and bravery can be formed from Colonel ...
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... fired on . The vote was taken June 25th , and the Ordinance was ratified . Arkansas defeated in convention an Ordinance for secession March 18 , but passed one May 6 , 1861 , without a vote of her people . Tennessee , by a vote of her ...
... fired on . The vote was taken June 25th , and the Ordinance was ratified . Arkansas defeated in convention an Ordinance for secession March 18 , but passed one May 6 , 1861 , without a vote of her people . Tennessee , by a vote of her ...
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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...