History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: 1800-1880 |
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... elected President in 1853. - A Bill in- troduced to repeal the " Missouri Compromise . " -Speech by Stephen A. Douglass . Mr. Chase's Reply . - An Act to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska . — State Militia in the South ...
... elected President in 1853. - A Bill in- troduced to repeal the " Missouri Compromise . " -Speech by Stephen A. Douglass . Mr. Chase's Reply . - An Act to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska . — State Militia in the South ...
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... elected President of the United States . The Issue of the War between the States -- - 228 CHAPTER XV . 66 A WHITE MAN'S WAR . " The First Call for Troops . Rendition of Fugitive Slaves by the Army . Col. Tyler's Ad- dress to the People ...
... elected President of the United States . The Issue of the War between the States -- - 228 CHAPTER XV . 66 A WHITE MAN'S WAR . " The First Call for Troops . Rendition of Fugitive Slaves by the Army . Col. Tyler's Ad- dress to the People ...
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... elected to Con- gress . On the 17th of February , 1804 , Mr. Rodney made the following report : " That taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified sus ...
... elected to Con- gress . On the 17th of February , 1804 , Mr. Rodney made the following report : " That taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified sus ...
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... elected to Con- gress . On the 17th of February , 1804 , Mr. Rodney made the following report : " That taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified sus ...
... elected to Con- gress . On the 17th of February , 1804 , Mr. Rodney made the following report : " That taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified sus ...
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... elect to abandon such right ; in which case a notification of such abandonment , under the hand of such person , shall ... elected to retain the service of such child , and be liable for its maintenance un- til , the period to which its ...
... elect to abandon such right ; in which case a notification of such abandonment , under the hand of such person , shall ... elected to retain the service of such child , and be liable for its maintenance un- til , the period to which its ...
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Page 310 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 224 - 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 265 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States...
Page 420 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 232 - There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by National or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him, or to others, by which authority it is done.
Page 108 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 310 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred...
Page 264 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 228 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 219 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.