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... army for the defense and propagation of slavery , we think it will be an easy matter - independent of the negroes , who , in nine cases out of ten , would be delighted with an opportunity to cut their masters ' throats , and without ...
... army for the defense and propagation of slavery , we think it will be an easy matter - independent of the negroes , who , in nine cases out of ten , would be delighted with an opportunity to cut their masters ' throats , and without ...
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... army of brave and worthy successors - champions of Freedom now living , have the illustrious forefathers of the North , in the persons of Garrison , Greeley , Giddings , Goodell , Grow , and Gerrit Smith ; in Seward , Sumner , Stowe ...
... army of brave and worthy successors - champions of Freedom now living , have the illustrious forefathers of the North , in the persons of Garrison , Greeley , Giddings , Goodell , Grow , and Gerrit Smith ; in Seward , Sumner , Stowe ...
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... army is kept up in the city of Richmond for no other purpose than to be ready to quell insurrection among the slaves ; this is paid for out of the public treasury annually . This standing army is called the public guard , but it is no ...
... army is kept up in the city of Richmond for no other purpose than to be ready to quell insurrection among the slaves ; this is paid for out of the public treasury annually . This standing army is called the public guard , but it is no ...
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... army ready to yield unhesitating obedience to his commands , the sailor animates his fleet with his own personal touch , and the great man in art , literature or science is master of his material , if he can master himself . The ...
... army ready to yield unhesitating obedience to his commands , the sailor animates his fleet with his own personal touch , and the great man in art , literature or science is master of his material , if he can master himself . The ...
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... Army , in case such action was carried out , and it is understood that he sent Calhoun private word that he would be the first man to be hanged for treason . Nullification quietly collapsed . The North was thrilled still more than by ...
... Army , in case such action was carried out , and it is understood that he sent Calhoun private word that he would be the first man to be hanged for treason . Nullification quietly collapsed . The North was thrilled still more than by ...
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Page 180 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 132 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 427 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray- — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 249 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 398 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 398 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday...
Page 132 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 426 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 297 - 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 180 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become...