... William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life, Volume 4Century Company, 1889 |
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... ment , come up to the support of the Administration , offering all they have of blood and treasure , until this band of conspirators shall be put down and slavery utterly obliterated . What we ought to do is to take the resolution we ...
... ment , come up to the support of the Administration , offering all they have of blood and treasure , until this band of conspirators shall be put down and slavery utterly obliterated . What we ought to do is to take the resolution we ...
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... ment ) , forbidding his officers to receive fugitive slaves within the lines , and modified that portion of Secretary Cameron's annual report which advocated the confiscation and arming of the slaves of rebel masters . In his message to ...
... ment ) , forbidding his officers to receive fugitive slaves within the lines , and modified that portion of Secretary Cameron's annual report which advocated the confiscation and arming of the slaves of rebel masters . In his message to ...
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... ment can rightfully do it under the war power , denounce and oppose the emancipation of those in bondage . A curse on that Southern loyalty ' 1 which is retained only by allowing it to control the policy of the Administration ! " Yet Mr ...
... ment can rightfully do it under the war power , denounce and oppose the emancipation of those in bondage . A curse on that Southern loyalty ' 1 which is retained only by allowing it to control the policy of the Administration ! " Yet Mr ...
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... ment a fair pecuniary award , as a conciliatory measure , and to facilitate an amicable adjustment of difficulties ; and thus to bring the war to a speedy and beneficent termination , and indissolubly to unite all sections and all ...
... ment a fair pecuniary award , as a conciliatory measure , and to facilitate an amicable adjustment of difficulties ; and thus to bring the war to a speedy and beneficent termination , and indissolubly to unite all sections and all ...
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... ment in Great Britain . In this message - one of the clumsiest documents the author of the Gettysburg Address ever penned Mr. Lincoln recommended the adoption of a resolution by Congress to this effect : " That the United States , in ...
... ment in Great Britain . In this message - one of the clumsiest documents the author of the Gettysburg Address ever penned Mr. Lincoln recommended the adoption of a resolution by Congress to this effect : " That the United States , in ...
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Page 61 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 106 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Page 40 - But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 56 - I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually. Room in South America for colonization can be obtained cheaply and in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go.
Page 201 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of wealmess were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 168 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints; who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name ? for thou only art holy ; for all nations shall come and worship before thee ; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Page 54 - Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether boldest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place ; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Page 215 - Loud and long Lift the old exulting song; Sing with Miriam by the sea, He has cast the mighty down; Horse and rider sink and drown; "He hath triumphed gloriously!
Page 59 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 18 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?