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... reached the maturity in which we find them when written history commences . Their institutions , even in the earliest historic times , showed signs of the decrepitude and decay of age . The vast- ness and the grim maturity of their ...
... reached the maturity in which we find them when written history commences . Their institutions , even in the earliest historic times , showed signs of the decrepitude and decay of age . The vast- ness and the grim maturity of their ...
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... reached the King of Yam's dominions , where he found an English doctor by the name of Laidley , at whose home he took up his residence , until he should be able to prosecute his journey into the interior . His first care was to render ...
... reached the King of Yam's dominions , where he found an English doctor by the name of Laidley , at whose home he took up his residence , until he should be able to prosecute his journey into the interior . His first care was to render ...
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... reached the kingdom of Woolli , and that the capital was named Medina , and in it resided the King He therefore deter- mined to proceed to the capital , and that it would be prudent to present himself to the King , as he was about to ...
... reached the kingdom of Woolli , and that the capital was named Medina , and in it resided the King He therefore deter- mined to proceed to the capital , and that it would be prudent to present himself to the King , as he was about to ...
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... reached the kingdom of Boudon , of which Tulika and Fatteconda were the principal towns . As the king resided in Fatteconda , Park determined to pay him a visit . Accordingly he employed a kind of custom house officer to accompany him ...
... reached the kingdom of Boudon , of which Tulika and Fatteconda were the principal towns . As the king resided in Fatteconda , Park determined to pay him a visit . Accordingly he employed a kind of custom house officer to accompany him ...
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... reached a little vil- lage consisting of three huts , a few women and a band of goats . Here they discovered they were entirely out of food and would have to wait some opportunity of purchasing or begging pro- visions . At this moment ...
... reached a little vil- lage consisting of three huts , a few women and a band of goats . Here they discovered they were entirely out of food and would have to wait some opportunity of purchasing or begging pro- visions . At this moment ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III | 66 |
FREDERIC CAILLIAUDTHE MARCH INTO THE DESERTTHE CARAVAN | 117 |
CHAPTER VI | 132 |
CHAPTER IX | 186 |
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE SLAVERY RECOGNIZED BY THE FRENCH | 195 |
CHAPTER XII | 213 |
THE CIVIL WARCAUSES THAT PRODUCED IT THE ATTACK ON FORT | 244 |
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH GEN GRANT COMMANDS THE UNION FORCES | 259 |
BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE GRANT ORDERS AN ATTACK GALLANT | 300 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 307 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHIS EARLY LIFEHARDSHIP AND PRIVATIONS | 389 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 413 |
246 | 480 |
BOLD MOVEMENT BLOODY FIGHTINGHANCOCKS ATTACKGEN | 602 |
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Page 279 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 172 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 389 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 372 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 278 - In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Page 372 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 12 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 173 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 139 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.
Page 54 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.