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... side of the Union , who always proved worthy and efficient sol- diers . The Southern leaders made efforts to enlist them in their cause , with some success , under the promise of freedom . In that , they were not generally used in ...
... side of the Union , who always proved worthy and efficient sol- diers . The Southern leaders made efforts to enlist them in their cause , with some success , under the promise of freedom . In that , they were not generally used in ...
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... side . The sympathies of the noblest are with them . Their enemies are also the enemies of liberty , of progress and of justice . The white men who make the white race honorable , believe in equal rights for all . The noblest living are ...
... side . The sympathies of the noblest are with them . Their enemies are also the enemies of liberty , of progress and of justice . The white men who make the white race honorable , believe in equal rights for all . The noblest living are ...
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... side of one of the huts , being unwilling to interrupt the flow of filial and parental tenderness ; and the attention of the company was so entirely taken up with the blacksmith , that I believe that none of his friends had observed ...
... side of one of the huts , being unwilling to interrupt the flow of filial and parental tenderness ; and the attention of the company was so entirely taken up with the blacksmith , that I believe that none of his friends had observed ...
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... side , and the third , presenting his gun , told me I must go back to the King . " ' It soon appeared , however , that these three horsemen were merely private robbers , who were fearful that their master , the King , had not ...
... side , and the third , presenting his gun , told me I must go back to the King . " ' It soon appeared , however , that these three horsemen were merely private robbers , who were fearful that their master , the King , had not ...
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... sides by rivulets , which , after a rain storm , were swelled into rapid streams . Park's horse was now so attenuated by fatigue that it appeared like a mere skeleton , which the traveler , fearing to mount , drove before him , as if to ...
... sides by rivulets , which , after a rain storm , were swelled into rapid streams . Park's horse was now so attenuated by fatigue that it appeared like a mere skeleton , which the traveler , fearing to mount , drove before him , as if to ...
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.