The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries: Extra number, Issues 101-104W. Abbatt, 1924 - History |
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... stand at Wiggins ' Hill , commenced a slaughter of the inhabitants . The news of which reached the ears of those brave and dauntless officers , Cols . McCoy and Harden , who soon hastened to the defence of the terrified Whigs , and ...
... stand at Wiggins ' Hill , commenced a slaughter of the inhabitants . The news of which reached the ears of those brave and dauntless officers , Cols . McCoy and Harden , who soon hastened to the defence of the terrified Whigs , and ...
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... standing next to young Stafford , who was about to shoot through one of our port holes , and there came a ball from the fort and killed him dead . Young Stafford was with me in Gen. Marion's army , and he was indeed a brave and ...
... standing next to young Stafford , who was about to shoot through one of our port holes , and there came a ball from the fort and killed him dead . Young Stafford was with me in Gen. Marion's army , and he was indeed a brave and ...
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... Standing Army . I was a good deal Surprized at it for I was very little known and un- Solisited for . I was so strong a patriot that I very readily accepted and was orderd to join Col'l Lewis Debois Regiment and take his orders - I did ...
... Standing Army . I was a good deal Surprized at it for I was very little known and un- Solisited for . I was so strong a patriot that I very readily accepted and was orderd to join Col'l Lewis Debois Regiment and take his orders - I did ...
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... standing on Mr. Norwood's ( 42 ) Stoop as soon as she espide me she dropp'd * -I saw no more of her she could not get to see me but sent me some Beding and provisions that was of grate releaf - when we got to Gard House we was divided ...
... standing on Mr. Norwood's ( 42 ) Stoop as soon as she espide me she dropp'd * -I saw no more of her she could not get to see me but sent me some Beding and provisions that was of grate releaf - when we got to Gard House we was divided ...
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... Stand by my Country - We remain'd at my unkels Esq'r Leggett's till the last april - I then rented a small tenement of Cap't Jabes Trusedal at North Salem , and took an old Smithshop and went to work at my Trade . I Remain'd there till ...
... Stand by my Country - We remain'd at my unkels Esq'r Leggett's till the last april - I then rented a small tenement of Cap't Jabes Trusedal at North Salem , and took an old Smithshop and went to work at my Trade . I Remain'd there till ...
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Page 166 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 162 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 155 - 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 159 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 105 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 86 - ... discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position; discarding our standard that we have left us.
Page 85 - I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop ? If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man. ? If that declaration is not the truth, let, us get the Statute book, in which we find it, and tear it out!
Page 86 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor...
Page 322 - ... principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, even spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places (above the greatest men that are their servants).
Page 161 - Washington, Madison, or the framers of this government. Mr. Lincoln and the Republican party set themselves up as wiser than these men who made this government, which has flourished for seventy years under the principle of popular sovereignty, recognizing the right of each State to do as it pleased.