Six Months in the Federal States, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1863 - Abolitionists |
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... seemed to send thrilling through you , were such as no people could listen to daily without danger . While at Washington I recalled this passage often . From the windows of my lodgings , I looked out upon the mile - long Pennsylvania ...
... seemed to send thrilling through you , were such as no people could listen to daily without danger . While at Washington I recalled this passage often . From the windows of my lodgings , I looked out upon the mile - long Pennsylvania ...
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... seemed to be unrolling itself ceaselessly . Sometimes it was a line of artillery strug- gling and floundering onwards through the mud - some- times it was a company of wild Texan cavalry , rattling past , with the jingle of their belts ...
... seemed to be unrolling itself ceaselessly . Sometimes it was a line of artillery strug- gling and floundering onwards through the mud - some- times it was a company of wild Texan cavalry , rattling past , with the jingle of their belts ...
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... seemed covered with camps . The white tents caught your eye on all sides ; and across the river , where the dense brushwood obscured the prospect , the great army of the Potomac stretched miles away , right up to the advanced posts of ...
... seemed covered with camps . The white tents caught your eye on all sides ; and across the river , where the dense brushwood obscured the prospect , the great army of the Potomac stretched miles away , right up to the advanced posts of ...
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... seemed to me his unreasonable animosity towards England . After a concession on his part , that possibly his feelings were morbidly exagge- rated , he turned round and pointed to the portrait of a very near and dear relative of his - a ...
... seemed to me his unreasonable animosity towards England . After a concession on his part , that possibly his feelings were morbidly exagge- rated , he turned round and pointed to the portrait of a very near and dear relative of his - a ...
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... seemed simply absurd to suppose that any man could object to having his ground cleared for him ; and no amount of argument or expo- stulation could persuade them that it was not one of the rights of man to cut down any tree he came ...
... seemed simply absurd to suppose that any man could object to having his ground cleared for him ; and no amount of argument or expo- stulation could persuade them that it was not one of the rights of man to cut down any tree he came ...
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Popular passages
Page 197 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 198 - Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 309 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Page 252 - It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in Heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day.
Page 197 - I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that — 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 197 - Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read...
Page 194 - Society — they must go back to the era of our liberty and independence, and muzzle the cannon that thunders its annual joyous return — they must blot out the moral lights around us — they must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty!
Page 194 - They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom. They must blow out the moral lights around us, and extinguish that greatest torch of all which America presents...
Page 252 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.