Six Months in the Federal States, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1863 - Abolitionists |
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... slavery party asserted positively that such was the case , and that McClellan had been frightened from attacking Manassas by a scarecrow . The democratic party asserted as stoutly that the whole story was an invention , Curious to say ...
... slavery party asserted positively that such was the case , and that McClellan had been frightened from attacking Manassas by a scarecrow . The democratic party asserted as stoutly that the whole story was an invention , Curious to say ...
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... slaves . There were three men , four women , and half a dozen children . Anything more helpless or wretched than their aspect I never saw . Miserably clothed , footsore , and weary , they crouched in the hot sunlight more like animals ...
... slaves . There were three men , four women , and half a dozen children . Anything more helpless or wretched than their aspect I never saw . Miserably clothed , footsore , and weary , they crouched in the hot sunlight more like animals ...
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... slaves in the district of Columbia , a bright promise , as it proved , of a brighter future . By the way , the night before I left , a Washington friend of mine , the most lukewarm of Abolitionists , told me an inci- dent worth relating ...
... slaves in the district of Columbia , a bright promise , as it proved , of a brighter future . By the way , the night before I left , a Washington friend of mine , the most lukewarm of Abolitionists , told me an inci- dent worth relating ...
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... dollars , to indemnify the company in case of their being claimed afterwards as fugitive slaves . Of course , this rule was always evaded , when- ever the negro was personally known to the railroad officials 36 WESTERN VIRGINIA .
... dollars , to indemnify the company in case of their being claimed afterwards as fugitive slaves . Of course , this rule was always evaded , when- ever the negro was personally known to the railroad officials 36 WESTERN VIRGINIA .
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... slavery ; and , woman - like , she never thought of doubting the foundations of the creed she had been taught . Of all the foolish assumptions I have seen constantly made in discussions on the slavery question , the most erroneous seems ...
... slavery ; and , woman - like , she never thought of doubting the foundations of the creed she had been taught . Of all the foolish assumptions I have seen constantly made in discussions on the slavery question , the most erroneous seems ...
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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.