Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - History |
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... tail - race , in the small valley of Colona , about forty - five miles from 1 Thirty Years ' View , vol . ii . , pp . 688-692 . Sacramento ( then Sutter's Fort ) , in the foot Mexican War and Acquisition of Territory 71.
... tail - race , in the small valley of Colona , about forty - five miles from 1 Thirty Years ' View , vol . ii . , pp . 688-692 . Sacramento ( then Sutter's Fort ) , in the foot Mexican War and Acquisition of Territory 71.
Page 88
... miles , twelve times as large as Ohio , about ten times the size of New York , 140,000 square miles larger than the original thirteen States , ' and more than four times the area of Great Britain and Ireland . It was what was left of ...
... miles , twelve times as large as Ohio , about ten times the size of New York , 140,000 square miles larger than the original thirteen States , ' and more than four times the area of Great Britain and Ireland . It was what was left of ...
Page 102
... miles ; greater in extent by 7000 square miles than England , Wales , and Scotland . 2 In 1870 the Spanish Government enacted a law emancipating all slaves in Cuba over sixty years of age , and declaring all free who were born after the ...
... miles ; greater in extent by 7000 square miles than England , Wales , and Scotland . 2 In 1870 the Spanish Government enacted a law emancipating all slaves in Cuba over sixty years of age , and declaring all free who were born after the ...
Page 111
... miles distant from Harper's Ferry , Virginia . He professed to believe he might succeed if he could take the latter place , as it " would serve as a notice to the slaves that their friends had come , and as a trumpet to rally them to ...
... miles distant from Harper's Ferry , Virginia . He professed to believe he might succeed if he could take the latter place , as it " would serve as a notice to the slaves that their friends had come , and as a trumpet to rally them to ...
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... miles square , and included the city of Alexandria . Later ( 1846 ) the part acquired from Virginia ( about forty square miles ) was retroceded to that State . Congress had complete jurisdiction over it , though the laws of Maryland and ...
... miles square , and included the city of Alexandria . Later ( 1846 ) the part acquired from Virginia ( about forty square miles ) was retroceded to that State . Congress had complete jurisdiction over it , though the laws of Maryland and ...
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Page 138 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Page 138 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 178 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 4 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven : neither is there respect of persons with him."-— Eph.
Page 110 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 126 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 150 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 4 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 151 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 20 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...