 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon,* and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough that it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy,...ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Against this crime of crimes he fought and fell; He freed a race and found a prison... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...that of the Republican party. The raid was described as the work of a solitary enthusiast brooding " over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them." It was an attempt to assassinate the slave -power. Politically, Lincoln repudiated John Brown. He was... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....ventures the attempt which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 764 pages
...slaves, in which the slavey refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....ventures the attempt which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry,... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were,... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - History - 1909 - 360 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....related in history, at the assassination of kings and emperors."1 If it be urged that Mr. Lincoln's oft-quoted words uttered before his nomination for the... | |
 | Oswald Garrison Villard - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 816 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - United States - 1910 - 216 pages
...slaves in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little less than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed....them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little less than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's attempt at Harper's... | |
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That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the many attempts related in history at the assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He... 
