The Approaching FuryHarper Collins, 23 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 100 Book description to come. |
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... majority , will likely be to prohibit slavery in the states , thus producing the ultimate sectional crisis . The Missouri Compromise has thrown me into a state of such profound melancholy that I find it difficult to sleep or to think ...
... majority , will likely be to prohibit slavery in the states , thus producing the ultimate sectional crisis . The Missouri Compromise has thrown me into a state of such profound melancholy that I find it difficult to sleep or to think ...
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... majority of Congress to my compromise proposal , which allowed Missouri to retain its exclusion clause as long as the legislature pledged itself never to restrict persons who were or might become U.S. citizens . It was , I admit , a bit ...
... majority of Congress to my compromise proposal , which allowed Missouri to retain its exclusion clause as long as the legislature pledged itself never to restrict persons who were or might become U.S. citizens . It was , I admit , a bit ...
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... majority of white Kentuckians objected to emancipation in any form , lest it result in amalgamation , in racial violence and chaos . In 1799 they sent an overwhelming number of anti - emancipation dele- gates to a state constitutional ...
... majority of white Kentuckians objected to emancipation in any form , lest it result in amalgamation , in racial violence and chaos . In 1799 they sent an overwhelming number of anti - emancipation dele- gates to a state constitutional ...
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... majority of free blacks in this country rejected the society's efforts . I knew how much they detested the soci- ety because I fraternized with free persons of color , visited their homes and shared their meals ; they also made up most ...
... majority of free blacks in this country rejected the society's efforts . I knew how much they detested the soci- ety because I fraternized with free persons of color , visited their homes and shared their meals ; they also made up most ...
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... majority of Americans did not want to face the moral issue of slavery and branded us as irresponsible agitators who were upsetting the " har- mony " of the country ! They feared , too , that emancipation would unleash hordes of southern ...
... majority of Americans did not want to face the moral issue of slavery and branded us as irresponsible agitators who were upsetting the " har- mony " of the country ! They feared , too , that emancipation would unleash hordes of southern ...
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Стр. 227 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Стр. 430 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Стр. 230 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered...
Стр. 342 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Стр. 163 - Americans, South as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension " that the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw.
Стр. 200 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Стр. 243 - I have only to say, let us 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.
Стр. 255 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?