The Approaching FuryHarper Collins, 23 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 100 Book description to come. |
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... side issues . Determined to tell a taut , lean tale , I limited the number of characters to thirteen and focused on their perceptions of what brought the war on , which were escalating tensions over the complex slavery question and the ...
... side issues . Determined to tell a taut , lean tale , I limited the number of characters to thirteen and focused on their perceptions of what brought the war on , which were escalating tensions over the complex slavery question and the ...
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... sides threatened dissolution of the Union and civil war . So spoke the wisdom of the current generation of leaders ! Yes , a com- promise finally emerged , to take effect this year , which averts imme- diate disunion . I do not object ...
... sides threatened dissolution of the Union and civil war . So spoke the wisdom of the current generation of leaders ! Yes , a com- promise finally emerged , to take effect this year , which averts imme- diate disunion . I do not object ...
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... side that opposed the compromise and its provocative line . I can say , truthfully , that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us of slavery , if there were any practicable way to do so . Slavery ...
... side that opposed the compromise and its provocative line . I can say , truthfully , that there is not a man on earth who would sacrifice more than I would to relieve us of slavery , if there were any practicable way to do so . Slavery ...
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... side . We Caucasians will suffer the rage of His exterminating thunder . I do indeed tremble for Virginia when I remember that God is just . But if we let the blacks go free , allowing them to roam at will among us , it would also lead ...
... side . We Caucasians will suffer the rage of His exterminating thunder . I do indeed tremble for Virginia when I remember that God is just . But if we let the blacks go free , allowing them to roam at will among us , it would also lead ...
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... sides to accept sepa- rately what they opposed as a whole . Thinking the question settled and the Union saved , I resigned as Speaker of the House ( but not as a member ) and returned home to attend to private matters . When I returned ...
... sides to accept sepa- rately what they opposed as a whole . Thinking the question settled and the Union saved , I resigned as Speaker of the House ( but not as a member ) and returned home to attend to private matters . When I returned ...
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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?