The Approaching FuryHarper Collins, 23 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 100 Book description to come. |
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Stephen B. Oates. THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF THIRTEEN PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN THE DRAMA DOD MACHISWYERS $ 5 THE APPROACHING FURY VOICES OF THE STORM , 1820-1861 " This book powerfully re - creates some of the ...
Stephen B. Oates. THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR TOLD FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF THIRTEEN PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN THE DRAMA DOD MACHISWYERS $ 5 THE APPROACHING FURY VOICES OF THE STORM , 1820-1861 " This book powerfully re - creates some of the ...
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... told from the viewpoints of thirteen principal players in the drama , from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. A ...
... told from the viewpoints of thirteen principal players in the drama , from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. A ...
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... told him what Madison had told me . I paced back and forth , gesticulating as I spoke . " What a stupendous , what an incomprehen- sible machine is man ! " I said . " Who can endure toil , famine , stripes , imprisonment or death itself ...
... told him what Madison had told me . I paced back and forth , gesticulating as I spoke . " What a stupendous , what an incomprehen- sible machine is man ! " I said . " Who can endure toil , famine , stripes , imprisonment or death itself ...
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... told John Quincy Adams : " Within five years , I fear , the Union will be divided into three distinct confedera- cies . " Quite frankly , I sympathized with the restrictionists . I told them that I would gladly support a congressional ...
... told John Quincy Adams : " Within five years , I fear , the Union will be divided into three distinct confedera- cies . " Quite frankly , I sympathized with the restrictionists . I told them that I would gladly support a congressional ...
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... told a few of my friends that something extraordinary was soon to happen , something that would allow me to fulfill the great promise made to me . In 1822 Master Samuel died , and my wife and I were sold to dif- ferent masters , which ...
... told a few of my friends that something extraordinary was soon to happen , something that would allow me to fulfill the great promise made to me . In 1822 Master Samuel died , and my wife and I were sold to dif- ferent masters , which ...
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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?