The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux KlanDoubleday, Page, 1905 - Всего страниц: 372 |
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Aleck Andrew Johnson answered arms Aryan race asked beautiful began Ben Cameron Ben's blood breath Capitol Captain Charles Sumner club foot Congress cried crowd Cyclops dare dark daugh death desk Doctor Cameron door dream dress Elsie Elsie's eyes face father feet flashing Freedman's Bureau galleries girl hair hand head heart honour hour Howle hurried Justice kissed knew laughed leader leaped Lenoir Lincoln lips live looked Lover's Leap Lynch Margaret Marion mother mulatto Nation negro never night Oakes Ames old Capitol Prison old Commoner old Stoneman pardon passed passion Phil Piedmont President prison rose scalawag seat Senate shouted silence slavery smile soldiers soul South South Carolina Southern Stanton stood strange suddenly tell tenderness thing thousand to-day to-night took uncon victory voice vote walked watched whispered White House words wounded
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Стр. 24 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Стр. 24 - Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the...
Стр. 311 - Third: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in conformity to the laws of the land.
Стр. 310 - To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless, from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal...
Стр. 294 - We have no money — the deed has not been delivered," she pleaded, a sudden glimmer of hope flashing in her blue eyes. Gus stepped closer, with an ugly leer, his flat nose dilated, his sinister bead-eyes wide apart gleaming ape-like, as he laughed: "We ain't atter money!" The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous. A single tiger-spring, and the black claws of the beast sank into the soft white throat and she was still.
Стр. 81 - Never, while time lasts, while heaven lasts, while hell rocks and groans, will it be forgotten that slavery, by its minions, slew him, and in slaying him made manifest its whole nature and tendency.
Стр. 178 - The South is conquered soil," he says to the President (a mere figure-head, by the way), "I mean to blot it from the map." Further: "It is but the justice and wisdom of heaven that the Negro shall rule the land of his bondage. It is the only solution of the race problem. Wait until I put a ballot in the hand of every Negro, and a bayonet at the breast of every white man from the James to the Rio Grande.
Стр. 122 - that an overruling Providence had been pleased to bring to this land of freedom another cargo of benighted heathen to enjoy the blessing of a Gospel dispensation.
Стр. 142 - The representatives of the doomed parties were excluded from all participation in the trial. The conviction is to be followed by the most ignominious punishment ever inflicted on large masses of men. It disfranchises them by hundreds of thousands and degrades them all, even those who are admitted to be guiltless, from the rank of freemen to the condition of slaves.