The Approaching FuryHarper Collins, 23 июн. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 100 Book description to come. |
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... cause raging thunderstorms or searing droughts . I can also heal disease by the imposition of my hands , and once healed a comrade that way . No , I've not done wrong . And no , I didn't fail . Our names are written in blood across the ...
... cause raging thunderstorms or searing droughts . I can also heal disease by the imposition of my hands , and once healed a comrade that way . No , I've not done wrong . And no , I didn't fail . Our names are written in blood across the ...
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... caused them to revolt . The Free Press ( hypocritical name ! ) of Tarboro , North Carolina , pointed at " an incendiary paper , the Liberator , published in either Boston or Philadelphia by a white man , with the avowed purpose of ...
... caused them to revolt . The Free Press ( hypocritical name ! ) of Tarboro , North Carolina , pointed at " an incendiary paper , the Liberator , published in either Boston or Philadelphia by a white man , with the avowed purpose of ...
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... cause for severity ? I had to melt icebergs of silence around the evil of slavery . I also felt a personal identification with the Negro , as if the iron of slavery had pierced my own soul . While I was a child , my mother first made me ...
... cause for severity ? I had to melt icebergs of silence around the evil of slavery . I also felt a personal identification with the Negro , as if the iron of slavery had pierced my own soul . While I was a child , my mother first made me ...
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... cause . I met him in 1828 , in a hotel room in Boston , where he was present- ing his arguments for gradual emancipation and colonization to a group of ministers . He was a slight , stooped man with reddish hair and a burning intensity ...
... cause . I met him in 1828 , in a hotel room in Boston , where he was present- ing his arguments for gradual emancipation and colonization to a group of ministers . He was a slight , stooped man with reddish hair and a burning intensity ...
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... cause of emancipation . American slavery was unequaled for cruelty - not even antiquity could produce its par- allel . And yet it was boastingly proclaimed to the world that this was the land of the free and the asylum of the oppressed ...
... cause of emancipation . American slavery was unequaled for cruelty - not even antiquity could produce its par- allel . And yet it was boastingly proclaimed to the world that this was the land of the free and the asylum of the oppressed ...
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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?