Letters on the American Republic, Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors Refuted and Exposed, Volumen4Hamilton, Adams, & Company, 1863 - 290 páginas |
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... north cannot accomplish in America , " God and the negro , " says the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher , " are to do ; " and , if we are to receive the testimony of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe , already the work is done . In a letter published in ...
... north cannot accomplish in America , " God and the negro , " says the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher , " are to do ; " and , if we are to receive the testimony of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe , already the work is done . In a letter published in ...
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... North , it will be perceived that obnoxious as John Bright makes out " privilege " to be here ; and sneeringly as he may refer to it , there are a few in the New World , and the writer amongst them , who have never been possessed or ...
... North , it will be perceived that obnoxious as John Bright makes out " privilege " to be here ; and sneeringly as he may refer to it , there are a few in the New World , and the writer amongst them , who have never been possessed or ...
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... North , would not have been so far inducted into the so - called humanity and divinity of slavery , as to have their moral sense extinguished - shown in their attempt to found a new republic based on slavery ; all liberty sentiments ...
... North , would not have been so far inducted into the so - called humanity and divinity of slavery , as to have their moral sense extinguished - shown in their attempt to found a new republic based on slavery ; all liberty sentiments ...
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... North , whom Beecher designates the " picklock of society and the pickpocket of the world , " and whose daughters , especially in the New England States , according to the testimony of the same divine , are to regenerate the South ...
... North , whom Beecher designates the " picklock of society and the pickpocket of the world , " and whose daughters , especially in the New England States , according to the testimony of the same divine , are to regenerate the South ...
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... North . The next scene brings before us a large procession of dis- tinguished citizens , with clergymen robed in their canonicals leading the way to church , where they offer their devout gratitude to Almighty God for the passing of the ...
... North . The next scene brings before us a large procession of dis- tinguished citizens , with clergymen robed in their canonicals leading the way to church , where they offer their devout gratitude to Almighty God for the passing of the ...
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Letters on the American Republic: Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors ... Joshua Rhodes Balme Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
Letters on the American Republic, Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors ... Joshua Rhodes Balme Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
Letters on the American Republic: Or, Common Fallacies and Monstrous Errors ... Joshua Rhodes Balme Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
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Página 66 - 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.
Página 66 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 50 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be " the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not...
Página 51 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Página 6 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Página 222 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Página 78 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause 'shall be delivered up
Página 59 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Página 84 - I should be exceedingly glad to know that there would never be another slave State admitted into the Union ; but I must add, that if slavery shall be kept out of the territories during the territorial existence of any one given territory, and then the people...
Página 83 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...