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... passed other crafts , with their numerous and jolly crews , and com- municated with the people who would appear upon the river - banks from the neighbouring villages and planta- tions . On the way they were attacked by seven negroes ...
... passed other crafts , with their numerous and jolly crews , and com- municated with the people who would appear upon the river - banks from the neighbouring villages and planta- tions . On the way they were attacked by seven negroes ...
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... passed both houses of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that ...
... passed both houses of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy ; but that ...
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... passed ; but , if they see as its fruits a nation of freemen who shudder at the crimes of their fathers in buying and selling human flesh and blood , the sacrifice will be deemed to have been not too great . CHAPTER III . The Secession ...
... passed ; but , if they see as its fruits a nation of freemen who shudder at the crimes of their fathers in buying and selling human flesh and blood , the sacrifice will be deemed to have been not too great . CHAPTER III . The Secession ...
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... passed by the Legislature , and approved by the Terri- torial Governors , must be submitted to the National Congress , and if disapproved , are null and void . The Secretary of the Territory is also appointed by the President for four ...
... passed by the Legislature , and approved by the Terri- torial Governors , must be submitted to the National Congress , and if disapproved , are null and void . The Secretary of the Territory is also appointed by the President for four ...
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... passed an act summoning a State Convention to meet at Columbia on the 17th of the ensuing month . Francis W. Pickens , who was elected Governor on the 10th , distinctly declared , in his inaugural , the determination of South Carolina ...
... passed an act summoning a State Convention to meet at Columbia on the 17th of the ensuing month . Francis W. Pickens , who was elected Governor on the 10th , distinctly declared , in his inaugural , the determination of South Carolina ...
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The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History ... Vista de fragmentos - 1933 |
The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint) G. W. Bacon Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 114 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 113 - I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Página 73 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity. I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 112 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 70 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 111 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 111 - 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.
Página 113 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Página 107 - By these recent successes the reinauguration of the national authority — reconstruction — which has had a large share of thought from the first, is pressed much more closely upon our attention. It is fraught with great difficulty.