Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in DixieJ.W. Daughaday, 1863 - 285 páginas |
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... cell , swarming with odious vermin , and from which a negro had recently been taken to be executed . This barbarous outrage was inflicted for the sole purpose , in the language of his tormentor , " of letting him know that there was a ...
... cell , swarming with odious vermin , and from which a negro had recently been taken to be executed . This barbarous outrage was inflicted for the sole purpose , in the language of his tormentor , " of letting him know that there was a ...
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... cell under condemnation of death . In order to frighten him to make such confessions as his accusers desired , the rope with which he was to be suspended from the gallows , was put in the cell with the culprit . I asked the keeper the ...
... cell under condemnation of death . In order to frighten him to make such confessions as his accusers desired , the rope with which he was to be suspended from the gallows , was put in the cell with the culprit . I asked the keeper the ...
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... cell . They were godly men , and had come to offer the sympathy of supplication in prayer . One of these visitors was gifted in a special manner . His pleadings before the court of heaven in behalf of his unfortunate fellow- man , were ...
... cell . They were godly men , and had come to offer the sympathy of supplication in prayer . One of these visitors was gifted in a special manner . His pleadings before the court of heaven in behalf of his unfortunate fellow- man , were ...
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... , " — referring to the visitor who had been praying with him in the cell . " Well , my dear fellow , you know you have to die , don't you ? " " Yes , massa . " " What do you think will become of you when 78 BEYOND THE LINES ; OR.
... , " — referring to the visitor who had been praying with him in the cell . " Well , my dear fellow , you know you have to die , don't you ? " " Yes , massa . " " What do you think will become of you when 78 BEYOND THE LINES ; OR.
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... cell . I had no further opportunity to converse with the poor negro prisoner . My thoughts troubled me . I reflected on the destiny of these immortal beings , thus oppressed in body and soul by their tyrant masters . What a fearful ...
... cell . I had no further opportunity to converse with the poor negro prisoner . My thoughts troubled me . I reflected on the destiny of these immortal beings , thus oppressed in body and soul by their tyrant masters . What a fearful ...
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Página 210 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 156 - Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of slavery; but they could scarcely obtain a reading.
Página 210 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 257 - Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea ! Jehovah hath triumphed ! His people are free ! 2 Praise to the Conqueror ! praise to the Lord ! His word was our arrow, His breath was our sword.
Página 210 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Página 149 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
Página 252 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 227 - Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright, Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Página 210 - It was said, that we had just assumed a place among independent nations, in consequence of our opposition to the attempts of Great Britain to enslave us; that this opposition was grounded upon the preservation of those rights to which God and nature had entitled us, not in particular, but in common with all the rest of mankind...
Página 181 - My days are gliding swiftly by, and I a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, those hours of toil and danger...