The American Conflict: a History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volumen1O.D. Case, 1873 |
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... labor constantly to guard against Mr. Pol- lard's chief error - that of supposing that all the heroism , devotedness , humanity , chivalry , evinced in the contest , were displayed on one side ; all the cowardice , ferocity , cruelty ...
... labor constantly to guard against Mr. Pol- lard's chief error - that of supposing that all the heroism , devotedness , humanity , chivalry , evinced in the contest , were displayed on one side ; all the cowardice , ferocity , cruelty ...
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... labor of the country was probably devoted to the cutting of timber , the axe - helve was but a pudding - stick ; while the plow was a rude structure of wood , clumsily pointed and shielded with iron . A thousand bushels of corn ( maize ) ...
... labor of the country was probably devoted to the cutting of timber , the axe - helve was but a pudding - stick ; while the plow was a rude structure of wood , clumsily pointed and shielded with iron . A thousand bushels of corn ( maize ) ...
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... labor and care . Almost every farm- er's house was a hive , wherein the ' great wheel ' and the ' little wheel ' -the former kept in motion by the hands and feet of all the daughters ten years old and upward , the latter plied by their ...
... labor and care . Almost every farm- er's house was a hive , wherein the ' great wheel ' and the ' little wheel ' -the former kept in motion by the hands and feet of all the daughters ten years old and upward , the latter plied by their ...
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... labor of freemen as adequately rewarded , as those of almost any other country or of any previous generation . OUR COUNTRY IN 1859-60 . II . SLAVERY BEFORE THE. Eighty years had not passed since the acknowledgment of our inde- pendence ...
... labor of freemen as adequately rewarded , as those of almost any other country or of any previous generation . OUR COUNTRY IN 1859-60 . II . SLAVERY BEFORE THE. Eighty years had not passed since the acknowledgment of our inde- pendence ...
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... labor is one which his vocation incites , and even com- pels , him to disregard . To enslave those whom , whether combatants or otherwise , he might justifiably kill , appears to him rather an act of hu- manity than of injustice and ...
... labor is one which his vocation incites , and even com- pels , him to disregard . To enslave those whom , whether combatants or otherwise , he might justifiably kill , appears to him rather an act of hu- manity than of injustice and ...
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