The Magazine of History: With Notes and Queries. Extra numbers, Tema 57,Volumen15 -Tema 60,Volumen15W. Abbatt., 1917 |
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... known to exist . The " Postscript " which is added to it is even rarer than the prospectus itself - the best - known library of Georgia literature not containing it . Our Massachusetts item is written by a Harvard graduate , ( 1726 ) ...
... known to exist . The " Postscript " which is added to it is even rarer than the prospectus itself - the best - known library of Georgia literature not containing it . Our Massachusetts item is written by a Harvard graduate , ( 1726 ) ...
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... known world , and it is a curious fact that one acre of Pine Land manured or cow- pened will produce two tuns of excellent Hay . This Grass is called crowfoot , and is actually produced without sowing any seed , and is different from ...
... known world , and it is a curious fact that one acre of Pine Land manured or cow- pened will produce two tuns of excellent Hay . This Grass is called crowfoot , and is actually produced without sowing any seed , and is different from ...
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... known that large tracts of this kind of land produce good crops of wheat and corn , and answer very well for Cotton , an article which is rapidly advancing to the head of American Exports , and which ( called Georgia Cotton ) is taking ...
... known that large tracts of this kind of land produce good crops of wheat and corn , and answer very well for Cotton , an article which is rapidly advancing to the head of American Exports , and which ( called Georgia Cotton ) is taking ...
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... known in this State to have been the first Land that was surveyed in large tracts . Many families have removed on my lands from South and North - Carolina and Vir- ginia ; but the Emigration has not been equal to what is necessary to ...
... known in this State to have been the first Land that was surveyed in large tracts . Many families have removed on my lands from South and North - Carolina and Vir- ginia ; but the Emigration has not been equal to what is necessary to ...
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... known and stiled , the GEORGIA ASYLUM COMPANY . ARTICLE II . The property upon which this plan is founded , consists of the following tracts , bodies or parcels of Land , to wit , One hundred and seven thousand four hundred and five ...
... known and stiled , the GEORGIA ASYLUM COMPANY . ARTICLE II . The property upon which this plan is founded , consists of the following tracts , bodies or parcels of Land , to wit , One hundred and seven thousand four hundred and five ...
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The Magazine of History: With Notes ..., Tema 125,Volumen32 -Tema 132,Volumen33 Vista completa - 1926 |
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Página 26 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States?
Página 16 - ... justice. humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities with a view to an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Página 34 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 33 - It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.
Página 32 - My Friends: No one, not in my situation, Can appreciate my feeling of sadness At this parting. To this place, And the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, And have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, And one is buried. I now leave Not knowing when or whether ever I may return...
Página 34 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 26 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Página 13 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 5 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Página 29 - Abe was a good boy, and I can say what scarcely one woman — a mother — can say in a thousand : Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused, in fact or appearance, to do anything I requested him. I never gave him a cross word in all my life. . . . His mind and mine — what little I had — seemed to run together.