Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volumen1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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... division into more slave States . There was , moreover , a certainty that many more free States would be admitted from the territorial domain of the great West . The political equilibrium in Con- gress on the line of slavery had ...
... division into more slave States . There was , moreover , a certainty that many more free States would be admitted from the territorial domain of the great West . The political equilibrium in Con- gress on the line of slavery had ...
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... division of the Union into four sections , with a complicated and neces- sarily impracticable plan of voting in Congress , and of voting for the election of President and Vice - President . These are only samples of the many ...
... division of the Union into four sections , with a complicated and neces- sarily impracticable plan of voting in Congress , and of voting for the election of President and Vice - President . These are only samples of the many ...
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... divisions ) had only a proportionately smaller number of teams ; and for the field and staff of a regimental headquarters not less than six such teams were required , including one each for the adjutant and the regimental quartermaster ...
... divisions ) had only a proportionately smaller number of teams ; and for the field and staff of a regimental headquarters not less than six such teams were required , including one each for the adjutant and the regimental quartermaster ...
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... division , will detach a column of not more than two thousand men under Colonel Rust , to turn the enemy's position at Cheat Mountain Pass ( ' summit ' ) at daylight on the 12th inst . ( Thursday ) . General Jackson , having left a ...
... division , will detach a column of not more than two thousand men under Colonel Rust , to turn the enemy's position at Cheat Mountain Pass ( ' summit ' ) at daylight on the 12th inst . ( Thursday ) . General Jackson , having left a ...
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... division , the result of which he must await . He must particularly keep in mind that the movement of General Jackson is to surprise the enemy in their defences . He must , therefore , not discover his movements nor advance - before ...
... division , the result of which he must await . He must particularly keep in mind that the movement of General Jackson is to surprise the enemy in their defences . He must , therefore , not discover his movements nor advance - before ...
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Página 138 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Página 138 - 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 178 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. 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.
Página 4 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven : neither is there respect of persons with him."-— Eph.
Página 110 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 126 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 150 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 4 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Página 151 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. 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.
Página 20 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...