Six Months in the Federal States, Volumen2Macmillan and Company, 1863 |
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... crowded with troops singing and cheering lustily . The whole nation was overjoyed at the thought that at last the day of the " masterly inaction " was over , and that the long- expected hour of victory had struck . The army shared in ...
... crowded with troops singing and cheering lustily . The whole nation was overjoyed at the thought that at last the day of the " masterly inaction " was over , and that the long- expected hour of victory had struck . The army shared in ...
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... crowded with artillery and baggage- waggons . Officers had become few in number , passes had ceased to be required for crossing the now - deserted lines , and the weekly receptions of senators and repre- sentatives were being dropped ...
... crowded with artillery and baggage- waggons . Officers had become few in number , passes had ceased to be required for crossing the now - deserted lines , and the weekly receptions of senators and repre- sentatives were being dropped ...
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... crowded with travellers ; and though , for a wonder , the stoves were not lit , yet the closed windows served to maintain that stifling warmth of temperature which seems essential to an American's idea of comfort . car in which I ...
... crowded with travellers ; and though , for a wonder , the stoves were not lit , yet the closed windows served to maintain that stifling warmth of temperature which seems essential to an American's idea of comfort . car in which I ...
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... crowded with wounded soldiers- Confederates as well as Federal - who had just been brought up from the battle - field of Pittsburgh Landing . But what struck me most was the German air of the place and people . It was hard , strolling ...
... crowded with wounded soldiers- Confederates as well as Federal - who had just been brought up from the battle - field of Pittsburgh Landing . But what struck me most was the German air of the place and people . It was hard , strolling ...
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... crowded with numbers of steamers , laid up for want of freights . There were no trucks about the streets , and no appearance of goods being carried between the different stations . The common people to whom I spoke all told me the same ...
... crowded with numbers of steamers , laid up for want of freights . There were no trucks about the streets , and no appearance of goods being carried between the different stations . The common people to whom I spoke all told me the same ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists American amongst anti-slavery battle believe Boston Cairo Cambridge camp cause Church colour Confederate Constitution crowded Democratic doubt EDWARD DICEY emancipation England English Englishman existence fact fancy favour federacy Federal army feeling fighting Fort Sumter Franz Sigel friends German Government ground honour houses hundred Illinois James River Kentucky labour Lanark land look Louis Louisville Massachusetts McClellan ment miles military mind Mississippi Nashville nation negro never North Northern Odin Ohio Ohio river once papers party passed Patrick Donahoe patriotism persons pleasant political popular Potomac prairie question Racine railroad regiments Republican Richmond river road secession Secessionists seemed sentiment settlers side Slave slave power slavery soldiers South Southern standing strange streets Tennessee thing thousand tion told town travelling troops truth Union Virginia volunteer Washington Wendell Phillips West Western whole wooden
Pasajes populares
Página 197 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Página 198 - Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Página 309 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Página 252 - It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in Heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day.
Página 197 - I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that — I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 197 - Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read...
Página 194 - Society — they must go back to the era of our liberty and independence, and muzzle the cannon that thunders its annual joyous return — they must blot out the moral lights around us — they must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty!
Página 194 - They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom. They must blow out the moral lights around us, and extinguish that greatest torch of all which America presents...
Página 252 - They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations. On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy.