Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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Side 10
... idea of the plan of New York . The backbone is Broadway ; the parallel cross - bones are the avenues , numbered from east to west ; and the bones at right angles to the spine are the streets , numbered con- secutively from the sole's ...
... idea of the plan of New York . The backbone is Broadway ; the parallel cross - bones are the avenues , numbered from east to west ; and the bones at right angles to the spine are the streets , numbered con- secutively from the sole's ...
Side 17
... idea of the mob . The fact that well - nigh everybody you meet is comfortably dressed seems to disprove the existence of those dangerous classes which always attract the notice of a foreigner in England . There are few beggars about the ...
... idea of the mob . The fact that well - nigh everybody you meet is comfortably dressed seems to disprove the existence of those dangerous classes which always attract the notice of a foreigner in England . There are few beggars about the ...
Side 23
... idea of immediate war . The number of uniforms about the streets was small - not so large as it used to be in London before the volunteer movement was heard of . A score or so of tents were pitched upon the snow in the City Park , and ...
... idea of immediate war . The number of uniforms about the streets was small - not so large as it used to be in London before the volunteer movement was heard of . A score or so of tents were pitched upon the snow in the City Park , and ...
Side 32
... idea that it has any political influence whatever ; but still , I find they all read it . I saw enough of political life in America to convince me that all public men , to say the least , preferred its friendship to its hostility . I ...
... idea that it has any political influence whatever ; but still , I find they all read it . I saw enough of political life in America to convince me that all public men , to say the least , preferred its friendship to its hostility . I ...
Side 59
... ideas of poverty , and added an unusual number of lovely young girls and faded , middle - aged women , you would form an average car's company in America . I don't mean to say - far from it - that you never meet people in the trains who ...
... ideas of poverty , and added an unusual number of lovely young girls and faded , middle - aged women , you would form an average car's company in America . I don't mean to say - far from it - that you never meet people in the trains who ...
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Side 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Side 213 - 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 govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Side 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Side 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Side 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. 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.
Side 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Side 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.