Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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Side 6
... land again was enough to make us forget all political troubles ; and , apart from that , the approach through the Narrows into the land- locked bay of New York will remain in my mind as one of the loveliest scenes that I have ever ...
... land again was enough to make us forget all political troubles ; and , apart from that , the approach through the Narrows into the land- locked bay of New York will remain in my mind as one of the loveliest scenes that I have ever ...
Side 8
... land at last . It seemed hard to realize , save for the sunshine , that I had come into a foreign country . Like the traveller of Horace , I had crossed the sea , and had changed nothing but the sky . Everything around and about me ...
... land at last . It seemed hard to realize , save for the sunshine , that I had come into a foreign country . Like the traveller of Horace , I had crossed the sea , and had changed nothing but the sky . Everything around and about me ...
Side 41
... land , and so , perhaps , it is relatively to the other papers , but , actually , I should say that the less pre- dominated over the more . It labours , too , under the general stigma of jobbery , which hangs over the whole THE AMERICAN ...
... land , and so , perhaps , it is relatively to the other papers , but , actually , I should say that the less pre- dominated over the more . It labours , too , under the general stigma of jobbery , which hangs over the whole THE AMERICAN ...
Side 59
... lands . Especially in the Western States , the uniformity in the dress and appear- ance of your fellow - passengers is wonderfully striking— nobody is shabbily dressed , very few are handsomely dressed , and everybody is dressed ...
... lands . Especially in the Western States , the uniformity in the dress and appear- ance of your fellow - passengers is wonderfully striking— nobody is shabbily dressed , very few are handsomely dressed , and everybody is dressed ...
Side 64
... land is a Slave State , and therefore disloyal . It was thus , as I entered Washington , that the bear- ing of the slave question upon the war was practically brought home to me . Before , then , I speak of Wash- ington , it is time to ...
... land is a Slave State , and therefore disloyal . It was thus , as I entered Washington , that the bear- ing of the slave question upon the war was practically brought home to me . Before , then , I speak of Wash- ington , it is time to ...
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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.