Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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Side 12
... live in such houses ; and , secondly , how little artistic taste there must be amongst a people who , with such incomes , are content to live in dwellings of such external unattractiveness . The poorer streets , towards the banks of the ...
... live in such houses ; and , secondly , how little artistic taste there must be amongst a people who , with such incomes , are content to live in dwellings of such external unattractiveness . The poorer streets , towards the banks of the ...
Side 91
... live till then ; and , in obedience to their duty , the authorities of the gaol had him executed in the courtyard of the Tombs Prison , at noon . Very few persons were present : and when I passed the prison an hour afterwards , there ...
... live till then ; and , in obedience to their duty , the authorities of the gaol had him executed in the courtyard of the Tombs Prison , at noon . Very few persons were present : and when I passed the prison an hour afterwards , there ...
Side 94
... live in hotels or furnished lodgings . The wives and families of the married members ( whose names are marked in the Congressional Directory , with a row of crosses corre- sponding to the number of womankind they bring with them ) come ...
... live in hotels or furnished lodgings . The wives and families of the married members ( whose names are marked in the Congressional Directory , with a row of crosses corre- sponding to the number of womankind they bring with them ) come ...
Side 174
... live with free- speech , and she cannot . The real question is to- day as to what extent she can trample free - speech under her feet . The South is as sincere as we are in this struggle . Ten millions of people grapple twenty millions ...
... live with free- speech , and she cannot . The real question is to- day as to what extent she can trample free - speech under her feet . The South is as sincere as we are in this struggle . Ten millions of people grapple twenty millions ...
Side 177
... live , in my opinion , unless it does mean justice : it has no other source of life but justice . It is a neck - and - neck race between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis , which shall get the negroes on his side . Davis is on the ...
... live , in my opinion , unless it does mean justice : it has no other source of life but justice . It is a neck - and - neck race between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis , which shall get the negroes on his side . Davis is on the ...
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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.