Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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Side 4
... seemed fused together in one watery mist of foam and spray . At last , a monster wave struck us dead upon the larboard side ( I hope that is the correct nautical term ) , broke the stout beams of the deck - cabin as though they had been ...
... seemed fused together in one watery mist of foam and spray . At last , a monster wave struck us dead upon the larboard side ( I hope that is the correct nautical term ) , broke the stout beams of the deck - cabin as though they had been ...
Side 7
... seemed to succeed each other in a never - ending pano- rama ; we floated onwards , towards the long low black line which marked the city of New York . The waters of the bay were calm and blue , like those of a Southern sea ; and against ...
... seemed to succeed each other in a never - ending pano- rama ; we floated onwards , towards the long low black line which marked the city of New York . The waters of the bay were calm and blue , like those of a Southern sea ; and against ...
Side 8
... 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 looked so like the Old ...
... 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 looked so like the Old ...
Side 21
... seemed to threaten the whole street with destruction . But the engines were too hard at work to give the fire a chance ; the river lay fortunately near at hand ; and there was a perfect crowd of volunteers ready to work the pumps with ...
... seemed to threaten the whole street with destruction . But the engines were too hard at work to give the fire a chance ; the river lay fortunately near at hand ; and there was a perfect crowd of volunteers ready to work the pumps with ...
Side 22
... to make one somewhat sceptical as to the truth of our common impression about its demo- cratic lawlessness . I had left England at the time when the fortunes of the Federal cause seemed the lowest , and when New 22 NEW YORK .
... to make one somewhat sceptical as to the truth of our common impression about its demo- cratic lawlessness . I had left England at the time when the fortunes of the Federal cause seemed the lowest , and when New 22 NEW YORK .
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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.