Six Months in the Federal States, Volumer 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... supposed to possess architectural merits ; and there is the Croton Aqueduct , interesting to engineers . Still , with all deference to my New York friends , I hardly think that a European traveller need go far out of his way to visit ...
... supposed to possess architectural merits ; and there is the Croton Aqueduct , interesting to engineers . Still , with all deference to my New York friends , I hardly think that a European traveller need go far out of his way to visit ...
Side 41
... supposed to be more or less favourable to Eng- 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 ...
... supposed to be more or less favourable to Eng- 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 ...
Side 44
... supposed to have a special talent for manufacturing facetiæ , and as the Prenticeiana are quoted throughout the Union papers , I shall give the reader a fair impression of what American varieties consist of , by quoting half - a - dozen ...
... supposed to have a special talent for manufacturing facetiæ , and as the Prenticeiana are quoted throughout the Union papers , I shall give the reader a fair impression of what American varieties consist of , by quoting half - a - dozen ...
Side 83
... supposed to be engaged in the traffic , the trade had been , relatively , but little prosecuted . It is just also to admit , that such slave - trading as there was , was carried on by Northern and not by Southern men . The North had far ...
... supposed to be engaged in the traffic , the trade had been , relatively , but little prosecuted . It is just also to admit , that such slave - trading as there was , was carried on by Northern and not by Southern men . The North had far ...
Side 87
... supposed unwillingness of the Government to take any step which would place them in direct opposition to the slaveholding interest , would prove adequate grounds for the remission of the capital sentence . The prisoner was not wanting ...
... supposed unwillingness of the Government to take any step which would place them in direct opposition to the slaveholding interest , would prove adequate grounds for the remission of the capital sentence . The prisoner was not wanting ...
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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.