The Stars and Bars: Or, The Reign of Terror in MissouriA. Williams & Company, 1864 - 324 oldal |
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41. oldal
... Uncle Tom's Cabin , " among his stock . A mob of three or four hundred men took the unfortunate man a mile or two out of the village , chained him to his wagon , and burned him to death by a fire made chiefly of his own books . In vain ...
... Uncle Tom's Cabin , " among his stock . A mob of three or four hundred men took the unfortunate man a mile or two out of the village , chained him to his wagon , and burned him to death by a fire made chiefly of his own books . In vain ...
77. oldal
... Uncle ! " said Mrs. South- down , speaking from the open window , " I've been wishing you'd come ; I'm so lonesome to- day . " " You may soon wish me gone again , " re- sponded he , and coming in with a twinkle of humor in his eye ...
... Uncle ! " said Mrs. South- down , speaking from the open window , " I've been wishing you'd come ; I'm so lonesome to- day . " " You may soon wish me gone again , " re- sponded he , and coming in with a twinkle of humor in his eye ...
78. oldal
... Uncle , Missouri mail - coaches , these unblessed days , would sure break down . " " Ha ! the very earth would reel , crack , and cave in . " " I dread to hear the news that's next to sa- lute our ears . " " To borrow trouble is but to ...
... Uncle , Missouri mail - coaches , these unblessed days , would sure break down . " " Ha ! the very earth would reel , crack , and cave in . " " I dread to hear the news that's next to sa- lute our ears . " " To borrow trouble is but to ...
81. oldal
... to and fro across the floor with nervous and rapid strides . " Patience , Uncle , patience ! " insisted Mrs. Southdown . " It is a time for humility and prayer . " " If there , ever was a time to curse OR , THE REIGN OF TERROR . 81.
... to and fro across the floor with nervous and rapid strides . " Patience , Uncle , patience ! " insisted Mrs. Southdown . " It is a time for humility and prayer . " " If there , ever was a time to curse OR , THE REIGN OF TERROR . 81.
82. oldal
... Uncle Ned . " " Black outside , but not so dark within as many a man of fairer skin , " soliloquized Knick- erbocker , mentally , as the slave entered , hat in hand , and bowing at every step with all the politeness , if not with all ...
... Uncle Ned . " " Black outside , but not so dark within as many a man of fairer skin , " soliloquized Knick- erbocker , mentally , as the slave entered , hat in hand , and bowing at every step with all the politeness , if not with all ...
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254. oldal - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
255. oldal - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
250. oldal - ... of war upon us, who but this convention will be held responsible for it ; and who but him who shall have given his vote for this unwise and ill-timed measure...
129. oldal - ... death, now and forever, stand by the stars and stripes. They have been unfurled from the snows of Canada to the plains of New Orleans, in the halls of the Montezumas and amid the solitude of every sea , and everywhere, as the luminous symbol of resistless and beneficent power, they have led the brave to victory and to glory. They have floated over our cradles ; let it be our prayer and our struggle that they shall float over our graves.
314. oldal - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
254. oldal - But' again, gentlemen, what have we to gain by this proposed change of our relation to the General Government ? We have always had the control of it; and can yet, if we remain in it, and are as united as we have been.
135. oldal - Government in the paternal spirit in which a father seeks to reclaim his erring offspring. No conquest, no effusion of blood is sought. In sorrow, not in anger, the prayer of all is, that the end may be reached without loss of life or waste of property. Among the most powerful instrumentalities relied on for re-establishing the authority of the Government, is that of the Union sentiment of the South, sustained by a liberated press. It is now trodden to the earth under a reign of terrorism which has...
251. oldal - What interest of the South has been invaded ? What justice has been denied ? and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld...
253. oldal - States have been carved, and ample territory to be added in due time, if you, by this unwise and impolitic act, do not destroy this hope, and, perhaps, by it lose all, and have your last slave wrenched from you...