The Stars and Bars: Or, The Reign of Terror in MissouriA. Williams & Company, 1864 - 324 oldal |
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... treason ; and convinced that the great body of the Northern people have no adequate conception of the actual state of things at the South ; and persuaded , also , that there is an apathy at the North , from which pa- triots need to be ...
... treason ; and convinced that the great body of the Northern people have no adequate conception of the actual state of things at the South ; and persuaded , also , that there is an apathy at the North , from which pa- triots need to be ...
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... treason in the most unscrupu- lous and reckless manner ; sanctioned the mur- der of political heretics , as Union men were esteemed ; apologized for perjury , in disregard- ing the oath of allegiance ; and justified all the diabolical ...
... treason in the most unscrupu- lous and reckless manner ; sanctioned the mur- der of political heretics , as Union men were esteemed ; apologized for perjury , in disregard- ing the oath of allegiance ; and justified all the diabolical ...
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... treason touched her deepest , her husband , - and said : — - " Has it come to this , our house the resort of rebels ? " " Rebels ! Rebels ! " echoed the disloyal as- sociates of her husband , exchanging sharp glances , and putting on an ...
... treason touched her deepest , her husband , - and said : — - " Has it come to this , our house the resort of rebels ? " " Rebels ! Rebels ! " echoed the disloyal as- sociates of her husband , exchanging sharp glances , and putting on an ...
58. oldal
... treason that would de- stroy a government like this , and sunder our glorious Union , no tongue can tell , no pencil can paint . The arch apostate , that rebelled in heaven , conspiring against the Almighty , and who , in reckless ...
... treason that would de- stroy a government like this , and sunder our glorious Union , no tongue can tell , no pencil can paint . The arch apostate , that rebelled in heaven , conspiring against the Almighty , and who , in reckless ...
59. oldal
... treason ! " " And still you rail ! " " Suppose you succeed in laying in ruins the fair fabric of this mighty Republic , how much better off will you be than Milton's fallen angels when they had reached the depths of perdition ? But ...
... treason ! " " And still you rail ! " " Suppose you succeed in laying in ruins the fair fabric of this mighty Republic , how much better off will you be than Milton's fallen angels when they had reached the depths of perdition ? But ...
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The Stars and Bars: Or the Reign of Terror in Missouri (Classic Reprint) Isaac Kelso Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
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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...