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... NOTABILITIES OF WASHINGTON MR . RUSSELL AND MR . STANTON GLIMPSES OF SLAVERY ENGLAND AND AMERICA . POLITICAL SPECULATIONS AMERICAN SOCIETY PAGE 190 217 238 251 267 278 299 SIX MONTHS IN THE FEDERAL STATES . OUT AT SEA X CONTENTS .
... NOTABILITIES OF WASHINGTON MR . RUSSELL AND MR . STANTON GLIMPSES OF SLAVERY ENGLAND AND AMERICA . POLITICAL SPECULATIONS AMERICAN SOCIETY PAGE 190 217 238 251 267 278 299 SIX MONTHS IN THE FEDERAL STATES . OUT AT SEA X CONTENTS .
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... American fellow - passengers received the intelligence gloomily . Still , the charm of seeing land again was enough to make us forget all political troubles ; and , apart from that , the approach through the Narrows into the land ...
... American fellow - passengers received the intelligence gloomily . Still , the charm of seeing land again was enough to make us forget all political troubles ; and , apart from that , the approach through the Narrows into the land ...
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... stunted trees on either side give it , in parts , a French look ; but still , when I had once heard a candid American describe it as a " one - horse boule- yard , I felt he had produced a description which NEW YORK . 11.
... stunted trees on either side give it , in parts , a French look ; but still , when I had once heard a candid American describe it as a " one - horse boule- yard , I felt he had produced a description which NEW YORK . 11.
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... American name of the Street of Palaces ; while its monotony is dreadful . The other streets of the fashionable quarters are inferior editions of the Fifth Avenue , and suggested to me , just as our own districts of Tyburnia and ...
... American name of the Street of Palaces ; while its monotony is dreadful . The other streets of the fashionable quarters are inferior editions of the Fifth Avenue , and suggested to me , just as our own districts of Tyburnia and ...
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... American friend of mine , who , I must add , is a firm follower of Mr. Buckle , has a theory , that the Red Indian is the type of face created by Nature for America ; and that there is an irresistible tendency in each succeeding gene ...
... American friend of mine , who , I must add , is a firm follower of Mr. Buckle , has a theory , that the Red Indian is the type of face created by Nature for America ; and that there is an irresistible tendency in each succeeding gene ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.