Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... cause of this general equality is the absence of the classes brutalized by poverty whom you see in all our great cities . There is a great deal of poverty in New York , and the Five Points quarter - the Seven Dials of the city - is 16 ...
... cause of this general equality is the absence of the classes brutalized by poverty whom you see in all our great cities . There is a great deal of poverty in New York , and the Five Points quarter - the Seven Dials of the city - is 16 ...
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... causes , and from the almost universal diffusion of education , there is no class exactly analo- gous to our English idea of the mob . The fact that well - nigh everybody you meet is comfortably dressed seems to disprove the existence ...
... causes , and from the almost universal diffusion of education , there is no class exactly analo- gous to our English idea of the mob . The fact that well - nigh everybody you meet is comfortably dressed seems to disprove the existence ...
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... caused by some brewer's dray , which chose to stand still at the side of the narrow street . Anybody has a right to get into the cars or omnibuses so long as he can squeeze his way in ; and thus the cars - in them- selves the most ...
... caused by some brewer's dray , which chose to stand still at the side of the narrow street . Anybody has a right to get into the cars or omnibuses so long as he can squeeze his way in ; and thus the cars - in them- selves the most ...
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... cause of all this obstruc- tion is , that the contractor who has undertaken to keep the streets clean has failed to fulfil the spirit , if not the letter , of his contract . Everybody grumbles - just as we do in London when a gas ...
... cause of all this obstruc- tion is , that the contractor who has undertaken to keep the streets clean has failed to fulfil the spirit , if not the letter , of his contract . Everybody grumbles - just as we do in London when a gas ...
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... itself 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 .
... itself 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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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.