Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... doubt the 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 ...
... doubt the 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 ...
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... doubt , much mercantile distress ; and the shopkeepers , who depended on the sale of luxuries to the wealthy classes , were doing a poor trade . But work was plentiful , and the distress , as yet , had not gone down deep . There were ...
... doubt , much mercantile distress ; and the shopkeepers , who depended on the sale of luxuries to the wealthy classes , were doing a poor trade . But work was plentiful , and the distress , as yet , had not gone down deep . There were ...
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... doubt myself that the Herald , in spite of many assertions I have heard made to the contrary , has far the largest circulation of any American daily paper . Away from the North , it is the only New York paper that you come across ...
... doubt myself that the Herald , in spite of many assertions I have heard made to the contrary , has far the largest circulation of any American daily paper . Away from the North , it is the only New York paper that you come across ...
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... doubt the in- fluence of the Herald , pandering , as it does , not with- out real ability , to the prejudices and vanity of the American people , is no unimportant element in the political world . As to Mr. Bennett's social position ...
... doubt the in- fluence of the Herald , pandering , as it does , not with- out real ability , to the prejudices and vanity of the American people , is no unimportant element in the political world . As to Mr. Bennett's social position ...
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... doubt it is a case of great cry and a good deal of wool . " 66 ፡፡ " A correspondent says that Beauregard made a very " good moral address to his army the other day . Pro- bably , he thought his troops so demoralised , that they ...
... doubt it is a case of great cry and a good deal of wool . " 66 ፡፡ " A correspondent says that Beauregard made a very " good moral address to his army the other day . Pro- bably , he thought his troops so demoralised , that they ...
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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.