Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... execution was one of the severest blows yet struck against the whole system of slavery . It is on this account that I have recorded its general outline . It is now more than forty years ago — if I am not mistaken , in the year 1818 ...
... execution was one of the severest blows yet struck against the whole system of slavery . It is on this account that I have recorded its general outline . It is now more than forty years ago — if I am not mistaken , in the year 1818 ...
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... executed . It was believed that the long delay in the trial , the fact that the law had never yet been put into force , and , above all , the supposed unwillingness of the Government to take any step which would place them in direct ...
... executed . It was believed that the long delay in the trial , the fact that the law had never yet been put into force , and , above all , the supposed unwillingness of the Government to take any step which would place them in direct ...
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... executed . I have reason , too , to know that Mr. Seward did his best to support Mr. Lincoln in this de- termination . Speaking to me about the case shortly afterwards , the Secretary of State remarked , emphatically , that the ...
... executed . I have reason , too , to know that Mr. Seward did his best to support Mr. Lincoln in this de- termination . Speaking to me about the case shortly afterwards , the Secretary of State remarked , emphatically , that the ...
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... execution , on the ground that by the State law of New York , no condemned culprit could be executed till he had been imprisoned for a year after judgment was passed upon him ; and that therefore Captain Gordon , though an United States ...
... execution , on the ground that by the State law of New York , no condemned culprit could be executed till he had been imprisoned for a year after judgment was passed upon him ; and that therefore Captain Gordon , though an United States ...
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... execution for a " crime which has been virtually a dead - letter for forty 66 years . Shall this young man be quietly allowed to be " made the victim of fanaticism ? " The placard ended with a summons to the people to attend a meeting ...
... execution for a " crime which has been virtually a dead - letter for forty 66 years . Shall this young man be quietly allowed to be " made the victim of fanaticism ? " The placard ended with a summons to the people to attend a meeting ...
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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.