Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... party were playing faro at the time , clinging to the table with one hand , and clutching their cards with the other , when the wave washed both players and tables away to the end of the cabin . One of them , a friend of mine , sprung ...
... party were playing faro at the time , clinging to the table with one hand , and clutching their cards with the other , when the wave washed both players and tables away to the end of the cabin . One of them , a friend of mine , sprung ...
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... parties , and the opera was not regularly open , partly because public feeling was averse to much gaiety ; partly , and still more , because the wealthy classes had retrenched all superfluous expendi- ture with a really wonderful ...
... parties , and the opera was not regularly open , partly because public feeling was averse to much gaiety ; partly , and still more , because the wealthy classes had retrenched all superfluous expendi- ture with a really wonderful ...
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... party was a very select one ; but , to my surprise , I met there the correspondent of the New York Herald with his family . The cause of my surprise , I need hardly say , was not at a newspaper correspondent being present - in truth ...
... party was a very select one ; but , to my surprise , I met there the correspondent of the New York Herald with his family . The cause of my surprise , I need hardly say , was not at a newspaper correspondent being present - in truth ...
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... parties are agreed . The Herald is a very valuable property ; and its net profits are said to vary from £ 20,000 to £ 30,000 annually . With the one virtue , too , that a Scotchman can never get rid of , Mr. Bennett is not personally ...
... parties are agreed . The Herald is a very valuable property ; and its net profits are said to vary from £ 20,000 to £ 30,000 annually . With the one virtue , too , that a Scotchman can never get rid of , Mr. Bennett is not personally ...
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... party , of whom Mr. Seward and Mr. Thurlow Weed are the leaders in the State of New York ; and as this party has never yet been able to look the slavery question boldly in the face , their organ shares in their indecision , and their ...
... party , of whom Mr. Seward and Mr. Thurlow Weed are the leaders in the State of New York ; and as this party has never yet been able to look the slavery question boldly in the face , their organ shares in their indecision , and their ...
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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.