Six Months in the Federal States, Volúmenes 1-2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... popular delusion in England , that New York is a sort of gingerbread - and - gilt city ; and that , contrasted with an English town , there is a want of solidity about the whole place , materially as well as morally . On the contrary ...
... popular delusion in England , that New York is a sort of gingerbread - and - gilt city ; and that , contrasted with an English town , there is a want of solidity about the whole place , materially as well as morally . On the contrary ...
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Edward Dicey. There was as little look of public distress as of popular excitement . The port and quays were crowded with shipping . Broadway was daily rendered almost im- passable by the never - ending string of carts and omni- buses ...
Edward Dicey. There was as little look of public distress as of popular excitement . The port and quays were crowded with shipping . Broadway was daily rendered almost im- passable by the never - ending string of carts and omni- buses ...
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... popular impressions as to the American press , prevailing in England , both of which I think erroneous . The first is , that it is a very cheap press ; the second , that it is a very scurrilous one . To sub- scribers it is undoubtedly ...
... popular impressions as to the American press , prevailing in England , both of which I think erroneous . The first is , that it is a very cheap press ; the second , that it is a very scurrilous one . To sub- scribers it is undoubtedly ...
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... popular feeling of the Free States towards the free negro . Like most popular feelings , it has a basis of truth . In every Northern city , the poorest , the most thriftless , and perhaps the most troublesome part of the population ...
... popular feeling of the Free States towards the free negro . Like most popular feelings , it has a basis of truth . In every Northern city , the poorest , the most thriftless , and perhaps the most troublesome part of the population ...
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... popular Northern mind since the outbreak of Seces- sion . At the period of my first visit to New York , it was the great incident of the day . In the opinion of those best competent to judge , this execution was one of the severest ...
... popular Northern mind since the outbreak of Seces- sion . At the period of my first visit to New York , it was the great incident of the day . In the opinion of those best competent to judge , this execution was one of the severest ...
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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.