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... side seemed covered with camps . The white tents caught your eye on all sides ; and across the river , where the dense brushwood obscured the prospect , the great army of the Potomac stretched miles away , right up to the advanced posts ...
... side seemed covered with camps . The white tents caught your eye on all sides ; and across the river , where the dense brushwood obscured the prospect , the great army of the Potomac stretched miles away , right up to the advanced posts ...
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... side we were stopped by the sentries , had our passes carefully in- spected , and then allowed to pass . Close to this bridge the tide on the Potomac stops . The difference in the look of the river above and below Yorktown is very ...
... side we were stopped by the sentries , had our passes carefully in- spected , and then allowed to pass . Close to this bridge the tide on the Potomac stops . The difference in the look of the river above and below Yorktown is very ...
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... side of the vale of Albury , than Richmond Park or Blenheim . The timber , however - a circum- stance which is rare in America - is remarkably fine , and the aspect of Washington owes the chief part of what little beauty it possesses to ...
... side of the vale of Albury , than Richmond Park or Blenheim . The timber , however - a circum- stance which is rare in America - is remarkably fine , and the aspect of Washington owes the chief part of what little beauty it possesses to ...
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... side . The whole ground was covered with stray leaves of tracts and bibles , which some Southern religious society had obviously been dis- tributing amongst the troops . Letters , too , were to be picked up by dozens ; and , indeed ...
... side . The whole ground was covered with stray leaves of tracts and bibles , which some Southern religious society had obviously been dis- tributing amongst the troops . Letters , too , were to be picked up by dozens ; and , indeed ...
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... side , and a deep mountain stream rolling down the midst . Every three or four miles you pass a cotton factory , and the high smoke - begrimed chimneys , the river - side mills , and the stone - built , slate - roofed houses , give it a ...
... side , and a deep mountain stream rolling down the midst . Every three or four miles you pass a cotton factory , and the high smoke - begrimed chimneys , the river - side mills , and the stone - built , slate - roofed houses , give it a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists American amongst anti-slavery battle believe Boston Cairo Cambridge camp cause Church colour Confederate Constitution crowded Democratic doubt EDWARD DICEY emancipation England English Englishman existence fact fancy favour federacy Federal army feeling fighting Fort Sumter Franz Sigel friends German Government ground honour houses hundred Illinois James River Kentucky labour Lanark land look Louis Louisville Massachusetts McClellan ment miles military mind Mississippi Nashville nation negro never North Northern Odin Ohio Ohio river once papers party passed Patrick Donahoe patriotism persons pleasant political popular Potomac prairie question Racine railroad regiments Republican Richmond river road secession Secessionists seemed sentiment settlers side Slave slave power slavery soldiers South Southern standing strange streets Tennessee thing thousand tion told town travelling troops truth Union Virginia volunteer Washington Wendell Phillips West Western whole wooden
Pasajes populares
Página 199 - administration, their property, and their " peace, and personal security, are to be endangered. " There has never been any reasonable cause for such " apprehension. Indeed the most ample evidence to " the contrary has all the while existed, and been open " to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the " public speeches of him who now addresses
Página 311 - independence. If the North had but dared to take for its battle-cry the grand preamble of the Declaration of Independence :—" We hold these truths to be self" evident, that all men are created equal; that
Página 199 - late, of the rights of the States, and especially the " right of each State to order and control its own " domestic institutions according to its own judgment " exclusively, is essential to that balance of power
Página 200 - fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless " invasion, by armed force, of the soil of any State or " Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the " gravest of crimes.'
Página 199 - do but quote from one of these speeches when I " declare that ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, " to interfere with the institution of slavery in the " States where it exists.' I believe I have no lawful " right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. " Those who nominated and elected me did so with the " full knowledge that I had made this, and
Página 254 - Through the thick gloom of the present we see the " brightness of the future as the sun in heaven. We " shall make this a glorious and immortal day. When " we are in our graves our children will
Página 196 - They must revive the slave trade, with all its train of " atrocities. They must blow out the moral lights " around us, and extinguish that greatest torch of all, " which America presents to a benighted world, pointing " the way to their rights, their liberties, and their
Página 199 - form for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves " and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I " now read:—' Resolved, that the maintenance, invio
Página 196 - their work will be yet incomplete. They must " penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of " reason and the love of liberty. Then, and not till " then, when universal darkness and despair prevail, " can you perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies " and all humane and benevolent efforts among free " men, in behalf of the unhappy portion of our race
Página 7 - men were almost unknown. I have seen the armies of most European countries; and I have no hesitation in saying that, as far as the average raw material of the rank and file is concerned, the American army is the finest. The officers are, undoubtedly, the weak point of the system. They have not