Some Truths of History: A Vindication of the South Against the Encyclopedia Britannica and Other MalignersByrd Printing Company, 1903 - 263 páginas |
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... Stephens's great work , ' The War Between the States , ' had fallen , as it were , ' still - born ' from the press ; that it was unread at the South ; that the edu- cated man at the South who knew anything of its contents was a ' rara ...
... Stephens's great work , ' The War Between the States , ' had fallen , as it were , ' still - born ' from the press ; that it was unread at the South ; that the edu- cated man at the South who knew anything of its contents was a ' rara ...
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... Stephen D. Lee - still lives , in hale old age , and will ever live in the hearts of his countrymen , for no brighter blade than his ever flashed in the battle's front to save their loved homes from war's desolation . The first of these ...
... Stephen D. Lee - still lives , in hale old age , and will ever live in the hearts of his countrymen , for no brighter blade than his ever flashed in the battle's front to save their loved homes from war's desolation . The first of these ...
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... unknown Virginian . " - Herndon's Life of Lincoln , vol . 1 , p . 3 . 2. Capt . John Rodgers , of Maryland . 3 . Andrew Jackson . 4. Stephen Decatur . carried it , and wrested from England an honor she 20 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
... unknown Virginian . " - Herndon's Life of Lincoln , vol . 1 , p . 3 . 2. Capt . John Rodgers , of Maryland . 3 . Andrew Jackson . 4. Stephen Decatur . carried it , and wrested from England an honor she 20 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
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... Stephen Decatur , the most celebrated commander of his time in the American navy , whose daring and efficiency challenged the attention and admiration of the civilized world , and whose tragic and untimely death plunged this whole ...
... Stephen Decatur , the most celebrated commander of his time in the American navy , whose daring and efficiency challenged the attention and admiration of the civilized world , and whose tragic and untimely death plunged this whole ...
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... Stephen F. Austin , or to the Alamo , that American Thermopyla , where Bowie , and Crockett , and Travis - Southerners all- and their comrades met death and covered themselves and the American name with undying glory . If the Alamo had ...
... Stephen F. Austin , or to the Alamo , that American Thermopyla , where Bowie , and Crockett , and Travis - Southerners all- and their comrades met death and covered themselves and the American name with undying glory . If the Alamo had ...
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Página 161 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship - and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low - lang and late may it be yours!
Página 161 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 161 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 33 - The Commanding General therefore earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain with most scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private property ; and he enjoins upon all officers to arrest and bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on this subject. RE LEE, General.
Página 33 - There have, however, been instances of forgetfulness on the part of some that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties exacted of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.
Página 161 - O madam, if ever ye kend what it was to sorrow for and with a sinning and a suffering creature, whose mind is sae tossed that she can be neither ca'd fit to live or die, have some compassion on our misery! — Save an honest house from dishonour, and an unhappy girl, not eighteen years of age, from an early and dreadful death!
Página 195 - States to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedents which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect union, by dissolving that which could no longer bind ; and to leave the separated parts to be reunited by the law of political gravitation to the centre.
Página 147 - ... to form a new government — He candidly confessed that they were not intended for a federal government — he meant a strong consolidated union, in which the idea of states should be nearly annihilated.
Página 56 - That it will be a federal and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors; the act of the people, as forming so many independent states, not as forming one aggregate nation, is obvious from this single consideration, that it is to result neither from the decision of a majority of the people of the Union nor from that of a majority of the states. It must result from the unanimous assent of the several states that are parties to it, differing no otherwise from their ordinary...
Página 33 - Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession...