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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... proud an eminence among the nations of the earth . I purpose to fix these facts in the firmament of truth , so grouped that the most care- less observer of that field can easily see and compre- SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY. ...
... proud an eminence among the nations of the earth . I purpose to fix these facts in the firmament of truth , so grouped that the most care- less observer of that field can easily see and compre- SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY. ...
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... less observer of that field can easily see and compre- hend them ; and so that the children of the South can readily grasp them , and with them confound the ma- ligners of their fathers and their native land whenever occasion calls for ...
... less observer of that field can easily see and compre- hend them ; and so that the children of the South can readily grasp them , and with them confound the ma- ligners of their fathers and their native land whenever occasion calls for ...
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... less an authority than Rear Admiral George E. Belknap , of the United States navy , says that , for the ease and accuracy with which the depths of the sea are now measured , the world is in- debted primarily to the invention of John M ...
... less an authority than Rear Admiral George E. Belknap , of the United States navy , says that , for the ease and accuracy with which the depths of the sea are now measured , the world is in- debted primarily to the invention of John M ...
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... 1861 he heard Wendell Phillips make a speech in Boston in which " he preached the doctrine of rapine , blood- shed and social destruction " against the South . poses was in Massachusetts ? Did not no less a 30 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
... 1861 he heard Wendell Phillips make a speech in Boston in which " he preached the doctrine of rapine , blood- shed and social destruction " against the South . poses was in Massachusetts ? Did not no less a 30 SOME TRUTHS OF HISTORY .
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... less a per- sonage than the Governor of that State say so ? 1 Another instance of the superior brand of civiliza- tion furnished by Massachusetts is given by Madame de Riedesel , wife of a German general in Burgoyne's army , who says in ...
... less a per- sonage than the Governor of that State say so ? 1 Another instance of the superior brand of civiliza- tion furnished by Massachusetts is given by Madame de Riedesel , wife of a German general in Burgoyne's army , who says in ...
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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...