Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie |
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... knew no hypocrisies . Trained in such a school , he became a thinker and a worker ; his associations were altogether with plain and practical people ; he was never flushed with feverish fancies , nor discouraged at any disappointments ...
... knew no hypocrisies . Trained in such a school , he became a thinker and a worker ; his associations were altogether with plain and practical people ; he was never flushed with feverish fancies , nor discouraged at any disappointments ...
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... knew nothing . I was talking , " he added , " with massa and missus dis mornin ' , and missus asked me , ' Tom what you tink of dem Yankees ? ' " Ah , ' says I , ' missus , I don ' don't like em at all . Dey won't have nothin ' to say ...
... knew nothing . I was talking , " he added , " with massa and missus dis mornin ' , and missus asked me , ' Tom what you tink of dem Yankees ? ' " Ah , ' says I , ' missus , I don ' don't like em at all . Dey won't have nothin ' to say ...
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... knew not , but in five days he returned , his appearance indicating that he had been exposed to severe treatment . He told me that he was taken to the old county jail , was there incarcerated in a damp , filthy , and bedless cell ...
... knew not , but in five days he returned , his appearance indicating that he had been exposed to severe treatment . He told me that he was taken to the old county jail , was there incarcerated in a damp , filthy , and bedless cell ...
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... knew full well , however , the odium in which the Mobilians held all who opposed human bondage as legalized in the Confederacy . I felt that we were indeed among enemies and barbarians . We were driven like yoked bondmen to the heart of ...
... knew full well , however , the odium in which the Mobilians held all who opposed human bondage as legalized in the Confederacy . I felt that we were indeed among enemies and barbarians . We were driven like yoked bondmen to the heart of ...
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... knew little about secular matters , he had opportunity to learn even less of religion ! But despite all the efforts to keep the slaves in ignorance , both by legal enactments and tyrannical vigilance , very many of them gained a ...
... knew little about secular matters , he had opportunity to learn even less of religion ! But despite all the efforts to keep the slaves in ignorance , both by legal enactments and tyrannical vigilance , very many of them gained a ...
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Page 210 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 156 - Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of slavery; but they could scarcely obtain a reading.
Page 210 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 257 - Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea ! Jehovah hath triumphed ! His people are free ! 2 Praise to the Conqueror ! praise to the Lord ! His word was our arrow, His breath was our sword.
Page 210 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 149 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
Page 252 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 227 - Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright, Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 210 - It was said, that we had just assumed a place among independent nations, in consequence of our opposition to the attempts of Great Britain to enslave us; that this opposition was grounded upon the preservation of those rights to which God and nature had entitled us, not in particular, but in common with all the rest of mankind...
Page 181 - My days are gliding swiftly by, and I a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, those hours of toil and danger...