Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie |
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... speaking with more correctness , to strip from the hideous skeleton of Slavery all its gaily painted and deceptive cloaks and masks , and to exhibit it in all its ghastly repulsiveness . It is my purpose in the succeeding pages to ...
... speaking with more correctness , to strip from the hideous skeleton of Slavery all its gaily painted and deceptive cloaks and masks , and to exhibit it in all its ghastly repulsiveness . It is my purpose in the succeeding pages to ...
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... speak angrily to him , for such a course would more effectually deceive the guards . I did as he had directed , and he de- murred , declaring that he wished dem " Yankees would mend dar own close . " The guards in a peremptory tone ...
... speak angrily to him , for such a course would more effectually deceive the guards . I did as he had directed , and he de- murred , declaring that he wished dem " Yankees would mend dar own close . " The guards in a peremptory tone ...
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... speak . But while I was in the Montgomery penitentiary , during the brief space of thirty hours , two inmates were released and paid eight hundred dollars each to · enter the service as substitutes . This I wit- A YANKEE PRISONER LOOSE ...
... speak . But while I was in the Montgomery penitentiary , during the brief space of thirty hours , two inmates were released and paid eight hundred dollars each to · enter the service as substitutes . This I wit- A YANKEE PRISONER LOOSE ...
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... speak a few words to the man so soon to die . The conditions on which I obtained the favor were that my instructions should be given in the keeper's presence . Looking through the iron bars at my sinful but unfortunate auditor , I said ...
... speak a few words to the man so soon to die . The conditions on which I obtained the favor were that my instructions should be given in the keeper's presence . Looking through the iron bars at my sinful but unfortunate auditor , I said ...
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... speak more at length . The city in which we had temporarily halted quartered a large force of rebel soldiers , the majority of them better clad than any we had yet met . The place itself , extending one mile and a quarter in the ...
... speak more at length . The city in which we had temporarily halted quartered a large force of rebel soldiers , the majority of them better clad than any we had yet met . The place itself , extending one mile and a quarter in the ...
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Page 264 - 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 221 - 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 168 - 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 173 - God with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the King, and all good Men in Authority under him.
Page 222 - 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 198 - ... that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you...
Page 222 - 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 239 - 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 222 - 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 54 - FAITH OF OUR FATHERS. LM FAITH of our fathers, living still, In spite of dungeon, fire, and sword ; O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene'er we hear that glorious word ! Faith of our fathers, holy faith ! We will be true to thee till death.