Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 8Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... received a set - back through the invention of the cotton - gin , an inven- tion which enormously increased the economic value of slave labor and greatly stimulated the demand for slaves . Before the Revolution , com- paratively little ...
... received a set - back through the invention of the cotton - gin , an inven- tion which enormously increased the economic value of slave labor and greatly stimulated the demand for slaves . Before the Revolution , com- paratively little ...
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... received the entire output of his ser- vices . He was housed in a small one- room shanty , and the warm climate . necessitated but the simplest clothing , while the cost of food was inconsider- able . The slave's labor being com ...
... received the entire output of his ser- vices . He was housed in a small one- room shanty , and the warm climate . necessitated but the simplest clothing , while the cost of food was inconsider- able . The slave's labor being com ...
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... received word of Lincoln's intention to resist force with force it was said that Vir- ginia had but one course to pursue . Accordingly , on April 17 , by a vote of 88 to 55 , the ordinance of secession was passed . Although the law re ...
... received word of Lincoln's intention to resist force with force it was said that Vir- ginia had but one course to pursue . Accordingly , on April 17 , by a vote of 88 to 55 , the ordinance of secession was passed . Although the law re ...
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... received unless they agreed to volun- teer for three years unless sooner dis- charged . On May 3 he issued a proc- lamation calling for 42,034 volunteers to serve for three years ; directing that the regular army be increased by eight ...
... received unless they agreed to volun- teer for three years unless sooner dis- charged . On May 3 he issued a proc- lamation calling for 42,034 volunteers to serve for three years ; directing that the regular army be increased by eight ...
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... received informa- tion of this and determined to move immediately against the camp , for he feared that a longer delay might en- able the camp to assume proportions so formidable as to endanger the safety of the State . At 2 o'clock on ...
... received informa- tion of this and determined to move immediately against the camp , for he feared that a longer delay might en- able the camp to assume proportions so formidable as to endanger the safety of the State . At 2 o'clock on ...
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Page 240 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons,...
Page 268 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself...
Page 240 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 11 - 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 216 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 21 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 351 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 237 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.
Page 344 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Page 212 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.