Sketches in North America: With Some Account of Congress and of the Slavery QuestionLongman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1861 - 320 Seiten |
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... institutions are not working satisfactorily . We have a tendency in the same direction ; and it is very important for us to gather any indications we can of where that direction leads . There are spots on the sun ; and there is so much ...
... institutions are not working satisfactorily . We have a tendency in the same direction ; and it is very important for us to gather any indications we can of where that direction leads . There are spots on the sun ; and there is so much ...
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... institutions for training up their youth to the ministry . Were the different sects to unite and have one college in the capital , a noble institution might be maintained there , the only place where there could be a prospect of any ...
... institutions for training up their youth to the ministry . Were the different sects to unite and have one college in the capital , a noble institution might be maintained there , the only place where there could be a prospect of any ...
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... institutions are deve- loping at least two sections , nearly as distinct as British and French , or English and Irish- the North and the South . While all are more spare in figure than their cousins in the old country , the Southerners ...
... institutions are deve- loping at least two sections , nearly as distinct as British and French , or English and Irish- the North and the South . While all are more spare in figure than their cousins in the old country , the Southerners ...
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... institutions . Dispersed everywhere through the United States , another countenance is to be seen , re- sembling neither the Englishman , the South- erner , nor the New Englander . In many Americans , one finds a peculiar and well ...
... institutions . Dispersed everywhere through the United States , another countenance is to be seen , re- sembling neither the Englishman , the South- erner , nor the New Englander . In many Americans , one finds a peculiar and well ...
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... institutions per- mit , will probably be an improvement on the original stock . Climate must also have some effect in the transformation going on . Though we do not as yet know much as to the action of air , sun , and soil , we can ...
... institutions per- mit , will probably be an improvement on the original stock . Climate must also have some effect in the transformation going on . Though we do not as yet know much as to the action of air , sun , and soil , we can ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 106 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Seite 211 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Seite 145 - No member shall speak more than once to the same question without leave of the House, unless he be the mover, proposer, or introducer of the matter pending, in which case he shall be permitted to speak in reply, but not until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Seite 145 - No member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House, or in committee: but a member reporting the measure under consideration from a committee may open and close the debate...
Seite 175 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Seite 146 - Whilst the Speaker is putting any question, or addressing the House, none shall walk out of, or across the House ; nor in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse ; nor, whilst a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the Chair.
Seite 103 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Seite 179 - They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts, that of taking too narrow views, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opposed, and as if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing or upholding it.
Seite 31 - ... such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of renewing his application, or of altering his specification to embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which is new.