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... never been equalled since . The creek ( Big Creek ) was not only big in name but big in fact . Practically all of the improvements made on the bottom lands were swept away , together with the ungathered and ungarnered crops . This ...
... never been equalled since . The creek ( Big Creek ) was not only big in name but big in fact . Practically all of the improvements made on the bottom lands were swept away , together with the ungathered and ungarnered crops . This ...
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... never questioned the right or the wrong of slavery until the incident of which I am about to speak , occurred . I saw a family sold in Troy when I was a boy , pro- bably ten or twelve years of age . It consisted of husband , wife , and ...
... never questioned the right or the wrong of slavery until the incident of which I am about to speak , occurred . I saw a family sold in Troy when I was a boy , pro- bably ten or twelve years of age . It consisted of husband , wife , and ...
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... never heard any sweeter music than that drawn from those old fiddles . I can still hear ( or imagine I can ) old Ming as he would play , sing , and call the figures , " Ladies in the center , and all hands round ! " " All four forward ...
... never heard any sweeter music than that drawn from those old fiddles . I can still hear ( or imagine I can ) old Ming as he would play , sing , and call the figures , " Ladies in the center , and all hands round ! " " All four forward ...
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... never better exemplified than in that which I am about to relate . Christopher Carter was a neighbor of our family and owned a negro man by the name of John . John had a common - law wife by the name of Paulina , who belonged to my ...
... never better exemplified than in that which I am about to relate . Christopher Carter was a neighbor of our family and owned a negro man by the name of John . John had a common - law wife by the name of Paulina , who belonged to my ...
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... never forget the joy that was overflowing in the cabin when John embraced his wife and children . Here was a husband so devoted to wife and children that he pre- ferred thein with slavery to freedom without . Monu- ments 42 ...
... never forget the joy that was overflowing in the cabin when John embraced his wife and children . Here was a husband so devoted to wife and children that he pre- ferred thein with slavery to freedom without . Monu- ments 42 ...
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Page 38 - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Page 319 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — .left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way out of the water : and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Page 233 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 233 - ... they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 233 - ... the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than...
Page 72 - His justice can not sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of a general emancipation grew more and more dim, he, in utter hopelessness of the action of the State, did all that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. Good and true men had, from the days of...