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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], Cold Dip. (search)
magnificent Thebes went up and the gigantic temples on the Upper Nile, and when letters first started from her nurseries of instruction toward Greece, was a Slaveholding Monarchy. Greece, the Greece of the days of Pericles, Themistocles, Demosthenes,--the Greece that created the Parthenon and the Temples of the Acropolis,--was a Slaveholding Democracy, or Republic. Rome, too, in her palmiest days, when Cicero spoke, when Virgil wrote his Epic, when Horace, Ovid, Sillust, Martial, Tacitus, and Seneca lived, was a Slaveholding State. The Augustan era was a Slaveholding era. The highest civilization of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, was in the strongest era of Slavery. Then Civilization and Slavery, whether Slavery be right or wrong, were perfectly compatible. Gibbon shows us, that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire began with the abolition of Slavery. Let the Tribune put this Express tobacco in its pipe and smoke it. Moreover, how would cotton and rice be cultiva