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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 6 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves. 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 4 2 Browse Search
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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Laughter in New Hampshire. (search)
plead the contagion of example. It is impossible to write of this Medical Momus in a serious way. Perhaps if we were to take a few lessons of him in the Art of Laughing — will he be good enough to send us a card of his terms for twelve lessons?--we, too, might see Slavery in a ludicrous light. Who knows but the Doctor might found a new Pro-Slavery sect? Some say that the institution is patriarchal, others affirm it to be ethnological. Others, still, find authority for it in the curse of Canaan. Now, might not Bachelder take the ground that, whereas, there is a time to laugh, so God gave us Slavery to laugh at — Slavery with its shames and crimes its cruelties and inconsistencies. When Sambo writhes under the lash, what can be droller? When his wife is cowhided, is there not entertainment in every scream? It is such a joke to part mother and child! It is such a perfection of comedy — this exhibition of human will, utterly depraved, and of human weakness, utterly down-trodden! <
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), What shall we do with them? (search)
ric telegraph, that, without the lash, all negroes are lazy. Some venerable Sambo, in confidence, imparts to a gaping letter-writer the fact, that he wishes to go back to his master, and we have leading columns occupied by delighted editors, who conclude from this wonderful premise that all other Sambos wish to go back to their masters also. Hard upon this follows another conclusion, namely, that upon being immediately restored to the bosom of Abraham, this curious descendant of accursed Canaan, unless properly flogged, will experience an inexplicable revulsion of feelings will murder his master and fire his master's house. It appears to us astonishing, that the Civil War, which is not only such a sombre but such a serious business, and which demands of the best mind of the nation such careful and practical judgment, should have led to no wiser reflection. We have had all this before. For a quarter of a century we have been compelled to listen to the same bold assertion and to t
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
er womb; Yet, what if I sold them? she never complained, From her cradle-bed down to her tomb. Ah! never again will a slaveholder own A darkey so pious as she who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! IV. They say that she bore me a child whom I sold-- I doubt, but I do not deny; Yet e'en if I bartered its body for gold, 'Tis God who's to blame and not I, For He in His wrath said that Saxons should own The offspring of Canaan — like her who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies. V. Haste! bury her under the meadow's green lea, My faithful old black woman Sue; I'll pray to the Lord for another like she, As dutiful, fruitful, and true! Yet I fear me that never again shall I own A darkey so “likely” as her who has gone! Gone! gone! gone Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! X. Georgia. Se<
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture IX: the necessity for the institution of domestic slavery exemplified by facts. (search)
of a nation is admitted to be the best index of the habits and morals of the people. This remark, however, cannot always be taken without modification. We shall greatly underrate the civilization of the Israelites, who first settled the land of Canaan, if we judge them alone by their civil code. Smiting and cursing father and mother, brutal assaults upon pregnant married women, digging pits to destroy neighbors' cattle, (Ex. XXI.,) seduction, adultery, dealing with familiar spirits and witchmprovement much beyond any thing they could have attained in their original heathen state. The Africans when first brought into this country were not a whit better in morals, and were greatly inferior in intellect to the ancient inhabitants of Canaan. And, although it be admitted that they have improved, the facts given clearly prove that they are still incompetent to self-government. They are, therefore, no more entitled to the right of political sovereignty than the Canaanites were. But
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 2 (search)
s long widely believed, the charge rests upon no evidence, is squarely denied, and has been silently abandoned. For once, at least, avarice and cruelty have been unable to gain a sacerdotal sanction, and compelled to fall back in good order upon Canaan and Ham. Even the voluptuous Leo X. declared that not the Christian religion only, but nature herself cries out against the state of Slavery. And Paul III., in two separate briefs, imprecated a curse on the Europeans who would enslave Indianery, acting upon their theologic convictions, led them early and readily to the belief that these savages, and by logical inference all savages, were the children of the devil, to be subjugated, if not extirpated, as the Philistine inhabitants of Canaan had been by the Israelites under Joshua. Indian slavery, sometimes forbidden by law, but usually tolerated, if not entirely approved, by public opinion, was among the early usages of New England; and from this to negro slavery — the slavery of a
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 26 (search)
which our system rests? It is the first government ever instituted upon principles in strict conformity with nature, and the ordination of Providence, in furnishing the materials of human society. Many governments have been founded upon the principle of enslaving certain classes; but the classes thus enslaved were of the same race, and their enslavement in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. The negro, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material — the granite-then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the-material fitted by nature for it; and by experience we know that it is the best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so. It is, indeed, in conformity with the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 197 (search)
s horse and attempted to go to the field of battle on the evening preceding it, but was compelled to return to town, much to his regret, after marching two or three miles with the column. On the march out many of those who now lie in their graves were joyously singing and feeling as gay as larks. Among the songs I heard were the Iowas' favorite, which relates the doings of Jackson and Price at Booneville, how Lyon hived Camp Jackson, the chorus concluding: Bound for the happy land of Canaan! the Kansas melody, So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still, and many of a religious character. We took 400 horses and 69 prisoners. One of the latter was brought in from a squad of five rebels by your correspondent, who at that time was nearly hoarse from rallying the troops, regardless of any thing like personal danger. On the return to town, many were the anxious inquiries made after friends and comrades, and lucky was the man who made successful attempt
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Secession official reports. (search)
s horse and attempted to go to the field of battle on the evening preceding it, but was compelled to return to town, much to his regret, after marching two or three miles with the column. On the march out many of those who now lie in their graves were joyously singing and feeling as gay as larks. Among the songs I heard were the Iowas' favorite, which relates the doings of Jackson and Price at Booneville, how Lyon hived Camp Jackson, the chorus concluding: Bound for the happy land of Canaan! the Kansas melody, So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still, and many of a religious character. We took 400 horses and 69 prisoners. One of the latter was brought in from a squad of five rebels by your correspondent, who at that time was nearly hoarse from rallying the troops, regardless of any thing like personal danger. On the return to town, many were the anxious inquiries made after friends and comrades, and lucky was the man who made successful attempt
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 180 (search)
heaven, 'Tis not of earth and time alone That nations thus are riven; Behold! the armies of the skies,-- The embattled legions, see then rise! Arrayed, and officered, and led, By angel chieftains from the dead! The solemn vision deepening, lo! What mighty numbers swell, Rising from their dark pits of woe, The serried ranks of hell! Great God! it is the conflict dire Which raged of old on plains of fire! Jesus, the mighty victor, knew, Both worlds were open to his view. And when again, on Canaan's land, The rebel armies stood, Behold! the angel in command-- How soldierly his word: “I'm captain of the hosts!” he said, With sword drawn in his hand, and led Unseen by Joshua before, To victory all the tribes of war. And so, when Syria's guilty king, 'Gainst Israel led the foe, And omens dire began to sprint From out that threatening woe; “Fear not,” said Israel's prophet bold, “Our numbers cannot now be told.” And lo! the mount of vision came, With hosts and chariots of flame
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
50. the golden wedge of Achan. （Joshua VII.) When Joshua, warrior of the Lord, O'er Canaan held his powerful sway, Lo! once the mighty victor's sword Arrested in its conquering way. Humbled, in ruinous defeat, The men of Israel fled apace; Chased by the foe, in full retreat, They own the visible disgrace. And Joshua rent his clothes, and said Alas! O Lord, and must it be To perish thus without thine aid, And fall by thy great enemy? The Lord replied: ‘Tis sin, ‘tis sin! There is, O Israel, in thy midst, A secret and accursed thing That on thee all thy troubles bring'st. They searched around, confessed, and owned, And lo! from Achan's guilty tent, 'Mong other spoils, a wedge of gold, Of vast and ominous portent! The curse of God was on the gold-- 'Twas stolen, coveted, retained, Against command to touch or hold, Lest Israel's camp should be profaned. Thus saith the Lord: Ye cannot stand Before your enemies in fight, Until, by my divine command, This thing is out of mind and sight.<
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