Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley, of OhioPublishing House of the A. M. E. Church, 1894 - 849 pages |
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... Court . It is indeed a glorious triumph , and one well worthy of our congratulations . But let us remember that this triumph , although achieved by our union and energy , and the power of our principles , was not achieved alone for our ...
... Court . It is indeed a glorious triumph , and one well worthy of our congratulations . But let us remember that this triumph , although achieved by our union and energy , and the power of our principles , was not achieved alone for our ...
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... Court and the slave democracy have done , by say- ing , " that all men were originally born free , and by pirates were first stolen and sold into slavery , and it is agreed that all who first steal men are pirates , and punishable by ...
... Court and the slave democracy have done , by say- ing , " that all men were originally born free , and by pirates were first stolen and sold into slavery , and it is agreed that all who first steal men are pirates , and punishable by ...
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James Mitchell Ashley Benjamin William Arnett. court of last resort , the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws , has decided that white men have no rights that Chinamen are bound to respect , ' so that your being WHITE is only an ...
James Mitchell Ashley Benjamin William Arnett. court of last resort , the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws , has decided that white men have no rights that Chinamen are bound to respect , ' so that your being WHITE is only an ...
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... Court is to be regarded as law . Their obedience and subjugation are secured by enactments and usages the most barbarous and tyrannical ever known to man . A reign of terror secures the obedience and co - opera- tion of the poor whites ...
... Court is to be regarded as law . Their obedience and subjugation are secured by enactments and usages the most barbarous and tyrannical ever known to man . A reign of terror secures the obedience and co - opera- tion of the poor whites ...
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... court with the powers granted to it , and predicted with singular foresight the dangers to which the rights of citizens and States would be exposed if it was established - have been more than realized . It would have been well for the ...
... court with the powers granted to it , and predicted with singular foresight the dangers to which the rights of citizens and States would be exposed if it was established - have been more than realized . It would have been well for the ...
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DUPLICATE COPY OF THE SOUVENIR James Mitchell 1824-1896 Ashley,Benjamin William Bp Arnett, 1838-1906 No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 259 - ... we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
Page 242 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 261 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword : His truth is marching on.
Page 739 - 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...
Page 128 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 217 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 242 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 283 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the Presidential election...
Page 758 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...