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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... land or on the sea , can it be a flag of ' stripes ' to any of God's children , however poor or however black . " — p . 746 . " No more its flaming emblems wave To bar from hope the trembling slave ; No more its radiant glories shine To ...
... land or on the sea , can it be a flag of ' stripes ' to any of God's children , however poor or however black . " — p . 746 . " No more its flaming emblems wave To bar from hope the trembling slave ; No more its radiant glories shine To ...
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... land by the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States : we , the undersigned citizens and members of the Afro - American League of Middle Tennessee , have determined , on behalf of the Afro ...
... land by the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States : we , the undersigned citizens and members of the Afro - American League of Middle Tennessee , have determined , on behalf of the Afro ...
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... land of Washington a slave would be as impossible as a king . In common with many others I did no more than my duty in that great historic battle . But I do not attempt to conceal from any one that I am proud of my anti - slavery record ...
... land of Washington a slave would be as impossible as a king . In common with many others I did no more than my duty in that great historic battle . But I do not attempt to conceal from any one that I am proud of my anti - slavery record ...
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... land of Washington , and the admin- istration of our national government as it was administered by our fathers , so that in every State and in every Territory in all our broad Union , there shall eventually come an end to oppression and ...
... land of Washington , and the admin- istration of our national government as it was administered by our fathers , so that in every State and in every Territory in all our broad Union , there shall eventually come an end to oppression and ...
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... land like ours , privileged to do right if they will , yet permit them- selves to be coerced by unprincipled leaders , and sacrifice their convictions of right and the better impulses of their hearts , to the despotism and tyranny of ...
... land like ours , privileged to do right if they will , yet permit them- selves to be coerced by unprincipled leaders , and sacrifice their convictions of right and the better impulses of their hearts , to the despotism and tyranny of ...
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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...