Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... camp . But a cool , sagacious conservatism , a corrective , unfanatical habit of looking before and after , qual- ified his radicalism and held it down to consti- tutional methods . He was content to let slavery alone so long as it ...
... camp . But a cool , sagacious conservatism , a corrective , unfanatical habit of looking before and after , qual- ified his radicalism and held it down to consti- tutional methods . He was content to let slavery alone so long as it ...
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... camp at Tiguex , a province of the Rio Grande valley , near the mouth of the Puerco , to which he retired after a bootless exploration of Cibola , and began a new quest . In thirty - seven days he reached the Arkansas . Here provisions ...
... camp at Tiguex , a province of the Rio Grande valley , near the mouth of the Puerco , to which he retired after a bootless exploration of Cibola , and began a new quest . In thirty - seven days he reached the Arkansas . Here provisions ...
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... camps of the Pacific coast , thoughtless , passionate , whiskey - guzzling , guf- fawing , unconventional men " Who meeting Cæsar's self , would slap his back , Call him ' Old horse ' and challenge to a drink . " The border experienced ...
... camps of the Pacific coast , thoughtless , passionate , whiskey - guzzling , guf- fawing , unconventional men " Who meeting Cæsar's self , would slap his back , Call him ' Old horse ' and challenge to a drink . " The border experienced ...
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... camp out in the open sun , and do their own cooking without a shade tree to protect them ; for there were no boarding - houses in the neigh- borhood excepting two unfinished shanties . " The gentry came prepared for roughing it , as ...
... camp out in the open sun , and do their own cooking without a shade tree to protect them ; for there were no boarding - houses in the neigh- borhood excepting two unfinished shanties . " The gentry came prepared for roughing it , as ...
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... camp , found the militia , excited by whiskey and ignorant of free - state strength , clamoring for per- mission to attack the town . He spared no efforts to discourage their frenzy . In this movement he was heartily and effectively ...
... camp , found the militia , excited by whiskey and ignorant of free - state strength , clamoring for per- mission to attack the town . He spared no efforts to discourage their frenzy . In this movement he was heartily and effectively ...
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Page 222 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and the right of> the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 138 - Tis time New hopes should animate the world, new light Should dawn from new revealings to a race Weighed down so long, forgotten so long...
Page 154 - ... about six o'clock next morning, when we prepared to attack them at once, on foot, leaving Frederick and one of Captain Shore's men to guard the horses. As I was much older than Captain Shore, the principal direction of the fight devolved on me. We got to within about a mile of their camp before being discovered by their scouts, and then moved at a brisk pace, Captain Shore and men forming our left, and my company the right. When within about sixty rods of the enemy. Captain Shore's men halted...
Page 6 - A few weeks afterward the committee of thirteen took those two bills and put a wafer between them, and reported them back to the Senate as one bill, with some slight amendments. One of these amendments was, that the Territorial Legislatures should not legislate upon the subject of African slavery. I objected to that provision...