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The next year was signalized by “ Dunmore ' s war , " which temporarily checked
the settlements . In the summer of 1774 , several other parties of surveyors and
VYU hunters entered Kentucky , and James Harrod erected a OUTLINE NT 21 ...
The next year was signalized by “ Dunmore ' s war , " which temporarily checked
the settlements . In the summer of 1774 , several other parties of surveyors and
VYU hunters entered Kentucky , and James Harrod erected a OUTLINE NT 21 ...
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Kansas became for a time a favorite country for emigrants ; and at last a bloody
arena between the free soil and proslavery parties for mastery . The
overwhelming preponderance of the former , resulted in its success , and Kansas
was ...
Kansas became for a time a favorite country for emigrants ; and at last a bloody
arena between the free soil and proslavery parties for mastery . The
overwhelming preponderance of the former , resulted in its success , and Kansas
was ...
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The fact that both parties claim to be the government can not alter the case , for
both can not be entitled to it . ... and the president must necessarily decide which
is the government , and which party is unlawfully arrayed against it , in order to ...
The fact that both parties claim to be the government can not alter the case , for
both can not be entitled to it . ... and the president must necessarily decide which
is the government , and which party is unlawfully arrayed against it , in order to ...
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The European travelers in our party were as much enraptured by it as were those
of us who have never visited the mountains , lakes and glens of Scotia or
Switzerland . For several miles , we ran along the steep mountain side , clinging ,
as it ...
The European travelers in our party were as much enraptured by it as were those
of us who have never visited the mountains , lakes and glens of Scotia or
Switzerland . For several miles , we ran along the steep mountain side , clinging ,
as it ...
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He was shot by a small scouting party while reconnoitering , and at the moment
he and his escort had turned to flee , the latter galloping off leaving their
commander wounded and dying by the road side . " The party ran up to the
wounded man ...
He was shot by a small scouting party while reconnoitering , and at the moment
he and his escort had turned to flee , the latter galloping off leaving their
commander wounded and dying by the road side . " The party ran up to the
wounded man ...
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Page 349 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 349 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 349 - Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 349 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 223 - Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind, And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire.
Page 181 - ... our left and for a very considerable distance in front, the ground being covered with old fallen timber, probably occasioned by a tornado, which rendered it impracticable for the cavalry to act with effect, and afforded the enemy the most favorable 'covert for their mode of warfare.
Page 163 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 223 - And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust 'the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, "I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down to save the day!
Page 222 - ... SHERIDAN'S RIDE UP from the south, at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar; And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled...
Page 349 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...
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| Title | THE LOYAL WEST IN THE Times of the Rebellion; ALSO, BEFORE AND SINCE: BRING AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND PANORAMA OF THE WESTERN STATES, PACIFIC STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNION |
| Author | JOHN W. BARBER |
| Published | 1865 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
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