The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumen1Houlston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... Southern or seceding states . He ratified their constitution ; he rules in their senate - house , and vetoes or approves every measure in- troduced to their legislative bodies . If it was not slavery , what then ? Was it tariffs ? This ...
... Southern or seceding states . He ratified their constitution ; he rules in their senate - house , and vetoes or approves every measure in- troduced to their legislative bodies . If it was not slavery , what then ? Was it tariffs ? This ...
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... Southern influence in Congress . In 1852 , Kansas was contended for with the bowie - knife and revolver . Kansas is far beyond the line prescribed by the Missouri compromise , which the Southerners attempted to set aside by saying that ...
... Southern influence in Congress . In 1852 , Kansas was contended for with the bowie - knife and revolver . Kansas is far beyond the line prescribed by the Missouri compromise , which the Southerners attempted to set aside by saying that ...
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... Southern states are little Jefferson Davises and Stephenses . The latter raised their banner , and all Secessia flocked to it . And if the South is represented by its public men , let us examine the stuff they are made of . There is the ...
... Southern states are little Jefferson Davises and Stephenses . The latter raised their banner , and all Secessia flocked to it . And if the South is represented by its public men , let us examine the stuff they are made of . There is the ...
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... Southern reasons for secession ; examine how far they are valid ; and , in conclusion , show that the North did not at first hold slavery to be the cause of the present struggle . Now that they have entered on the conflict , the first ...
... Southern reasons for secession ; examine how far they are valid ; and , in conclusion , show that the North did not at first hold slavery to be the cause of the present struggle . Now that they have entered on the conflict , the first ...
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... Southern produce , as well as on European goods brought back in return for that produce , from all which the South reaped little bene- fit . Such is a brief summary of the Southern cause of complaint . It will be necessary to ...
... Southern produce , as well as on European goods brought back in return for that produce , from all which the South reaped little bene- fit . Such is a brief summary of the Southern cause of complaint . It will be necessary to ...
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Página 215 - How sweet his music! on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Página 56 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 343 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Página 348 - Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Página 16 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 223 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill...
Página 217 - It is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before. The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.
Página 221 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 14 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 344 - Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.