An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 pages |
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... report . 5. Agents will at once be sentjinto the interior for the purpose of explair : ing to the planters and the freedmen the new relations that now exist between them , and to facilitate such measures as may be 24.
... report . 5. Agents will at once be sentjinto the interior for the purpose of explair : ing to the planters and the freedmen the new relations that now exist between them , and to facilitate such measures as may be 24.
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... exists in name to a limited extent , but not in interest . Under the stroke of rebellion , the roof - tree which sheltered it has been shivered to the roots , What remains of it to us is , and must continue to be , not only effete but ...
... exists in name to a limited extent , but not in interest . Under the stroke of rebellion , the roof - tree which sheltered it has been shivered to the roots , What remains of it to us is , and must continue to be , not only effete but ...
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... exist- ed , and beyond the reach of the General Government in the exercise of its ordinary and peaceful functions , was readily conceded by every leading statesman of the North , and emphatically declared by Con- gressional resolutions ...
... exist- ed , and beyond the reach of the General Government in the exercise of its ordinary and peaceful functions , was readily conceded by every leading statesman of the North , and emphatically declared by Con- gressional resolutions ...
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... exists and engaged in avocations requiring the employment of labor , scarcely any alternative but to adopt it . Voluntary emancipation too , by individu- al action , has been attended with difficulties which in many cases were almost ...
... exists and engaged in avocations requiring the employment of labor , scarcely any alternative but to adopt it . Voluntary emancipation too , by individu- al action , has been attended with difficulties which in many cases were almost ...
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... exists . at all . Those who still cling to their masters do so because it is their inclination or their interests thus to remain , and because they receive in some form or other what both parties are willing to recognize as a fit ...
... exists . at all . Those who still cling to their masters do so because it is their inclination or their interests thus to remain , and because they receive in some form or other what both parties are willing to recognize as a fit ...
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amendment American armies Ashmun Institute Attorney at Law authority bill Bureau cause Christian Church citizens civil command Committee condition Congress Constitution Court crime declared disfranchisement District duty E. R. S. CANBY election emancipation enforce equal ernment established fourteenth amendment freedmen Freedmen's Bureau freedom friends gentleman give Government hands honor House human hundred institution JEFFERSON CITY justice Kentucky labor land legislation Legislature liberty Lincoln University Louisiana loyal ment military millions moral nation never North O. O. HOWARD officers oppression Orleans party persons plantations planters political population Port Hudson prejudice President principle privileges proposed protection punishment question rebel rebellion Republic Republican right of suffrage right to vote schools secure Senator serfdom slave slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern spirit thousand tion to-day Union United Washington white race whole words
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Page 2 - 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. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Page 6 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 2 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 2 - Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts.
Page 11 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 16 - ... meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 20 - States to leave any state, district, or place where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties; each of such persons shall be punished...
Page 21 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 7 - Section 1. Neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.