An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 pages |
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THE FREEDMEN OF LOUISIANA . O FINAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF FREE LABOR . DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF , TO MAJOR GENERAL E. R. S. CANBY , COMMANDING : BY THOMAS W. CONWAY , GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEDMEN . PRINTED AT THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES ...
THE FREEDMEN OF LOUISIANA . O FINAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF FREE LABOR . DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF , TO MAJOR GENERAL E. R. S. CANBY , COMMANDING : BY THOMAS W. CONWAY , GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEDMEN . PRINTED AT THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES ...
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... FREEDMEN . с PRINTED AT THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES BOOK AND JOB OFFICE . 1 REPORT . HEADQUARTERS , BUREAU OF REFUGEES , FREEDMEN 1865 . THE FREEDMEN OF LOUISIANA . I ...
... FREEDMEN . с PRINTED AT THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES BOOK AND JOB OFFICE . 1 REPORT . HEADQUARTERS , BUREAU OF REFUGEES , FREEDMEN 1865 . THE FREEDMEN OF LOUISIANA . I ...
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... Freedmen and Abandoned Lands , over which Major General Q. O. Howard presides . THE WORK . The Bureau commenced the year with a stupendous work before it , and without funds . Thousands of destitute freedmen came through our lines , at ...
... Freedmen and Abandoned Lands , over which Major General Q. O. Howard presides . THE WORK . The Bureau commenced the year with a stupendous work before it , and without funds . Thousands of destitute freedmen came through our lines , at ...
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REPORT OF FREEDMEN ON GOVERNMENT HOME COLONIES . ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION AND KIND McHatton . 3000 65 110 105 115 395 ... freedmen . NOTE . The plantations formerly in charge of the Treasury Department are in many cases worked on shares ...
REPORT OF FREEDMEN ON GOVERNMENT HOME COLONIES . ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION AND KIND McHatton . 3000 65 110 105 115 395 ... freedmen . NOTE . The plantations formerly in charge of the Treasury Department are in many cases worked on shares ...
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... freedmen , thrown upon the Bureau for support . The crops are in good condition , and the farms are managed as successfully as if in the hands of private parties . The Sparks Home Colony was worked by its proprietor for some months ...
... freedmen , thrown upon the Bureau for support . The crops are in good condition , and the farms are managed as successfully as if in the hands of private parties . The Sparks Home Colony was worked by its proprietor for some months ...
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Page 6 - 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 10 - 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 6 - 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 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 20 - ... 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 22 - 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 1 - 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 1 - 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.