An Appeal to Loyal Religious People in Behalf of Kentucky1865 - 2 pages |
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... results of Slavery , and our State having been exempted by the President's proclamation of freedom leaves with us the curse of Slavery , therefore there still lies for the lovers of humanity a great work to do before Kentucky can be ...
... results of Slavery , and our State having been exempted by the President's proclamation of freedom leaves with us the curse of Slavery , therefore there still lies for the lovers of humanity a great work to do before Kentucky can be ...
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... result of their labors is most flattering to them and constitutes their best reward . The labor system , which had proved so successful in the State of Louis- iana , was adopted in Alabama , and planters , to some extent , showed a ...
... result of their labors is most flattering to them and constitutes their best reward . The labor system , which had proved so successful in the State of Louis- iana , was adopted in Alabama , and planters , to some extent , showed a ...
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... result , I think , would be better if I were to expend our labor on corn now a foot high , even if I were to give a small portion of crop for rent , than to plant now and pay no rent . 2d . We have not the stock to plow the ground . We ...
... result , I think , would be better if I were to expend our labor on corn now a foot high , even if I were to give a small portion of crop for rent , than to plant now and pay no rent . 2d . We have not the stock to plow the ground . We ...
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... results would have been far more encouraging . In the meantime while some have been engaged in agriculture , others have been busy erecting cheap and plain houses at the Home Colony to protect women and helpless children against the ...
... results would have been far more encouraging . In the meantime while some have been engaged in agriculture , others have been busy erecting cheap and plain houses at the Home Colony to protect women and helpless children against the ...
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... result of criminal folly on the part of soldiers , in telling them absurd stories about their condition as freedmen , and the mere announcement of the truth from an authoritative source will bring them to order . A case has come to me ...
... result of criminal folly on the part of soldiers , in telling them absurd stories about their condition as freedmen , and the mere announcement of the truth from an authoritative source will bring them to order . A case has come to me ...
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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.