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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 3 1 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 2 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
at once and altogether. His speech is as a kindling cloud, not as radiant points of light. This absence of all reflective consciousness, and of all logical analysis of ideas, is the great peculiarity of American speech. Every complex idea is Jarvis, in N. Y. Hist. expressed in a group. Synthesis governs every form; Coll. it pervades all the dialects of the Iroquois and the Al- Pickering, Notes to Eliot. gonquin, and equally stamps the character of the lan- Duponcean, Mem. 95. guage of tny one could do it for himself, whether the sacrifice consisted in oblations or acts of self-denial. But the Indian had a consciousness of man's superiority to the powers of nature, and sorcerers sprung up in every part of the wilderness. They Jarvis, in N. Y. Hist. Coll. III. 217, 252. were prophets whose prayers would be heard. They are no other, said the Virginian Whitaker, but such as our English witches: and, as their agency was most active in healing disease, they are now usually call