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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 586 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. 136 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 126 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 124 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 65 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 58 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 58 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 56 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. 54 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 44 0 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
es before answering: Oh, er-r-er-he-he-he-eee I he laughed, I was saying dat de white pop'lation would be maina some remarks on dat ‘ar nigger. Oh! Oh! I answered, old fellow, how can you lie so? Oh no, I isn't massa, said the old jolly-looking slave, as he relapsed into a fit of chuckling, interspersed by ejaculations of very broken English. Are you a slave, old fellow? Oh, yes, massa, said the chuckler. How old are you? Sixty, massa, he replied. I's eighteen when Jefferson war President, and dat war in 1812; I mind ‘bout de war. De rigiments camped on dat hill. I carried de wood for dem. Have you been a slave ever since? Yes, massa, and long afore dat. Would you like to be free? The chuckling laugh was again put in full blast. He seemed to use it for the purpose that young ladies reserve their swoons for — to avoid continuing disagreeable conversation; or, that Senator Douglas uses footpad language on the stump for — to avoid the answering o
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
rds italicized are so marked by the orator. Henry Berry's opinion. The third speech, delivered by Henry Berry, of Jefferson, opens in these words: Mr. Speaker: Coming from a county in which there are 4,000 slaves, being myself a slaveholropean Democrats. From Wisconsin to Georgia, I have frequently found men who did not fear to laugh at the doctrines of Jefferson as rhetorical absurdities; but, in the Seaboard Slave States, I have yet to meet the first Southerner who believes thatts the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them. Kentucky indorsed this doctrine through the pen of Thomas Jefferson: The several States, so the passage reads, who formed the instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unvereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy. As late as 1825, Mr. Jefferson adhered to this doctrine. See his letter to William B. Giles, dated December, 1825. The Southern Quarterly Review
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
own, and went on to Charlottesville; instead, as I intended, of going to Richmond, by the nearest route and in the quickest time. Charlottesville. An accident detained me at Charlottesville two days. It is situated in a charming valley — fertile, wooded, watered well — with cultivated bills rising from the plain, and snow-capped misty mountains in the western background. The village, too, is the prettiest, it is said, and one of the most thriving in Virginia. The College founded by Jefferson is situated there. It rained almost incessantly all the time I was there. The soil is exclusively a red stiff clay, which, when the rain subsided for an hour, rendered walking exceedingly unpleasant to attempt, and impossible when tried. Yesterday I left the village for Richmond — distance, about ninety miles. The fare is four dollars, and the time six hours. We passed miles adjoining miles of worn out land, producing only hedge broom, stunted shrubbery and grass, when, by scientific <