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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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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
on doctrines of the Northern enthusiasts, as you are pleased to term the doctrines of your own Jefferson, furnish, in your opinion, a sufficient reason for poising the Ancient Dominion on its soverei life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Declaration of Independence, from the pen of Thomas Jefferson. In this general and unqualified declaration, on the 4th of July, 1776, all the people t say the souls, of their victims is daily and hourly abused. Will the evidence of your own Jefferson, on this point, be admissible The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exn her innocence and beauty, and childhood, and hoary age! The hour of emancipation, said Thomas Jefferson, is advancing in the march of time. It will come. If not brought on by the generous energy robbery and wrong? All wars are horrible, wicked, inexcusable, and truly and solemnly has Jefferson himself said that, in a contest of this kind, between the slave and the master, the Almighty h
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Democracy and slavery. (search)
d slavery. [1843.] the great leader of American Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, was an ultra-abolitionist in theory, while from youth to age ers, and these are the only weapons of an old man. Such was Thomas Jefferson, the great founder of American Democracy, the advocate of the or themselves, we are constrained to believe the great body of Thomas Jefferson's slave-holding admirers had no adequate conception. They weremplifiers of the idea of democracy, as it existed in the mind of Jefferson, were not wanting. In the debate on the memorials presented to tmers, took a very different view of the matter. The doctrines of Jefferson were received as their political gospel. It was in vain that fe beyond a question, in the democratic element. With the words of Jefferson on their lips, young, earnest, and enthusiastic men called the atf its foundation principles. It was a revival of the language of Jefferson and Page and Randolph, an echo of the voice of him who penned the