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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 4 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 2 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session, (search)
umber of slaves in and around Rome exceeded the freemen in the proportion of twelve or fifteen to one. In spite of this distinguished example of Rome, mistress of the world, there are many people ignorant enough to contend, not only that slavery impoverishes, but that, in a military point of view, it enfeebles a State. One of the first acts of Moses, after he had delivered his countrymen from the Egyptian yoke, was to wage war against the Edomites, conquer and reduce them to slavery. Josephus declares that the Jews were greatly benefited by the booty and the slaves they acquired. This was while Moses was governed by Divine council, contemporaneous with the thunders of Mount Sinai, and the delivery of the ten Commandments. This conquest of slaves was ordered with direct reference to the occupation and settlement of the promised land. Having given slaves to the Jews, the Almighty regulated the institution by an excellent code of laws; and when they entered Canaan, authorized th