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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
o Freedom ! No more bondage; no more right of one human being in another. Art thou not a man and a brother? take that axe and cut me three cords a day, and at the end of the week call up and reap the rewards of your labor. Only every day you devote to freedom, or doing nothing, is deducted — a word of three syllables, the meaning of which is explained at the end of the week, when Cuffee begins to understand that the Genius of Universal Emancipation has but one boon to bestow upon mankind--"Root, pig, or die." Under the Southern master, two cords of wood a day would be the work of a very smart hand indeed, and Easter and Christmas holidays are the universal perquisites of the race. Christmas has always come in their latitudes to rich and poor, to white and black alike, and if any have suffered during that time — honored festival it has been the master, whose servants insist upon their periodical junketings, no matter who suffers.--But Christmas holds no high place on the Yankee