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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.) 3 1 Browse Search
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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.), Book III (continued) (search)
her than of the negro. Daniel Reaves Goodloe, a North Carolinian, and editor of newspapers in his native state and Washington, published in 1846 a pamphlet in which he concluded that capital invested in slaves is unproductive in that it only serves to appropriate the wages of the labourer. In 1858 he also issued his Southern platform, a digest of the opinions of the most eminent southern Revolutionary characters upon the subject of slavery, which was widely circulated. In Virginia, Dr. Henry Ruffner, President of Washington College, the present Washington and Lee University, advocated in 1847 the gradual emancipation of slaves in the western counties of the state, on the ground that slavery was destructive to the best interests of the white people. After a lengthy demonstration of the evils induced by slave labour, he declared: Delay not, then, we beseech you, to raise a barrier against this Stygian inundation—to stand at the Blue Ridge, and with sovereign energy say to this Blac
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.), Index (search)
574 Ross, Fred A., 340 Ross, Ludwig, 462 Rossetti, 49, 54, 55, 63 Roth, 467, 468 Roughing it, 10, 11, 20 Rough Times in Rough Places, 147 Round — about to Moscow, 165 Round Hill School, 451, 452 Rouquette, Adrien, 595, 596 Rouquette, Dominique, 595 Rowson, Mrs., 541 Roxburgh ballads, the, 510 Roxy, 75-76 Royce, Josiah, 141, 239, 241, 242, 244— 248, 246 n., 249, 251, 257, 256, 417 Rublee, 327 Rudiments of Latin Prosody, 445 Ruffin, Edmund, 341 Ruffner, Henry, 343 Ruins, 446 Ruins of Empires, 52 Ruppius, Otto, 580 Rural studies, with hints for country places, 111 Rush, Benjamin, 179, 402, 447 n. Rush, James, 233 Ruskin, 117, 456, 488, 489, 490, 491 Russell, A., 438 Russell, Bertrand, 248, 249 Russell, Charles M., 161 Russell, Lord, John, 454 Russell, Osborne, 134 Russell's Magazine, 551 n. Russian Christianity versus American Judaism, 122 Russian journey, a, 164 Russian life and Society as seen in 1866–;67,<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Unveiling of Valentine's Recumbent figure of Lee at Lexington, Va., June 28th, 1883. (search)
Parker, of Virginia, Breckinridge, of Kentucky, H. S. Foote, of Mississippi, and William C. Preston, of South Carolina; more than a score of congressmen, twoscore and more of Judges—amongst them Trimble, of the United States Supreme Court; Coalter, Allen, Anderson, and Burks, of the Court of Appeals of Virginia; twelve or more college presidents, and amongst them Moses Hoge and Archibald Alexander, of Hampden-Sidney, James Priestly, of Cumberland College, Tennessee, and G. A. Baxter and Henry Ruffner (who presided here), and Socrates Maupin, of the University of Virginia. These are but a few of those who here garnered the learning that shed so gracious a light in the after-time on them, their country, and their Alma Mater. And could I pause to speak of those who became valiant leaders of men in battle I could name many a noble soldier whose eye greets mine to-day; and, alas! I should recall the form of many a hero who passed from these halls in the flush of youthful manhood, and h