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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, July, 1861. (search)
rom crag to crag, and rushing down nobody knows whither. Like the country, may we not look to find the people unpolished, rugged and uneven, capable of the noblest heroism or the most infernal villainy-their lives full of lights and shadows, elevations and depressions? The mountains, rising one above another, suggest, forcibly enough, the infinite power of the Creator, and when the peaks come in contact with the clouds it requires but little imagination to make one feel that God, as at Sinai, has set His foot upon the earth, and that earth and heaven are really very near each other. July, 21 This morning, at two o'clock, I was rattled up by a sentinel, who had come to camp in hot haste to inform me that he had seen and fired upon a body of twenty-five or more men, probably the advance guard of the enemy. He desired me to send two companies to strengthen the outpost. I preferred, however, to go myself to the scene of the trouble; and, after investigation, concluded that t
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
he Address at N. Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 6, 1844; Phillips's Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact, 3d ed., p. 182; Lib. 30.150. South prescribed, as a condition of their assent to the Constitution, three special provisions to secure the perpetuity of their dominion over their slaves. The first was the immunity for twenty years of pursuing the African slave trade; the second was the stipulation to surrender fugitive slaves—an engagement positively prohibited by the laws of God delivered from Sinai; and thirdly, the exaction, fatal to the principles of popular representation, of a representation for slaves—for articles of merchandise, under the name of persons ... The delegates from South Carolina and Georgia distinctly avowed that, without this guarantee of protection to their property in slaves, they would not yield their assent to the Constitution; and the freemen of the North, reduced to the alternative of departing from the vital principles of their liberty, or of forfeiting th
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Poems Subjective and Reminiscent (search)
imed a place in Truth's domains, He asked the title-deeds. He saw the old-time's groves and shrines In the long distance fair and dim; And heard, like sound of far-off pines, The century-mellowed hymn! He dared not mock the Dervish whirl, The Brahmin's rite, the Lama's spell; God knew the heart; Devotion's pearl Might sanctify the shell. While others trod the altar stairs He faltered like the publican; And, while they praised as saints, his prayers Were those of sinful man. For, awed by Sinai's Mount of Law, The trembling faith alone sufficed, That, through its cloud and flame, he saw The sweet, sad face of Christ! And listening, with his forehead bowed, Heard the Divine compassion fill The pauses of the trump and cloud With whispers small and still. The words he spake, the thoughts he penned, Are mortal as his hand and brain, But, if they served the Master's end, He has not lived in vain! “ Heaven make thee better than thy name, Child of my friends!—For thee I crave What rich
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Blind Tom. (search)
urselves of this plea the nation must be pursed of its sins. Among those enumerated were extravagance and love of ease; want of that missionary spirit, which has made us in all works of Christian benevolence, at home and abroad, so far inferior to our enemies; profanity and desecration of the Sabbath; vainglorious pride of ancestry and chivalry; and a covetousness so greedy and defiant in its recent manifestations that it ranks with that idolatry which worshiped a golden calf at the foot of Sinai, at the very moment when God was revealing his awful presence. These sins have demoralized our army and our people; the church has yielded to their pernicious influence, and slumbers in sinful apathy amid the growth of inequity. If the divine Being were to blot us from existence as a nation, it were no more than we deserve. In conclusion, the congregation was urged to that humiliation and repentance to which the text invites, and confidently assured that thus the nation might be exalted,