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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 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) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 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. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
ver and discourse after the highly original style of Everett, Adams, and all after dinner orators of the two countries, about the land of Alfred, Shakespeare, Milton, & &c., being our own, and proceed to annex the whole literature and laws of Great Britain to Yankeedondledom but John Bull has an excellent memory, and whilst he politely cries hear, inwardly wonders what these fine fellows thought of the land of Alfred, Shakespeare. Milton, &c., when, having abandoned it to make money in Americaacturing districts; and, whatever Englishman may think of slavery in the abstract, when their wives and children are crying for bread, they will have no sympathy to waste on in Ireland it is not the time, therefore, anti-slavery orations in Great Britain. We advise Beecher to stay at home, and to continue his pastoral labors among his Brook flock. He will realize a good deal more shearing those interesting than in got to England, whose he and his cause are thoroughly understood and the whi
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia (search)
ng them as the standard of bloody and implacable foes. So we are fain to talk of ours as "Stars and Bars." How ridiculous we all feel this to be! Shall we perpetuate this nonsense — this mere make shift? Its unfitness for a war flag is manifest and acknowledged. For what, then, is it fit? In the nature of the case, it can never excite the enthusiasm or devotion of the people. Even victory has not endeared it to them. Our forefathers, wiser than we, when they commenced to fight Great Britain did not adopt some modification of the British flag. They did not try to fight under and against the same thing at the same time. All the glorious achievements of our arms have failed to endear this flag to us. And why? There is a philosophy in it. It is because of its inseparable connection with the despotism against which we are struggling a death struggle. It has a taint about it which cannot be removed. It smells of tyranny — of the old body of death. It wants the virgin freshn