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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 340 340 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 202 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 177 51 Browse Search
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) 142 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 131 1 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. 130 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 128 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 89 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 73 5 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
are larger cities in the Northern States with but one constable, and he engaged occasionally only in performing his official duties! Who pays the expenses of this guard — the salaries of the men, and for the purchase money, the feed and accoutrements of the horses? Chiefly, the non-slaveholding population. Let the Democratic supporters of the constitutional crime of American slavery reflect on this unpalatable fact! In all slaveholding cities — excepting the great seaports, and St. Louis, Louisville and Baltimore, which are practically free — the lawyers form the richest and most influential class. Let the people think of this fact; let them remember too, that lawyers are the leeches of the body politic. Vii. South Carolina. The Southern Commercial Convention secret history of the anti-tribune debate Parson Brownlow's great joke Greeley and the counter-jumpers Sartorial description of the author a sublime moral the Tennessee editor Parson Brownlow's p<
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
nd compelled him to carry his little baggage along with him. He threatened to cut his bowels out if he dared to return. Alone — sick — a member of an outcast race — without money — without family — and without a home in his tottering old age! Where could the wretched invalid go? He applied to the police. They took him to the jail and confined him in that putrid cell! How long, oh Lord! How long? Here my talks with the slaves on my third trip end. From New Orleans I sailed to St. Louis, and from thence to Kansas, where I lived, with brief intervals, for three years, during the civil wars and the troubles which so long distracted that unhappy Territory. About Northern travellers. With two additional extracts from my Letters, I will close this record. Why is it (it has been asked) that Northern travellers so frequently return from the South with proslavery ideas? Their conversion, I wrote, has already become an argument in favor of slavery. A Yankee renegad
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
trade, and had worked near Parkville for five or six weeks past. It appears that he tried to induce a negro girl, the property of Widow Hoy, to go with him to St. Louis, where he proposed that they should spend the winter, and then go together to a Free State. This programme shows how stupid he must have been, or how totally igch it would require the graphic pencil of a Bellew to do justice to — was passing down the main street, amid the laughter and jeers of the people, a steamer from St. Louis stopped at tie wharf, and I ran and boarded her. When I returned, the prisoner had been released. He was put over the river that night. Ii. A journey in Vistress, or to keep her from being sold down South. I do not doubt it. A heroic act of this kind was once publicly performed, many years ago, in the city of St. Louis. It was witnessed by gentlemen still living there, one of whom — now an ardent Emancipationist — narrated the circumstance to me. These scenes occurred, not <