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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 21 13 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 18 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 17 1 Browse Search
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves. 9 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 6 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 5 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. 4 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 4 0 Browse Search
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nkee martyr — the horse-thief and murderer, as we regarded him — a low, snuffling Yankee vagabond as ever we saw — with no more of the hero or the martyr about him than any Yankee pedlar you may pick up in a summer's day. The zeal which all Yankeedom manifested in favor of this ruffianly scoundrel, and the eagerness with which they sought to sanctify his crime — that of willful and deliberate murder — is eminently characteristic of that amiable nation, betraying an entire destitution of what Locke calls the "Moral Sense"--that is, the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. They instated upon it that he was guilty of no crime, inasmuch as he only slew a few slaveholders, under the conviction that he was doing right, and argued to prove that it could not be wrong to slay a slaveholder, addressing their arguments to the Governor of a State in which there were four hundred thousand slaves.--They said, in effect, "Governor Wise, you and your slaveholding constituents are a pa