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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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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. 6 0 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), A banner with a strange Device (search)
he fastidious a particularly felicitous one. There is an old, a very old story of a snake and a lady, and of a short but important conversation between them respecting the edibility of a certain apply, in the course of which the slimy creature observed: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. We have all read of what happened after the fatal bite. We all understand what that little pippin has cost us. Adam seceded, under a strong pressure, from the garden, and none of his descendants have been so fortunate as to return to its enchanting scenes. The snake has not, it appears, in spite of all his bruises, amended his old habit of oily lying. He whispers still to the ambitious and the discontented and the restless: Bite and be brave! Bite and be presidents, generals, dukes or kings! Bite and be happy! Bite and be as gods! Under the combined influence of ambition and whiskey, the Confederat
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Concerning Shirts. (search)
and equally, every thing unfavorable becomes wrong. Before the omnipotent need indicated, all must give way. There is a necessity that knows no law, human or divine. A starving man may steal bread — a freezing man may steal a coat-and man in general, that he may not starve or freeze, may steal other men. But there is something worse involved in this proposition, viz., a regenerated and disenthralled world returning to its original sin for the sake of a shirt! It is as if our progenitors, Adam and Eve, had suddenly discerned the shame of nakedness while in a condition of original righteousness, and so desperately swallowed the apple as the only way of getting themselves an outfit. We can imagine a world without light, or a world without heat, but a world without cotton shirts is a cosmographical impossibility. We may make good resolutions, reform abuses, do unto others as the golden. rule directs, provided our shirts are not taken from us thereby; but when it comes to a matter o
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., Lecture III: objections considered. (search)
politically equal. The history of all human governments, throughout all time, shows this. To be hewers of wood and drawers of water, in unequal and subordinate positions, to the few, has been the lot of the great mass of mankind from the days of Adam. But, says the socialist, (to whom the doctrine is far more creditable,) this latter is precisely the state of things we deprecate, and affirm that such was never the intention of Deity, but that it is his will that there should be no such inequarst of Genesis, that God created man in his own image: in the image of God created he him : male and female created he them. The term man is, of course, to be understood in its generic sense, and all that is affirmed is, that God directly created Adam and Eve, and all their posterity seminally in them; and from whom, therefore, they have proceeded, as to both soul and body, by generation, and not by a separate act of creation by Jehovah. Now of these two created beings, one was placed in direc
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., Lecture V: the doctrines of rights applied to government. (search)
hould always have the sanction of the civil, government. But still they are entirely distinct, and should not be confounded, either in theory or in practice The one is secular, and the other is Divine. Now, we say that civil government — for of that we are called more particularly to speak--is a necessity of man's condition. It dates back as early as the creation of man. God himself established it in the law he gave to govern the first relation that existed on earth — the relation between Adam and his helpmeet. After the fall, a necessity arose which gave it a new and more important bearing. We soon see it ramifying itself through all society, and dealing with all the relations of life. Its necessity and authority, as a great means of controlling the lower nature of man, is among the permanent beliefs of mankind. Neither legislators nor philosophers originated these beliefs. They are among the intuitions of man. The common judgment of mankind is not more assured that man exi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 79 (search)
arving condition, having travelled one hundred and ten miles, over a rough country, depending for subsistence on the rebellious inhabitants on the way. The men presented a unique and rough appearance. They carried every variety of arms — some flint locks and fowling pieces — several of which were captured from the secesh. These men were induced to come out of the wilderness for the purpose of joining Col. Boyd's regiment at St. Louis, and were under the direction of Capt. Martindale and Lieut. Adam. Capt. Martindale stayed behind at Coppidge's, and, laboring under a misunderstanding in regard to his statements, fifty-four of them joined Col. Phelps' regiment. When Martindale came up he protested, and claimed his men. The subject seemed to be rather a perplexing one to settle satisfactorily to all parties concerned. The party brought in Mick Yates, one of McBride's lieutenants, a prisoner. They also caught Dave Lenox, but the latter managed to effect his escape. The Home Guard
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 247 (search)
range from two hundred and seventy-five to five hundred tons, are all old whalers, heavily loaded with large blocks of granite, and cost the Government from two thousand five hundred dollars to five thousand dollars each. Some of them were once famous ships; the Archer, for instance, the Kensington, the Rebecca Simms, and the Robin Hood, once owned by Girard. The Tenedos is one of the oldest, if I may trust the mate of the Cahawba, who confidentially informed me that her keel was laid when Adam was an oakum-boy; and if this be correct, one or two must date still further back to the period of mastodon and saurian. With this fleet go the Cahawba, Philadelphia, and Ericsson, to help them along and assist at the sinking. The Mohican, Capt. Godon; Ottawa, Capt. Stevens, and Pocahontas, Capt. Balch, are convoy to the whole, and if Mr. Commodore Tatnall should be too curious about our operations, their eleven-inch shells will give him an intelligible hint to keep at a respectful distan
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
of dancing, and they did dance gracefully and well. Every Sunday, regularly, we had a baile, or dance, and sometimes interspersed through the week. I remember very well, soon after our arrival, that we were all invited to witness a play called Adam and Eve. Eve was personated by a pretty young girl known as Dolores Gomez, who, however, was dressed very unlike Eve, for she was covered with a petticoat and spangles. Adam was personated by her brother----, the same who has since become somewhAdam was personated by her brother----, the same who has since become somewhat famous as the person on whom is founded the McGarrahan claim. God Almighty was personated, and heaven's occupants seemed very human. Yet the play was pretty, interesting, and elicited universal applause. All the month of February we were by day preparing for our long stay in the country, and at night making the most of the balls and parties of the most primitive kind, picking up a smattering of Spanish, and extending our acquaintance with the people and the costumbres del pais. I can well
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 291 (search)
rs begotten, Hats off to great King Cotton! White niggers, mudsills, Northern scum, Base hirelings, hear me, and be dumb: What makes this country great and free? 'Tis me, I tell you — only me! Beware, then, of my might, Nor dare dispute my right, Or else you'll find, some day There'll be the devil to pay! Hats off! hats off! Ye slaves, of curs begotten, Hats off to great King Cotton! Dare you dispraise my royal parts, And prate of Freedom, Commerce, Arts? What are they to my pedigree? Why, Adam was an F. F. V.! My arms, (a whip, ye fools, Above a bloodhound, gules!) Declare my house and birth-- The king of kings on earth! Hats off! hats off! Ye slaves, of curs begotten, Hats off to great King Cotton! Paupers, who can resist me? None! My wife's a pew in Washington; My youngest son — he looks like me-- Will be in Congress soon, (S. C.） His brother, Colonel Fuss, Trained up by old U. S., Tore down your dirty flag-- A General, now, with Bragg! Hats off! hats off! Ye slaves, of curs <
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 148 (search)
49. Rams. by Francis de Haes Janvier. Who, indeed, would have thought that it ever could chance That dogmatical England and complaisant France, Who have always known every thing under the sun; Who have always thought first of whatever we've done; Who have scarce deigned our Eagle the slightest salam-- Should fall flat to adore an American Ram? There have always been Rams! Father Adam, we know, Found some Rams in his garden a long time ago: In the raising of Rams Abel took much delight; And a Ram was concerned in the very first fight-- And the first Ram afloat, we may further remark, Was the Ram which old Noah took into the Ark! Then, it seems, there were Rams which were tied up in stalls, Driven out to do battle by butting down walls-- Alexander, Marcellus, and Sylla, we find, Had a great many Rams of this desperate kind, And when Titus encamped 'mid Jerusalem's palms, It is said that the Hebrews saw nothing but Rams! After these there came Rams not inclining to fights-- Rams rese
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 75 (search)
38. our money. Our treasury is furnished with rags, So thick even Jeff cannot thin 'em. Jeff's torn up his old money bags, Having nothing like cash to put in 'em. Our farmers are smashed up by dozens, But this is all nothing they say; For bankrupts, since Adam, are cousins, But 'tis all in a family way. Our debts not a shilling take from us, As statesmen the matter explain; Bob owes it to Tom, and then Thomas Just owes it to Bob back again. Since all thus have taken to owing, There's nobody left that can pay; And that is the way we keep going, All just in a family way. Our congressmen vote away millions To put in the huge Southern budget, And if it were billions or trillions, The generous rogues would not grudge it. 'Tis naught but a family hop, And Jeff began dancing they say-- Hands round! Why the deuce should we stop? 'Tis all in a family way. Our rich cotton-planters all tumble-- The poor ones have nothing to chew, And if they themselves do not grumble, Their stomachs undoubted
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