The Rejected Stone: Or, Insurrection Vs. Resurrection in AmericaWalker, Wise,, 1861 - Всего страниц: 132 |
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Стр. 43 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Стр. 112 - We shall march prospering, — not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us, — not from his lyre; Deeds will be done, — while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire...
Стр. 55 - ... Good mornings.") The Republican Administration had answered Republican Haiti in the very words of Henry A. Wise, when, a nation freed by her own right arm, she vainly appealed to America for recognition, as America had a few years before, and under the same circumstances, appealed to other nations. The intrenchments about Washington may be very complete, but mark this: Washington is not safe until a black minister can be received there ! Now, whilst we are speculating as to the possibility of...
Стр. 39 - ... halts, hesitates, mixes, then, holding its nose, swallows. This overweening tenderness is the meat on which this our Caesar has fed that he hath grown so great. Mr. Breckenridge truly called it a bill for the abolition of Slavery. Now wherever our flag cuts its way, liberty to every slave must go with it. This is theory, however ; actual emancipation comes later. " He found thereon nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Стр. 122 - On the 10th of October, 1811, the Congress of Chili decreed that every child born after that day should be free.
Стр. 48 - ... of the human pocket are stirred. The privateers are at large! They have taken away my coffee, and I know not where they have laid it. They have taken my India goods with swords and staves. For my first-class ship they have cast lots! Was such depravity ever known before? So long as it was...
Стр. 20 - but that the people may come to believe that these stones and pictures are the gods themselves." Just that came to pass. So the provisions of our Constitution, which our fathers themselves acknowledged as necessarily partial, and in many regards temporizing, are confused by the majority of our people with absolute laws, and worshipped accordingly. But, outside of mythologies...
Стр. 38 - It is no use smoothing matters to the patient who feels the hectic spot burning on the cheek. No doubt this first Republican Administration would have been more tender with Slavery than others; so do we humor and indulge to the top of their bent those whose graves are near. But in the day when the Nation decided for the principle that Slavery had a right to be treated only as local property, and then with no, more favor than other property, it touched the seat of life. Slave property does not rest...
Стр. 118 - ... for Liberty and Justice. No war, however bloody or interminable, can be so horrible as that peace offered us by traitors in our midst, — a peace whose quiet would be that of a nation's grave, whose outside repose would be but the cover of corruption and loathsome vermin. Against such a peace God has forever set his angel with the sword of flame. Between him and all wrong there can be no peace: the white flag of peace is only a flag of truce. The truce may last a month, a year, ten years; but...