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Showing posts with label Servile Insurrection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Servile Insurrection. Show all posts
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, January 20, 1861

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If we are in turmoil on the western side of the Atlantic, they are not much better off on this eastern side. The King of Prussia has just sa...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

George Mason Graham: State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, published September 1, 1860

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We are informed that Col. Sherman has succeeded in procuring at Washington a large number of  Minni é  rifle-muskets made especially for the...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Clement C. Clay: Farewell Speech in the United States Senate, January 21, 1861

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 I rise to announce, in behalf of my colleague and myself, that the people of Alabama, assembled in convention at their capital on the 11th ...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, April 7, 1865

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We have word that Sheridan has had a battle with a part of Lee's army, has captured six Rebel generals and several thousand prisoners. H...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Jonathan Worth to Dr. C. W. Woolen, May 17, 1861

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ASHEBORO, May 17th, 1861. I have made special inquiry into the cost question against you and the other securities of Daniel Worth—having f...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress, January 12, 1863

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RICHMOND, January 12 , 1863 . The SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES: At the date of your last adjournm...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

John Brown’s Last Speech, November 2, 1859

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I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the des...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Gerrit Smith, August 27, 1859

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It is, perhaps, too late to bring slavery to an end by peaceable means, — too late to vote it down. For many years I have feared, and publi...