After the War: A Southern Tour. May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866

Εξώφυλλο
Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1866 - 589 σελίδες
 

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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα

Σελίδα 148 - For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage...
Σελίδα 436 - I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Σελίδα 148 - LORD sware unto thy fathers, to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you ? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt ; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand...
Σελίδα 148 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Σελίδα 26 - No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors, to the fourth generation inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person.) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.
Σελίδα 436 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Σελίδα 302 - I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth — filthy, lazy, ignorant, brutal, proud, penniless savages, without one of the nobler attributes which have been found occasionally allied to the vices of savage nature.
Σελίδα 576 - Church, there is underneath apparent conformity a striking absence of spiritual faith — that faith which is "the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for.
Σελίδα 436 - And you do further swear that, to the best of your knowledge and ability, you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter: So help you God.
Σελίδα 438 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...

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