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Page 156 - And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 345 - ... the volume. The special editors of the Individual works will supply introductions, setting forth briefly the author's career and opportunities, when known, the status of the work in the literature of American history, and Its value as a source, and indicating previous editions; and they will furnish such annotations, scholarly but simple, as will enable the Intelligent reader to understand and to estimate rightly the statements of the text.
Page 263 - And whereas, I have also seen a most infamous publication in the Cape Fear Mercury, importing to be resolves of a set of people styling themselves a committee for the county of Mecklenburg, most traitorously declaring the entire dissolution of the laws, government, and Constitution of this country, and setting up a system of rule and regulation repugnant to the laws, and subversive of his majesty's government,
Page 271 - ... be put in the front rank. God only knows what may happen to you individually, but for your cause there can be but one result. It must be lost. Your whole population is only about eight millions, while the North has twenty millions. Of your eight millions, three millions are slaves who may become an element of danger. You have no army, no navy, no treasury, and practically none of the manufactures and machine shops necessary for the support of armies, and for war on a large scale. You are but...
Page 48 - I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on wrong.
Page 194 - Carolina and employ them in destroying the enemy's stores and perplexing their affairs in the state. Please to communicate and concert with him your future operations until we have a better opportunity to have more free intercourse. Great activity is necessary to keep the spirits of the people from sinking, as well as to alarm the enemy respecting the safety of their posts. We formed a junction at this place last night, but our force is so much inferior to the enemy's that we dare not hazard a general...
Page 345 - At its annual meeting in December. 1902, the American Historical Association approved and adopted the plan of the present series, and the undersigned was chosen as its general editor. The purpose of the series was to provide individual readers of history, and the libraries of schools and colleges, with a comprehensive and well-rounded collection of those classical narratives on which the early history of the United States is founded...
Page 272 - Confederacies have only held together against foreign enemies, and in times of peace have soon disintegrated. It is surely not necessary to contrast what would have been our prospects as citizens of such States with our condition now as citizens of the strongest, richest, and — strange for us to say who once called ourselves "conquered" and our cause "lost" — the freest nation on earth.
Page 192 - I wish to have your opinion upon the practicability of crossing the Santee, with a party of three or four hundred horse, and whether they would be much exposed by being in the rear of the enemy. Also, whether the party could not make good their retreat, if it should be necessary and join our people towards Ninety Six. If the thing is practicable, can your people be engaged to perform this service? It may be a matter of the highest importance connected with other movements...