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...against him; it made him harsh with the poor innocent, which brought him still a peg lower in his wife’s esteem; and (to conclude) it was a bond of un... ...” he cried, bearing down my interruption, “had I been the least petty chieftain in the Highlands, had I been the least king of naked negroes in the Af...

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...gs like that. A Mexican war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs ... ...is conditional upon the good behaviour of other people. “Unless the T rade Unions are more reasonable,” they will say. Or, “Unless the shipping intere... ...s repetition of incoherent discontent with authority, with direction, with union, with the European effort. It wants to do nothing. It just wants effo... ...ce that must follow this struggle. There is no question of their practical union. It is a thing that must be. But it is remarkable that while the Fren... ...y one of the Alpini silenced a machine gun by throwing stones. In the West African campaign we have employed troops armed with bows and arrows, and th... ...a certain freemasonry of thought. It is an impalpable and hardly conscious union of intention. It thinks not in terms of national but human ex- perien... ... plain right thing is a world shipping control, as impartial as the Postal Union. What right and reason and the welfare of coming genera- tions demand...

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... attended a meeting of the men on the bank. He was secretary to the Miners Union for his colliery, and had heard a good deal of silly wrangling that l... ...ecause a lot of ignorant monkeys want a monkey of their own sort to do the Union work, and jabber to them, they want to get rid of you, and you eat yo... ...you. If you cared for your wife and children half what you care about your Union, you’d be a lot better pleased in the end. But you care about nothing... ...lood. It wasn’t frightened. All the rest are craven—Europeans, Asiat- ics, Africans—everyone at his own individual quick craven and cringing: only con... ...ing itself of the moment, and seeking further, deeper interests. These old Africans! And Atlantis! Strange, strange wisdom of the Kabyles! Old, old da... ... them. Such scenes as the last were too horrible and unreal. As for future unions, too soon to think about it. Let there be clean and pure division fi...

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...id impressively to his brother, “the British Empire’s done. It’s U-P . The Union Jack, so to speak, won’t be worth the paper it’s written on, T om.” “... ... city, and men hurrying in the unwonted darkness across City Hall Park and Union Square came upon the dim forms of soldiers and guns, and were challen... ...ion of the Wetterhorn—for that is the only possible word for the act—above Union Square, and not a mile away from the exemplary ruins of City Hall. Th... ...xposing itself to a rifle attack. Overnight there had been a gun placed in Union Square. It had never been mounted, much less fired, and in the dark- ... ...ounded like a football some one has kicked and when they looked out again, Union Square was small and remote and shattered, as though some cosmically ... ...y. But at any time such a village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, de- manding petrol and alcohol or provis...

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... a common sailor, so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadul- terate blood of Ham. A symmetric figure much above t... ...be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of fou...

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...at I never reckoned on getting the prize; and, had the gov- ernment of the Union offered a hundred thousand dol- lars, it would have been none the poo... ...res spontaneously, and not by the closeness of its rivets; and its perfect union of the materials en- ables it to defy the roughest seas. “These two h... ... inquiries, and found that a certain James Hobbs, second lieutenant of the Union of Calcutta, after landing on an island situated 8º 18' S. lat., and ... ...d a girdle of two miles in circumference. The Nautilus then approached the African shore, where the depth of the sea was greater. There, between two w... ...h of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. This valley bifur- cates to the parallel of the Antilles, an... ...ding the thirty miles that sepa- rated the Nautilus from the coasts of the Union. One un- fortunate circumstance thwarted the Canadian’s plans. The we...

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...ry and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head —they... ...nd chil- dren shown by the colliers in striking merely for the sake of the union, and this stirred me to controversy, and distracted me a little from ... ... with that,” I said, clearing my throat. “If the men didn’t strike for the union now, if they let that be broken up, where would they be when the pinc...

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...r getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They have no ... ...n enterprise as if an elderly jobbing brick-layer, working on strict trade-union rules, set out to stop the biggest avalanche that ever came down a mo... ...n advocate as its finest flower. T o go from the posing and chatter of the Union Debating Society to a university laboratory is, in Britain, to renoun... ...agitation for legal reconstruction. In the case of every other great trade union the war has exacted profound and vital concessions. The British worki... ... full of unpaid workers, and so on. The British legal profession and trade union alone has made no sign of any disposition to relax its elaborate rest... ...h, ignorance of all Europe ex- cept Switzerland, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and cant about the Gothic, the Oxford and Cam- brid... ...hirst-tormented Hereros rise 127 H G Wells up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting. This talk of “legitimate expansion” is indeed now... ...g and courage of outlook, between the Euro- pean and the great Asiatic and African communities, is rap- idly diminishing. If the Europeans squabble mu...

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...nd of the squadron which recently rendered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of ... ...nited States and aims at the overthrow of the Federal Constitution and the Union, was clandestinely prepared during the Winter of 1860 and 1861, and a... ...our despatch about seizing seventy rebels to exchange for a like number of Union men was duly received. I certainly do not disapprove the proposition.... ... JUL Y 1, 1862. June 28, 1861. The undersigned, governors of States of the Union, impressed with the belief that the citizens of the States which they... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ...asonable wages for their labor. 3. That as to both property and persons of African descent accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail ... ...the colonization, in some country, of the people, or a portion of them, of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been... ... committees. Applications have been made to me by many free Ameri- cans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization...

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...ed and cried after her in the streets with terrific vehemence. Such guilty unions seldom prosper. This husband and wife had lived together but a month... ...a rage and got rid of it again. At one time he wanted it to consent to the Union of England with Scotland, and quarrelled about that. At another time ... ...ndertook a war with the Dutch; principally because they interfered with an African company, established with the two objects of buying gold dust and s... ... her reign, in the month of May, one thousand seven hundred and seven, the Union between England and Scotland was effected, and the two countries were... ... rather lost ground in this respect since the days of Oliver Cromwell. The Union of Great Britain with Ireland—which had been getting on very ill by i...

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...hat he thought all things else of mean importance in com- parison: and our union is one in which, following the coun- sel of a sage and seer, I must t... ...led concord comes of it. That is our republic each one to his work; all in union! There’s the motto for us! Then you have music, harmony, the highest,... ...his ‘banana-wreath,’ he liked the fel- low for having volunteered for that African coast-service, and the news of his promotion by his admiral to the ... ...an attack on the Tories for their want of a policy and indifference to the union of classes. ‘I would prescribe a course of it, Cecilia; yes,’ he turn... ...d with her, and the manner of this tall graceful girl in submitting to the union of the measure and reserving her individual distinction, had exquisit... ... much as to let her know that if Nevil broke with his uncle, the treaty of union between the two families, which her father submitted to entertain out...

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...rough many waves of depression. Freights might drop out of sight, Seamen’s Unions throw spanners and nuts at certificated masters, or stevedores combi... ...kards for whom a sea-voyage was recommended; there were frowzy little West African boats, full of rats and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but ... ...e—a bloomin’ bodysnatcher. There’s justice, I tell you, in England; and my Union’ll prosecute, too. We don’t stand no tricks with people’s insides ‘er...

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... Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2 Victory, union, faith, identity, time, The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,... .... Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness. 51 The past and pres... ...ypes, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbu... ...bes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d African, large, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal te... ... feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you? Whoever you are! how can I but ... ...bove all towering, With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law; Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all, Thee, ever thee, I ... ...thy gold and silver, The inexhaustible iron in thy mines. All thine O sacred Union! Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines, City and State, Nort... ...ver the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed, The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand, Lea... ... part, castle of lord or laborer’s cot, Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African’s—the Arab’s in his tent, Old Asia’s there with venerable smile, ...

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...criptural pathos in what followed, as if it were some scene of domestic re-union, opening itself from patriarchal ages. The young officer was the elde... ...imate of all violence. Personal security being so main an object of social union, we are obliged to frown upon all modes of violence as hostile to the... ...own upon all modes of violence as hostile to the central principle of that union. We are obliged to rate it, according to the univer- sal results towa... ...nnocent voluptuousness of *‘Creole.’—At that time the infusion of negro or African blood was small. Consequently none of the negro hideous- ness was d... ... complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them bred name... ...ing, taking them in the fullest literality, agree in this general point of union— they are all silent incarnations of miraculous power— miracles, supp...

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...r ago thirteen various and very jealous states worked out the problem of a Union, and became—after an enormous, exhausting wrangle—the United States o... ...to interfere to protect the lives or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to ... ...t it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would not even a... ...n my 30 In the Fourth Year “ignorance” from the burthen of thinking about African prob- lems, I find myself obliged, like most other people, to do so... ... of the next decade. I know this is not a claim to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator ... ...nd the essential thing I would like to point out to these authorities upon African questions is that not one of them even hints at any other formula w... ...even hints at any other formula which covers the broad es- sentials of the African riddle. What are these broad essentials? What are the ends that mus... ... Sharpe, and the other authorities can object to at least an international African “Disarmament Commission” to watch, warn, and protest. At least they... ...delegated certain powers to Washington. That was the ini- tial idea of the union. Only later did the idea of a people of the States as a whole emerge....

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...rds the second point, singularly enough Washington is the only city of the Union that has been in an enemy’s possession since the United States became... ... present population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep th... ...t of the House of Repre- sentatives, and the Supreme Judicial Court of the Union. It may be said that there are two centers in Washington, this being ... ... pillars or wayside letter-boxes, as are to be found in other towns of the Union—no subsidiary offices at which stamps can be bought and letters poste... ...on the very spot chosen by himself for the center temple of an everlasting union, what would he then say as to that boast made on his behalf by his co... ...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who... ...an or woman in whose veins there can have been presumed to be any taint of African blood. In Jamaica they are daily to be found in society. Every Engl... ...willingly join my lot with theirs. I do not wish to have dealings with the African negro, either as a free man or as a slave, if I can avoid them, bel... ... other mode of protestation I may to guard myself. In thus speaking of the African negro, I do not venture to despise the work of God’s hands. That He...

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... for and never have. We are the most diverse country in the world. We have African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans Christians, Jews, Musli... ...tween gays. He announced his beliefs on the issue in the 2004 State of the Union Address: A strong America must also value the institu- tion of marria... ... President Clinton. That statute defines marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine ma... ...ation must de- fend the sanctity of marriage, protect its status as a holy union entered into through the blessings of the Almighty, and stand firm an... ...or we will never be free. Works s s s s Cited Bush, George W. State of the Union Address. 19 January 2004 <http:// s88741803.onlinehome.us/2004SOTU/ 2... ...hment are equally compelling. For one, the death penalty is biased against African Americans. Statistical evi- dence shows that African Americans are ... ...are four times more likely to receive the death penalty than Cau- casians. African Americans comprise only 13 per- cent of the U. S. population, but 4...

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...akfast. Here I cannot but remember the advice of the cook, a simple hearted African. ‘‘Now,’’ says he, ‘‘my lad, you are well cleaned out; you haven’... ...go to hell after all, would be hard indeed!’’ Our cook, a simple hearted old African, who had been through a good deal in his day, and was rather ser... ...ication table and the tables of weights and measures; then the states of the union, with their capitals; the counties of England, with their shire t... ...Seamen’s Friend Society, and of the other smaller societies throughout the Union, have been a true blessing to the seaman; and bid fair, in course ... ...ch any one might have seen could not be right, and which turned out to be an African Baptist meeting house. But my friend had many capital points of ... ...ple were alike, nearly all of the English race, though from all parts of the Union. The latest French bonnets were at the head of the chief pews, and ... ...re the Mast Richard Henry Dana educated men and women from all parts of the Union I met with; where New England, the Carolinas, Virginia, and the ne...

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...that some hours only of travel in this direction 1 Chapter first published in Union Magazine, 1848. 2 The Maine Woods will carry the curious to the ve... ... We inquired the time; none of my companions had a chronometer. At length an African prince rushed by, observing, “Twelve o’clock, gentlemen!” and 9 C...

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... in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road bu... ...ationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from the African states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Sout... ...been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. 39 This pattern of expansion through bui... ...in his weakest position since his early days in the war against the Soviet Union.The Sudanese government had canceled the registra- tion of the main b... ...eo- ple, none of them Americans. Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that “when it becomes apparent that it would b... ...ologies that gave us insight into the closed-off territories of the Soviet Union during the Cold War are of limited use in identifying and tracking in... ...omoted by fellow officers while he paid his bills by selling to the Soviet Union the names of U.S. operatives and agents, a number of whom died as a r... ...expectation of civ- ilized behavior among nations.” 99 In his State of the Union message in January 1995, President Clinton prom- ised “comprehensive ... ...ve seen no per- suasive evidence that al Qaeda funded itself by trading in African conflict dia- monds. 129 There also have been claims that al Qaeda ...