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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...uglas as a Democrat, Lincoln as a Whig. They had met first in Vandalia, in 1834, when Lincoln was in the Legislature and Douglas in the lobby; and aga... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h... ...ublic utility of internal improvements. That the poor- est and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads... ...and join mine, this being the case it was agreed that they should exchange places and answer to each other’s names—as it was ex- pected we all would b... ...o the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering... ..., and a circuit judge was appointed to hold the courts in that circuit. In 1834 the circuit-court system was again established throughout the State, c...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ere said to be unsound; the stand- ing rigging was much worn; and, in some places, even the bulwarks were quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight... ...fres, and the quality of the coffee to be drunk in Muscat; and about these places, and a hundred others, he had more anecdotes than I can tell of. The... ...ven upon his chest, were the seal of his initiation. All over Hivarhoo are established these orders of tattooers. The way in which the renegado’s came... ...r bolted down to the deck. After this, we considered ourselves permanently established in our new quarters. “The deuce take their old iron!” exclaimed... ...s had tended to debase, rather than exalt their condition.” About the year 1834, Daniel Wheeler, an honest-hearted Quaker, prompted by motives of the ... ... pair must have scampered off to the inte- rior since it is now so thickly populated by their wild prog- eny. The herds are the private property of Qu...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvani... ...is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume; but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein described ac... ...rism—if slavery can be honored with such a distinction—vault into the high places of the most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and G... ... The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely against the wishes and ... ...county town of that county, there is a small district of coun- try, thinly populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn... ...phatically such, being but a boy seven or eight years old. He was too well established in his profession to per- mit questions as to his native skill,... ...N SLAVERY—ANGUISH BEYOND DESCRIPTION. THE MORNING OF THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1834, with its chill- ing wind and pinching frost, quite in harmony with th... ...s they occurred. On one of the coldest days of the whole month of January, 1834, I was ordered, at day break, to get a load of wood, from a forest abo...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... been preserved in an unbroken series, begin- ning from a country visit in 1834, after a slight attack of scarlet fever, written in the round-hand of ... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...when I came up by the Hog’s Back, the Frying Pan, Hell Gate, and all these places? Why, when, not long ago, I visited Shakespeare’s birth place, and ... ...nothing new to say to you: but I do so, notwithstanding. To say nothing of places nearer home, I had the honour of attending at Manchester, shortly be... ...iginal conception, and it took till 1826 to get these sticks abolished. In 1834 it was found that there was a considerable accumulation of them; and t... ...ness than we are for our public folly and failure, I take to be as clearly established as the sun, moon, and stars. T o set this right, and to clear t... ...ted, and half recognized profession, than when there is a public opin ion established in it, by the union of all classes of its mem bers for the com... ...e often hear of our Charles Dickens 138 common country that it is an over populated one, that it is an over pauperized one, that it is an over coloni...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...m.” This led him to give up the military career after two years’ trial. In 1834 he resigned his commission and went to Moscow, where he spent six year... ...de the revolutionaries masters of the town. They held it for five days and established a revolutionary govern- ment. Bakunin was the soul of the defen... ...unciating this doctrine,[“Marx, as a thinker, is on the right road. He has established as a principle that all the evolutions, political, reli- gious,... ...se du T ravail, and again with the Syndicats in the same industry in other places. “It was the purpose of the new organization to secure twice over th... ...n- crease without limit. If the whole surface of the world were as densely populated as London is now, it would, no doubt, require almost the whole la... ...ket-gardeners in Great Britain, in the neighborhood of Paris, and in other places, he says:— They have created a totally new agriculture. They smile w... ...European immigrants also compete, but they are not excluded. In a sparsely populated country, indus- trious cheap labor could, with a little care, be ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ... out bright scholars from his school, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who... ...of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railr... ... been driven out long before I left. Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. He understood the n... ...n standing in it from the fire from the fort, was selected and the battery established on the crest nearest the enemy. The 4th infantry, then consisti... ...ove elements of weakness rather than strength. After the invading army had established their camps out of range of the fire from the city, batteries w... ...y of Northern Virginia, Com- manded by General Robert E. Lee, August 31st, 1834. First Army Corps: Lieut.-Gen. R. H. Anderson, Command- ing. Maj.-Ge...