The Old Free State: A Contribution to the History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia, Volume 2

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William Byrd Press, Incorporated, 1927
 

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Página 462 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Página 117 - Was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of...
Página 99 - There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride ; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart.
Página 97 - Peace is not an end in itself, but only a means to a higher and nobler national life.
Página 375 - Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the delegates of this State to the Congress of the United States...
Página 136 - Gander now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Página 99 - There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of an alliance with excellence which is departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those that come after it.
Página 136 - The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be...
Página 33 - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eightyseventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
Página 462 - ... prompting our negroes to rise in arms among us, those very negroes, whom by an inhuman use of his negative he had refused us permission to exclude by law...

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