Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature, Volume 4H. C. Maclean Publications, 1895 |
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Página 107
... Harper's Ferry was listened to with a sympathy and a respect which surprised the Abolition- ists themselves . Some of them took courage from this exhibition , and Thoreau's speech was the first gun fired in Concord in behalf of the ...
... Harper's Ferry was listened to with a sympathy and a respect which surprised the Abolition- ists themselves . Some of them took courage from this exhibition , and Thoreau's speech was the first gun fired in Concord in behalf of the ...
Página 119
... Harper's Ferry , commanded one , A negro called Jim had come and stated that he , with his wife and two children and her slave , would be soon sold , and od for help . First these five liberated , then six cther two white men were ...
... Harper's Ferry , commanded one , A negro called Jim had come and stated that he , with his wife and two children and her slave , would be soon sold , and od for help . First these five liberated , then six cther two white men were ...
Página 120
... Harper's Ferry raid . They know that he fell a willing martyr to the cause of freedom , and how full of consequence that event was to the race he loved . It was the flash that fired the powder , the spark that kindled the blaze soon to ...
... Harper's Ferry raid . They know that he fell a willing martyr to the cause of freedom , and how full of consequence that event was to the race he loved . It was the flash that fired the powder , the spark that kindled the blaze soon to ...
Página 121
... Harper's Ferry , commanded one , and Brown the other . A negro called Jim had come and stated that he , with his wife and two children and another slave , would be soon sold , and he begged for help . First these five slaves were ...
... Harper's Ferry , commanded one , and Brown the other . A negro called Jim had come and stated that he , with his wife and two children and another slave , would be soon sold , and he begged for help . First these five slaves were ...
Página 122
... Harper , one of the band , lives ... Ferry , and figured there as Capt . Aaron D. Stevens . He was a man without fear . He was captured , as will be seen , after being wounded , and was tried and ex- ecuted under Virginia Law SAMUEL HARPER'S ...
... Harper , one of the band , lives ... Ferry , and figured there as Capt . Aaron D. Stevens . He was a man without fear . He was captured , as will be seen , after being wounded , and was tried and ex- ecuted under Virginia Law SAMUEL HARPER'S ...
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Página 102 - ... before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn — a wholly new and rare experience...
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