The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 1

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John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker
Duke University Press, 1902

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Page 321 - Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford.
Page 50 - ... searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 177 - The constitutional obligation of the United States to guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government and to protect the State in the cases stated is explicit and full.
Page 111 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites ; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained ; new provocations ; the real distinctions which nature has made ; and many other circumstances will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Page 177 - We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and that the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard to those States is to again get them into that proper practical relation.
Page 282 - WASHINGTON Adding new Lustre to Humanity Resounded to the remotest Regions of the Earth. Magnanimous in Youth, Glorious through Life, Great in Death. His highest ambition the Happiness of Mankind, His noblest Victory the Conquest of himself, Bequeathing to Posterity the Inheritance of his Fame And building his Monument in the Hearts of his Countrymen, He lived the Ornament of the Eighteenth Century, He died regretted by a mourning World.
Page 320 - VII shall not interfere with the measures which shall be taken in virtue of the present Article. ARTICLE X. Similarly, the provisions of Articles IV, V, VII, and VIII shall not interfere with the measures which His Majesty the Sultan and His Highness the Khedive, in the name of His Imperial Majesty, and within the limits of the firmans granted, might find it necessary to take for securing by their own forces the defence of Egypt and the maintenance of public order.
Page 84 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Page 108 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 32 - If I put on the cap and bells and made myself one of the court-fools of King Demos, it was less to make his majesty laugh than to win a passage to his royal ears for certain serious things which I had deeply at heart.

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