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...thusiasm for the cause of France. Her cause was our cause and the cause of civilization; and the tragedy is that it took us so long to find it out. I ... ...e Enormous Room the accomplishment of a task so important in the saving of civilization from the clutches of Prussian tyranny was in some degree inhib... ...to a sudden stop, and started for the ground—then checked my flight in mid-air and landed on the seat, com- pletely astonished. T-d’s revolver, which ... ...ard and smiling encouragingly. The moustache was making little ouis in the air with his pen. And Noyon had given up all hope of making me out a crimin... ...w regarded with com- plete friendliness; the new moon was unclosing sticky wings in dusk, a far noise from near things. I sang a song the “dirty Frenc... ...ir fill on a little washing-shed, on a corner of what seemed to be another wing of the building, and on a bleak lifeless abject landscape of scrubby w... ... the planton’s back was turned (which it was exactly half the time, as his patrol stretched at right angles to the wing of the building whose third st... ...smoke just as much as you like”—I pulled out all I had, one full paquet of Maryland, and a half dozen loose ones, and depos- ited them carefully in th...

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...case may be regarded as a very fair specimen of the treatment of slaves in Maryland, in which State it is conceded that they are better fed and less c... ... Chesapeake Bay—viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living ... ...if whips, chains, thumb-screws, paddles, blood-hounds, overseers, drivers, patrols, were not all indispensable to keep the slaves down, and to give pr... ...very as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that ... ...ave, so he wrote Nar- rative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. During the Civil War he assisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55t... ...he falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air:— Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virgi... ...e gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom’s swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O ... ...n —at every ferry a guard—on every bridge a sen- tinel—and in every wood a patrol. We were hemmed in upon every side. Here were the difficulties, real...

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...of which the walls and ceiling and floor were made of raw pine boards. The air was heavy from the steam heat. At a desk in one corner a typewriter cli... ... said the recruiting sergeant. Andrews drew a deep breath of the sparkling air outside. He stood irresolutely a moment on the wooden steps of the buil... ...lag was seen, and as the troops were pic- tured advancing, bayonetting the civilians in wide Dutch pants, the old women with starched caps, the soldie... ...ade a little attack to straighten out our trenches a bit just before I got winged. Our barrage cut off a bit of Fritzie’s trench an’ we ran right ahea... ...mblin’ all over, and some of ‘em paralysed like … . There was a man in the wing opposite where we slept who kept laugh-in’. Bill Rees was on the car w... ...than the Russians!” “It is curious! … O but you must have some feeling of civilization. I have always heard that Americans were free and independent.... ...hrill broken voice was singing in his ear: “There’s a girl in the heart of Maryland With a heart that belongs to me-e.” John Andrews opened his eyes.... ...The voice was still shrieking in his ears: “There’s a girl in the heart of Maryland With a heart that belongs to me-e.” But another voice could be he... .... There was no sound in the courtyard, only very far away the clatter of a patrol of cavalry over cobblestones. The sky had become overcast and the ro...

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...ht often be tempted to gather honey in the more blooming fields and milder air of their luxurious and more delicate neighbors. They who well consider ... ...is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experi- * Ibid. ... ...TON To the People of the State of New York: It is sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducements could the States have, if disunite... ...occa- sions, discovered a warm zeal for the independence of Ver- mont; and Maryland, till alarmed by the appearance of a con- nection between Canada a... ...repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. T o be more safe, they at length become willing... ... navigation, of monopolizing the profits of our trade, and of clipping the wings by which we might soar to a dangerous greatness. Did not prudence for... ...s to the adventurous stratagems of avarice. In France, there is an army of patrols (as they are called) constantly employed to secure their fiscal reg... ...f the dealers in contraband trade. Mr. Neckar computes the number of these patrols at upwards of twenty thousand. This shows the immense difficulty in... ...pshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Geor- gia, South Carolina, and Maryland are a majority of the whole number of the States, but they do not ...