Travellers and Outlaws: Episodes in American HistoryLee and Shepard, 1888 - 335 páginas |
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Página 217 - ... had a wonderful effect; and he ceased from his wickedness, and was attacked immediately with a cutaneous eruption, and blood oozed from the pores of his skin, and after praying and fasting nine days he was healed. And the Spirit appeared to me again, and said, as the Saviour had been baptized, so should we be also...
Página 220 - Travis') on that night, and until we had armed and equipped ourselves, and gathered sufficient force, neither age nor sex was to be spared, (which was invariably adhered to...
Página 277 - Philadelphia Bulletin. ABROAD AGAIN ; or, Fresh Forays in Foreign Fields Uniform with
Página 228 - There he waited two days and two nights, — long enough to satisfy himself that no one would rejoin him, and that the insurrection had hopelessly failed. The determined, desperate spirits who had shared his plans were scattered forever, and longer delay would be destruction for him also. He found a spot which he judged safe, dug a hole under a pile of fence-rails in a field, and lay there for six weeks, only leaving it for a few moments at midnight to obtain water from a neighboring spring. Food...
Página 143 - I think a change already perceptible, since the origin of the present revolution. The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed, in the order of events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather than by their extirpation.
Página 259 - Sir, it was the suspicion eternally attached to the slave himself,— the suspicion that a Nat Turner might be in every family,— that the same bloody deed might be acted over at any time and in any place,— that the materials for it were spread through the land, and were always ready for a like explosion.
Página 278 - The peculiar humor of this writer is well known. The British Isles have never, before been looked at in just the same way, — at least, not by any one who has notified us of the fact. Mr. Bailey's travels possess, accordingly, a value of their own for the reader, no matter how many previous records of journeys in the mother country he may have read.
Página 48 - East, he employed his brigs and schooners in making up the assortment, by sending them to Gottenburg and St. Petersburg, for iron, duck, and hemp ; to France, Spain, and Madeira, for wine and lead ; to the West Indies, for spirits; and to New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond, for flour, provisions, iron, and tobacco...
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Página 244 - Alexander, an English tourist, arriving in New Orleans at the beginning of September, found the whole city in tumult. Handbills had been issued, appealing to the slaves to rise against their masters, saying that all men were born equal, declaring that Hannibal was a black man, and that they also might have great leaders among them.