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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and candles. I felt myself the focal... ... all my schooling did not amount to one year. I was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building ti... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the slave states. During this year, the slave states had 348,847 mulattoes, all of h... ...kbirders will find slave trade dangerous and unprosper- ous, with both the United States and England patrolling the seas. If I accomplish nothing mor... ...utive LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 557 Government, including the military and naval authority, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons..... ...rdon as we attain peace, peace for our democracy. I will at once lift the naval blockade. I will urge Congress to appropriate $400,000,000 to assist...

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