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Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth,... ...inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night. In the case of our particular cabin I could... ...re dis- cussed, the primal one was that of slavery. Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a c... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...f coloured men—some of them very strong and brilliant—were in the House of Representatives at that time, and one, the Hon. B.K. Bruce, was in the Sen-...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and mos...

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....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ons on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...le and seductive, from the apparently clean cut opposition between its two members, and the remarkable difference between the sentiments to 17 J S Mi... ... calm deliberation, and they resort to manual violence on the floor of the House, or shoot at one another with rifles? How, again, can government, or ... ...if strong, it makes itself despotic, at the cheap price of appeas ing the representatives, or such of them as are capable of giving trouble, by a sha... ...ident and of Congress were binding solely on the governments of New Y ork, Virginia, or Pennsylvania, and could only be carried into effect through or...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...xty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...ss at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my father had been members of the same debating society (where they were generally pitted on o... ...try from what one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, an... ...and knew but few of them. While I was on duty at Springfield the senators, representatives in Congress, ax-gov- ernors and the State legislators were ...