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...ing to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From ... ...sly in nearby India. So our driver didn’t need to cow- tow to the bulls as Indian chauffeurs must do. My earlier impression of Indian drivers was tha... ...rk, but at least a hemisphere! But if China can do it and the upper class Indians can do it, there is hope for us. Let‘s look at India for a minute.... ...d this isn‘t just limited to Bangladesh. China, India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly all of these problems ... ...ook some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary to win and carry out ... ... ―Some Indian states have mandated a maximum of two children for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. A... ...gration for a moment. Not many people would want to come here. Maybe some Africans if they could pay for their transportation. We have more food tha... ...expansion of rights and needs beyond their economic success, the American Congress was debating a $700 billion bailout bill to save the American eco...

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...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...th their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the fork in the left. Indians may eat with their right hands, Chinese with chop sticks. No need f... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ... God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congressional sea... ...ans in North America were generally pantheistic, while the South American Indians were generally panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. ... ...rs as your older population. This might be because more are educated. And African-Americans, who have less education on the average, have twice the n... ...tally opposite way. I already mentioned the vocally Christian former U.S. Congressional leader Tom Delay, whose actions seemed to be somewhat against... ...ssions. ―We have increased the rights of deserving minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics, while concurrently expanding the rights o...

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... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY ... ...ilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayanan The New Indian Express, Saturday, 12 Nov. 2005 K.R.Narayanan was a lauded he... ...stem. For six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain... ...or six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain ration... ...lways a leader of mass organizations, he served as the State President of the Congress party, founded the Self- ... ... Our expert also quoted Periyar who had said that even during the British and Congress rule, the Dalit and Sudra children were denied entry into cer... ...hese faults intact, and yet voicing support for the rights 124 of the South Africans and writing as if one has all concern for the Untouchables an... ...s notice and make them pass orders. If only the indifferent attitude of the politicians is going to be the answer, we will attain human rights by ... ... will understand what is more important by seeing the plans that the present politicians have made in order to prevent our social development. This...

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...b countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs ... ... the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In Janua... ...nd even more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel ... ... regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of its brains, i... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o... ... they can even change their representatives (though the rate of turnover in the US Congress in the last two decades is lower than it was in the las... ...) and, thus, becoming police states. Both the US Patriot Act, recently extended by Congress and Tony Blair's newly acquired powers to exclude and ... ... to control Central Asian energy resources and to extend its influence towards the Indian Ocean. Two Saudi Arabian oil companies were also involved... ... wished to construct roads accessible for tanks to cross through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This might also explain his characteristic opportu...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...n live for 2 weeks in the Veldt from the marrow found in the thigh bone of an African antelope. Not only could they eat what was inside the bones, ... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ... at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt i... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...ing horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American plains Indians. War is usually a manifestation of accumulated power. Regardl... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...n legally impeached from office at any time. The damning proof exists in the Congress statutes of records in his own bank statements. While he was ...

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...stributed by Ingram and by Baker & Taylor, and give the book’s Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006030830. ABOUT AUTOGR... ...even James Bartlett First Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of... ...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...stasy, for certain. I had an ivory penis in my studio in Florence: was it African? Some thought it Babylonian. It does not matter. Men will always f... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r... ... thud along the Po- tomac. Executive Mansion May 7, 1863 North versus South, we have a population of 18 million fighting a population of 5 milli... ...at my cause is a lost cause. They say I will never eradicate slavery. The South says I will never end slavery because it is an honor- able way of lif... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ... American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West African coast, and 893 slaves have been liberated. Captain Gordon has been...

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... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ... they can even change their representatives (though the rate of turnover in the US Congress in the last two decades is lower than it was in the las... ...en connected to "desirable genes" (pleitropy). Sickle cell anemia protects certain African tribes against malaria. This is called "diversifying or ... ...s rooms of the White House. He lied to his family, to his aides, to the nation, to Congress…" DC: "For what purpose do you enumerate them?" AC: "... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has...

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............................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: CONGRESS ..................................................................... ... States no other city has put itself forward for the honor of entertaining Congress. And yet Washington has been a failure. It is commerce that makes ... ...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who... ...an or woman in whose veins there can have been presumed to be any taint of African blood. In Jamaica they are daily to be found in society. Every Engl...

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...hus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to the active list, and not otherwise.?...

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...en Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT... ...he Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be re... .... LINCOLN. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT... ...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ... W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D.C. June 28, 1862. GOVERNOR O. P . MORTON, Indianapolis, Ind: Y our despatch of to-day is just received. I have no rec... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot...

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...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ...subject. The American people, on the first day of January, 1854, found the African slave trade prohibited by a law of Congress. In a majority of the S... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ... original States. The same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ...

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...lks about the League of Nations should bear in mind. These states set up a congress and president in Washington with strictly delegated powers. That c... ...r one hardly knows how, and sitting in a specially built League of Nations Congress House. All schemes are more methodical than reality. We think of s... ...ve the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany ... ...d little strength in hole- and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the tim... ...es to appoint their representatives. I suppose there would be at least one Indian representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- feren... ... representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect of the American Presidenti... ...n my 30 In the Fourth Year “ignorance” from the burthen of thinking about African prob- lems, I find myself obliged, like most other people, to do so... ... of the next decade. I know this is not a claim to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator ... ...he New Statesman. Then a kind of illustrative gesture would be made to the South American republics, although the in- ternal disturbances of the South...

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...nglish Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – P... ...and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the gr... ...heir native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or ... ...ist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T ... ...n may be made. Amendments must be proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several ... ...l Constitution. Chapter Summary Origin of the first Union – Its weakness – Congress appeals to the constituent authority – Interval of two years betwe... ...oys them. Oppression has, at one stroke, deprived the de- scendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of hu- manity. The negro of the Unite... ...and the peculiarity of the race perpetuates the tradition of sla- very. No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; when... ...ible to say what bounds could then be set to tyranny. Some of our European politicians expect to see an aristoc- racy arise in America, and they alrea...

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...the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of the next Congress, an... ...at, before the first meeting of the next Congress, and of every subsequent Congress, the clerk of the next preceding House of Representatives shall ma... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...aty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly r... ...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...sting rebellion means more and tends to do more than the perpetu- ation of African slavery—that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of all working p... ...ancing the Union cause, but on the distinct issue of Union or no Union the politicians have shown their instinctive knowl- edge that there is no diver...

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... at first; it may be of a merely diplomatic pretension; it may be called a Congress, or any old name of that sort, but essentially its business will b... ...th the present United States. The thing has been ably advocated already in South America. Whatever appearances of separate sovereignties are kept up a... ...damen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious people, since it gives them ye... ...r getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They have no ... ...e the traffic across. Beyond that point one is struck by the fact that the south side is considerably higher than the north, that storm water must run... ... the world to go through. Every American knows the district that sends its congress- man to Washington for the good of his district, and the dis- tric... ...hirst-tormented Hereros rise 127 H G Wells up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting. This talk of “legitimate expansion” is indeed now... ...exities arising out of those British dependencies of non- British race—the Indian states, for example, whose interests are sometimes in conflict with ... ...ciple, for example. South Africa again takes a line with regard to British Indian subjects which is highly em- barrassing to Great Britain. There is a...

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...er at this time on this subject. When Judge Trumbull, our other Senator in Congress, re- turned to Illinois in the month of August, he made a speech a... ...o be framed to a vote of the people, then that they were stricken out when Congress did not mean to alter 8 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Fou... ... Judge Douglas has told me that he heard my speeches north and my speeches south; that he had heard me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and rece... ...me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and recently at Jonesboro in the south, and there was a very different cast of sentiment in the speeches mad... ...r time a moment with what he said. Mr. Clay was at one time called upon in Indiana, and in a way that I suppose was very insult- ing, to liberate his ... ...n of it is in these words: “What is the foundation of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general d... ...on of slavery, denied the truth of it. I know that Mr. Calhoun and all the politicians of his school denied the truth of the Declaration. I know that ... ...ction. Let me ask why they made pro- vision that the source of slavery—the African slave-trade— should be cut off at the end of twenty years? Why did ... ... of significance. What is the language in regard to the prohibition of the African slave-trade? It runs in about this way: “The migration or importati...

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...rasting with the darkness of so many youthful lives within! * * * * * * At South Boston, as it is called, in a situation excel lently adapted for the... ...f respect. Some thing of the same spirit pervades all the Institutions at South Boston. There is the House of Industry. In that branch of it, which i... ...ny of the next one begins; which is an unspeak able comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country: that is to say, to ninety nin... ...es with surprise and fear, like the countless repetition of one astonished African face in some strange mirror. Mount up these other stairs with no le... ...gh character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ... and longed for the Forest and the Prairie. I asked him what he thought of Congress? He an swered, with a smile, that it wanted dignity, in an Indian... ...ish them. The number of cadets being about equal to that of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member ...

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...ved, the editor is furthermore indebted to the Librarian of the Library of Congress; to Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co., D. Appleton & Co., Macmillan ... ...of a few barren acres in a dreary neighborhood; his father a typical “poor Southern white,” shiftless and with- out ambition for himself or his childr... ...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...ashington. To the town constable’s he went to read the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Every printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devo... ..., in 1846, he was elected 16 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to Congress. In a clever speech in the House of Represen- tatives he denounced... ...n: V ol One Territories to the ingress of slavery, Douglas had pleased the South, but greatly alarmed the North. He had sought to conciliate Northern ... ...g judgment and his conscientious statement of the truth, but the practical politicians were also right in their predic- tion of the immediate effect. ... ... following, mainly from New York, New England, and the Northwest. Cautious politicians doubted seriously whether Seward, to whom some phrases in his s... ...Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period th...

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... watercourses, with plentiful willows beside the road, vines and fields of Indian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old... ...pid storm of the mountains to the north-west of it and of the Carso to the south-east, that they made no fight in the town itself. As a consequence wh... ...ess planet. Still more desolate was the scene upon the Carso to the right (south) of Goritzia. Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the l... ...tiful church, and then suddenly we are in a village street full of stately Indian soldiers. It betrays no military secret to say that commonly the rar... ...gs like that. A Mexican war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs ... ...y one of the Alpini silenced a machine gun by throwing stones. In the West African campaign we have employed troops armed with bows and arrows, and th... ...” He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face. “Under the politicians?” he said. I took the train of thought N had set going abroad w... ... this open discussion goes on before the doors close upon the secret peace congress the better for mankind. 2 2 2 2 2 Let me sketch out here what I co... ...ness have a higher sanction than the mere give and take of belligerents in congress. Moreover this International Tribunal, if it was indeed to prevent...

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...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...s it possible that these charred and slashed and splintered persons, those Indians hanging from hooks, those walkers in the fiery furnace, have had gl... ...ove the Tapti. He had been very anxious to see something of that aspect of Indian life, and he had snatched at the chance Kepple had given him. But th... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...congested souls, the tricks and slow blundering dis- honesties of Diet and Congress and Parliament are his state- craft and his wisdom…. “I do not car... ...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...matter. They had not had the time. They had just negotiated, like the mere politicians they were, for the Nationalist vote. They seemed to hope that b... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...

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...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit... ...nians were ever cut off before in any one battle; as they usually employed Africans, Spaniards, and Numidians in their wars, so that if they chanced t... ...ies of Greece. And Alexander, when he undertook his expedition against the Indians, and found his Macedonians encumbered, and appear to march heavily ... ...nd put their hopes in him. So the Argives, Eleans, and Arcadians, in their congresses, would contend with the Thebans for superiority in command, yet ... ...ty- rants, and emulating and admiring Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian above all politicians, adhered to the aristocratical principles of government; and ha... ...heir first articles. And some state, in fact, the proposal was made in the congress of the allies, that the Athenians should all be sold as slaves; on... ... to him, though he had enlarged the Roman empire to the Caspian Sea or the Indian Ocean. In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man o...

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...lish—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; an... ... same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bismarck’s. Y.M. How ar... ...s, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousa... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ...and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their... ...overnor rules the State, the mayor rules the city. The first conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia. The Constitution of the United States was est... ...struction; it cannot be wise or well to let the young find out everything: Congress is divided into civilized half civilized and savage. Here are some... ...dge of all men twenty five hundred years before the Christian era. Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ...here was not money for two, he went by himself. He was very fond of Church Congresses and usually managed to go up to London once a year; and once he ... ...who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a tour of South Germany . Philip was left a good deal to himself. Hayward sought his ... ...igno- rant and very humble. By the end of August, when Weeks returned from South Germany, Philip was completely under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward d... ...ty at the vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very prett... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...acalister. “Something is sure to turn up soon. There’ll be a boom in South Africans again one of these days, and then I’ll see what I can do for you.”... ...ut war had broken out with the T ransvaal and noth- ing was doing in South Africans. Macalister told him that Redvers Buller would march into Pretoria...

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...s with some of the shipmasters of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this... ...of the shipmasters of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philoso... ...rs of the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the ... ...and, doubtless, so have many other scientific institutions. It is found in South America; its most hideous spread of legs covers a space nearly as lar... ...nah set before him, preparing it, it might be, with a sympathy of her East Indian part towards him. Well, Doctor Grimshawe easily got at what seemed t... ... party which he had adopted. He had been, for a biennial term, a member of Congress, after winning some distinction in the legisla ture of his native... ...g found political life as much es tranged from it as it is apt to be with politicians,—yet he had early snuffed the musty fragrance of the Doctor’s b...

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... and the boatman?s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, ?nosee- ems,? make travelling in the woods almost impossible; but now their reign was nearly over....

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...AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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...I. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N TH... ... for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, “no see ems,” make travelling in the woods almost imp... ...road. At Passadumkeag we found anything but what the name implies, — earnest politicians, to wit, — white ones, I mean, — on the alert, to know how th... ... to travel this way. Our course here crossed the Penobscot, and followed the southern bank. One of the party, who en tered the house in search of som... ...eared. Having with some difficulty discovered the trail again, we kept up the south side of the West Branch, or main river, passing by some rapids call... ... We inquired the time; none of my companions had a chronometer. At length an African prince rushed by, observing, “Twelve o’clock, gentlemen!” and 9 C... ...len, come to demand the surrender of his fort in the name of the Continental Congress. It is a sort of ranger service. Arnold’s expedition is a daily ...

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...TER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? S...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASSAGE UP THE CO... ...XV — RUMORS OF WAR—A SPOUTER—SLIPPING FOR A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 SOUTH EASTER—A GALE . . . . . . . . 117 CHAPTER XXVI — SAN FRANCISCO—MO... ...akfast. Here I cannot but remember the advice of the cook, a simple hearted African. ‘‘Now,’’ says he, ‘‘my lad, you are well cleaned out; you haven’... ...men in each, boldly putting out to sea, after it had become almost dark. The Indians go out in them after fish, and as the weather is regular in certa... ...go to hell after all, would be hard indeed!’’ Our cook, a simple hearted old African, who had been through a good deal in his day, and was rather ser... ...ood about doing nothing, with their cloaks, little better in texture than an Indian’s blanket, but of rich colors, thrown over their shoulders with a... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio... ...lature itself. They pass through the form of sending representatives to the congress at Mexico, but as it takes several months to go and return, and ... ...s rancho. On board the steamer, found Mr. Edward Stanley, formerly member of Congress from North Carolina, who became my companion for the greater pa...

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...ant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the ...

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...e visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nomin... ...at they are for Texas anyhow. As ever yours, A. LINCOLN. 1845 SELECTION OF CONGRESSIONAL CAN- DIDATES TO Gen. J. J. HARDIN, SPRINGFIELD, Jany. 19, 184... ...ncoln: V ol Two VERSES WRITTEN BY LINCOLN AFTER A VISIT TO HIS OLD HOME IN INDIANA- (A FRAGMENT). [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for C... .... [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for Clay, he crossed into Indiana and revisited his old home. He writes: “That part of the country is... ...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ... of the globe?” This suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race and African continent was made twenty- five years ago. Every s... ...g slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave trade by law. The law which forbids the bringing of slaves fr...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to...

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...Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White House 98 3.7 . . . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA’S INITIAL ASSAULTS 108 4.1 Before... ...3 Unity of Effort in Sharing Information 416 13.4 Unity of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 42... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...s turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and failed to co... ...2 AM Page 14 “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 15 BOSTON NEW YORK NEW YORK CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS Boston Center Otis Air Force Base Langley Air Force Base Nor... ... in Khartoum. 30 Bin Ladin agreed to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road bu... ...ationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from the African states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Sout... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...

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...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ...ons of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of 1774. That body recommended certain measures to their constitue... ...heir efforts to pursuade the people to reject the advice of that patriotic Congress. Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority o... ...rt than of the whole; of one or two States than of the Union. Not a single Indian war has yet been occasioned by aggressions of the present federal go... ... federal govern- ment, feeble as it is; but there are several instances of Indian hostilities having been provoked by the improper conduct of individu... ...the north- ern hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Eu... ...e it might and probably would happen that the foreign nation with whom the southern confederacy might be at war would be the one with whom the norther... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ...by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the o...

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...rrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. ... ...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...f the evil eye. Next to Orientals in envy, as in activity, are some of the Southern Europeans. The Spaniards pursued all their great men with it, embi... ...n early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des potism and Catholicism has, i... ...n importance; to be at once the nation’s Committee of Griev ances and its Congress of Opinions; an arena in which not 74 Considerations on Represent... ...thpieces of their inferiors in knowledge, do not even offer themselves for Congress or the State Legislatures, so certain is it that they would have n... ...hese councils are composed of persons who have pro fessional knowledge of Indian affairs, which the governor general and governors usually lack, and ... ...ssembly of which one third was British American, and an other third South African and Australian. Yet to this it must come if there were any thing li... ...parated from them, than when reduced to be a single member of an American, African, and Australian confederation. Over and above the commerce which sh...

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...te caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very w... ...igrating after his food, camping, homeless, as to this day are many of the Indians and Esquimaux in the Hudson Bay Territory. Then began agriculture, ... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...hods and traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact... ... and cradle and in folk-songs and village gossip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues, Ca- nadian French—but I mean that also En... ...he present American and French Senators, the French Deputies, the American Congressmen, and the En- glish Members of Parliament would hold their posit... ...e, of its art and feeling, of its religion and purpose. When one speaks of Congressmen or Mem- bers of Parliament one thinks, to be plain about it, of... ...- other twenty-six millions were foreigners. Another nine mil- lion are of African negro descent. Fourteen million of the sixty-five million native-bo... ...lectual power from the British Colonel Norths, for ex- ample, or the South African Joels. In my “Future in America” I have taken the former largely at...

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...ished from a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening the... ... Quincey tify our sense of the deep responsibility to India with which our Indian supremacy has invested us. We make no mention of the Christian oracl... ...ted Socinian, which, in a petty diocese that he never visited, and amongst South Welshmen, that are all incorrigible Methodists, mattered little, but ... ...having the antiquity and the incomprehensible omniscience of the Simorg in Southey, transferred this right of mere ne- cessity to the individuals of t... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p... ...hoes have borne worse language. Will you complain of what was tolerated by Africanus, by Paulus Aemilius, by Marius, by Sylla?’ Who could reply to tha... ...an countenance divine on this planet. And most other na- tions, Asiatic or African, have hitherto put up with this in- sult; except, indeed, the Kalmu... ...of Europe by war upon a colossal scale, and by our councils in the general congresses of Christendom. Such a review would amply justify the traveller’... ...ransfer the trust, that he should rally his enegies in- stantly: for a new Congress was even then assembling. There was no delay open to him by the na...

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...ugal peasant, as the ac- commodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute masters of the lives and liberties of ten thousa... ...ut together. It is remarkable, that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign commerce, but seem all to have... ...east in common language. The greater part of our North Ameri- can and West Indian planters are in this situation. They farm, the 50 The Wealth of Nat... ...ow one of Great Britain. The value of the greater part of the lands in the southern counties of Scotland, which are chiefly a sheep country, would hav... ...7 10d. In pursu- ance of the 8th George I. c.21, the bank purchased of the South- sea company, stock to the amount of £4,000,000: and in 1722, in cons... ...persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, p... ...le, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under those five hund... ...cal the standing army of Annibal. The disheartened and frequently defeated African mili- tia joined it, and, at the battle of Zama, composed the great... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba...

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......................480 To a Locomotive in Winter................484 O Magnet South................................485 All Is Truth....................... ... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...nd narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...ypes, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbu... ...bes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d African, large, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal te... ...eech is right. He walks with perfect ease in the capitol, He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Leaves of Grass –Whitm... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is...

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...dic- tate a gambler’s “Yes” or “No.” The glow of fire and gold was on that southern face. Some seven or eight onlookers stood by way of an audience, a... ... rounded by a cloud, seemed to look longingly out of Latour’s pastel at an Indian chibook, while she tried to guess the pur- pose of the spiral curves... ...e of various lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, his fancy fled to the hot tawny south of Italy. He was present at Borgia’s orgies, he roved among the Abruz... ...nion? That is the most vicious jade of all. According to you moralists and politicians, the laws you set up are al- ways to go before those of nature,... ... “Ici l’on peut ecrire soi- meme.” He is acute enough to deceive an entire congress of diplomatists. In a couple of words, he is a moral half-caste, n... ...se de Montbauron. “‘I would sooner take ship for the Brazils, and give the Indians lessons in algebra, though I don’t know a word of it, than tarnish ... ...lilies of the valley, narcissus blooms, and Bengal roses. A mat of plaited African grass, variegated like a carpet, lay beneath their feet in this lux...

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...rating me from every En- glish-speaking, English-thinking person who lives south of the Great Lakes. So long as men are content to work in the 21 H G... ...ype, the dusky Jewess, the tall, fair Scandinavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each... ...es of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives in great abundance. He infers from this that interference... ...schools, is English adequately taught. And these people ex- pect the South African Dutch to take over their neglected tongue! As though the poor parti... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...aracteristically Anglo-Saxon method of appointing its rep- resentatives in Congress. It is not only in political institu- tions that the method may be... ...each State may or may not be to the American heart. But the possibility of Congress delegating the power to appoint additional Senators to certain non...