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The storm had by this time passed away, and their path was made easier by the light of the full moon, that shone with the wonderful brightness peculiar to southern latitudes from an unclouded sky.
It was he himself who proposed to withdraw from their present position on the high ground upon the southern bank of the Assanpink before dawn of the next morning, and, by a circuitous march to Princeton, get in the rear of the enemy, attack them at that place, and if successful march on to New Brunswick and take or destroy his stores there.
'Transactions, International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology' 1868, pp. 172-175. Man can long resist conditions which appear extremely unfavourable for his existence. Dr. In the southern extremity of America the Fuegians survive without the protection of clothes, or of any building worthy to be called a hovel.
No one will more readily concede this than officers who remember how the blockade of the Southern coast alone was maintained.
The world has long since done justice to the motives of Cromwell and of Washington, and signs are not wanting that before many years have passed it will do justice to the motives of the Southern people.
Could it be reasonably expected, that the Southern States would concur in a system, which considered their slaves in some degree as men, when burdens were to be imposed, but refused to consider them in the same light, when advantages were to be conferred?
And in defeat or victory, were they not still fighting for us? Were we the less grateful when they met with reverse? Oh, didn't I laud the Southern men with my whole heart! and I think he felt better for it, too! Yes! I like him! We all met at the steps, and water was given to our cavaliers, who certainly enjoyed it. We could not ask them in, as Dr.
To be sure, that dark young man at the Dudley mansion-house looked as if he were his enemy, when he had met him; but certainly there was nothing in their relations to each other, or in his own to Elsie, that would be like to stir such malice in his mind as would lead him to play any of his wild Southern tricks at his, Mr. Bernard's, expense.
You know that a man is never so likely to slip as he is when he's trying to compliment a woman." "No, I don't know that, but I do know that a Southern woman ought to know the difference between flattery and a real compliment." "Why a Southern woman?" she asked. She looked to me as if she were really in earnest and I strove to answer her earnestly.
"At the same time, my boy, whatever your sentiments may be on this subject, you must keep your mouth closed as to them. Owing to the attempts of Northern Abolitionists, who have come down here stirring up the slaves to discontent, it is not advisable, indeed it is absolutely dangerous, to speak against slavery in the Southern States. The institution is here, and we must make the best we can of it.
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