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Excerpt from Beyond the Breakers: A Story of the Present Day After a time he rose and approached the bar. A glass of grog, landlord, he said: I want it stiff. A hell of a wet night I've had of it! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to di...

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Excerpt from The Future of the North-West: In Connection With the Scheme of Reconstruction Without New England Just North enough in the scheme to afford protection and support to slavery, and not North enough to exert over it the sli htest in¿uence or control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from The Debatable Land Between This World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations A narrative of the first twenty-seven years of the Author's life, its adventures, errors, experiences, together with reminiscences of noted personages whom he met fortyor fifty yws smce, etc., etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repro...

Excerpt from Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World: With Narrative IllustrationsAccepting this issue, I am content to put myself on the country. I demand a fair trial before a jury who have not prejudged the cause. I ask for my witnesses a patient hearing, well assured that the final verdict, be it as it may, will be in accordance with reason and justice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from Hints on Public Architecture: Containing, Among Other Illustrations, Views and Plans of the Smithsonian Institution, Together With an Appendix Relative to Building Materials Of the illustrations which enrich his work, he may be allowed to say, that he regards them as creditable to American art. A portion of these are from original designs, but where examples of ancient Architecture, not found on our Continent, are given, these, f...

Excerpt from The Conditions of Reconstruction: In a Letter From Robert Dale Owen to the Secretary of StateT he vacant seals once more filled That is desirable, no doubt - under certain conditions, and of all the preliminaries of peace, none are so important as these. The men who shall fill those vacant seats will hold in their hands the balance of legislative power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from A Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank Roads Laying Out, Passion for straightness great error. Valiant effort of courage and science. Rule as to circuit that maybe profitably made to avoid a hill. Case in point. Increase by divergence small. Divergence from air-line perpendicular as well as horizontal. Northern and southern slopes. Trestle-bridges replacing embankments. How a little forethought may...

Excerpt from The Policy of Emancipation: In Three Letters, to the Secretary of War, the President of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury The three following letters were originally published, the first and last in the "New York Evening Post, " and that to the President in the "New York Daily Tribune." They obtained, through the periodical press In all parts of the country, a wide circulation. Discussing, as they do, the grea...

Excerpt from An Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark Some particulars regarding it, may, there fore, prove interesting, as exhibiting the results produced on the young mind, by combinations, many of them new, and almost all modified by the general principles on which the system is founded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...

Excerpt from The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation: And the Future of the African Race in the United States It is little more than three years since the first insurgent gun was fired against Fort Sumter: three years, as we reckon time, a generation, if we calculate by the stirring events and far-reaching upheavals that have been crowded into the eventful months. Things move fast in days like these. War changes the legal relations o...

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Excerpt from Tracts of Republican Government and National Education: Addressed to the Inhabitants of the United States of America But if we cannot do all, let us at least do what we can. If we cannot find representatives who will support every measure which their electors desire to carry, let us take those who will support the essentials. And, above all, let us not quarrel about the non-essentials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publis...

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