| | 281 | Author: | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Add | | | Title: | The Blockade Runners  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed
into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer
called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at
the speed of six miles an hour. Since that time more than
a million of steamers or packet-boats have plied this Scotch
river, and the inhabitants of Glasgow must be as familiar
as any people with the wonders of steam navigation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 282 | Author: | Villard, Oswald Garrison | Add | | | Title: | The Negro in the Regular Army | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment stormed Fort
Wagner July 18, 1863, only to be driven back with the loss of its
colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, and many of its rank and file, it
established for all time the fact that the colored soldier would
fight and fight well. This had already been demonstrated in
Louisiana by colored regiments under the command of General Godfrey
Weitzel in the attack upon Port Hudson on May 27 of the same year.
On that occasion regiments composed for the greater part of raw
recruits, plantation hands with centuries of servitude under the
lash behind them, stormed trenches and dashed upon cold steel in
the hands of their former masters and oppressors. After that there
was no more talk in the portion of the country of the "natural
cowardice" of the negro. But the heroic qualities of Colonel Shaw,
his social prominence and that of his officers, and the comparative
nearness of their battlefield to the North, attracted greater and
more lasting attention to the daring and bravery of their exploit,
until it finally became fixed in many minds as the first real
baptism of fire of colored American soldiers. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 283 | Author: | Wallace, George | Add | | | Title: | From the United States chronicle, Thursday, February 19, 1784. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN this Page last Week a clear Consutation of
the original Claim to the Right of Slavery was given, by that Ornament
of his Profession Judge BLACKSTONE,—the Subject is now
concluded with the Sentiments of that ingenious Lawyer and excellent
Writer GEORGE WALLIS as published in his «
System of the Laws of Sreeland:» —
Speaking of the Negroes that are purchased from their Princes, who
pretend to have a Right to dispose of them, and that they are like other
Commodities, transported by the Merchants, who have bought them, into
America, in Order to be exposed to Sale, he says:—«If
this Trade admits of a rational or a moral Justification, every Crime,
even the most atrocious, may be justified. Government was instituted for
the Good of Mankind; Kings, Princes, Governors, are not Proprietors of
those who are subject to their Authority; they have not a Right to make
them miserable. On the contrary, their Authority is rested in them, that
they may, by the just, Exercise of it, promote the Happiness of their
People. Of course they have not a Right to dispose of their Liberty, and
to sell them for Slaves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 284 | Author: | Warner, Charles Dudley | Add | | | Title: | "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin." | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | On the 29th of June, 1852, Henry Clay died. In that month the
two great political parties, in their national conventions, had
accepted as a finality all the compromise measures of 1850, and the
last hours of the Kentucky statesman were brightened by the thought
that his efforts had secured the perpetuity of the Union. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 285 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | The Case of the Negro | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ALL attempts to settle the question of the Negro in the South
by his removal from this country have so far failed, and I think
that they are likely to fail. The next census will probably show
that we have nearly ten million black people in the United States,
about eight millions of whom are in the Southern states. In fact,
we have almost a nation within a nation. The Negro population in
the United States lacks but two millions of being as large as the
whole population of Mexico, and is nearly twice as large as that of
Canada. Our black people equal in number the combined populations
of Switzerland, Greece, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, Uraguay [sic],
Santo Domingo, Paraguay, and Costa Rica. When we consider, in
connection with these facts, that the race has doubled itself since
its freedom, and is still increasing, it hardly seems possible for
any one to take seriously any scheme of emigration from America as
a method of solution. At most, even if the government were to
provide the means, but a few hundred thousand could be transported
each year. The yearly increase in population would more than
likely overbalance the number transported. Even if it did not, the
time required to get rid of the Negro by this method would perhaps
be fifty or seventy-five years. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 287 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | The Religious Life of the Negro. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN everything that I have been able to read about the
religious life of the Negro, it has seemed to me that writers have
been too much disposed to treat of it as something fixed and
unchanging. They have not sufficiently emphasized the fact that
the Negro people, in respect to their religious life, have been,
almost since they landed in America, in a process of change and
growth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 288 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute celebrates this
year on April 4, 5 and 6, its twenty-fifth birthday. As I look
back at its humble beginnings, and its gradual growth into what it
is, and the promise of what it shall be, it seems to me that one of
its more important services has been to provide Negroes with an
unusual opportunity to engage in the education and upbuilding of
their own race. This school represents, in a large measure, the
effort of the Negro race to help itself, and therein is the real
significance of its work. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 290 | Author: | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The Invisible Man | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a
biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over
the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station,
and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt
hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow
had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white
crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the Coach and
Horses, more dead than alive as it seemed, and flung his portmanteau
down. "A fire," he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and
a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar,
and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain.
And with that much introduction, that and a ready acquiescence
to terms and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took
up his quarters in the inn. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 297 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Add | | | Title: | 'Copy': A Dialogue | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MRS. AMBROSE DALE— forty, slender, still young—sits in her
drawing-room at the tea-table. The winter twilight is
falling, a lamp has been lit, there is a fire on the hearth,
and the room is pleasantly dim and flower-scented. Books are
scattered everywhere—mostly with autograph inscriptions "From
the Author"—and a large portrait of MRS. DALE at her
desk, with papers strewn about her, takes up one of the wall-panels. Before MRS. DALE stands HILDA, fair and
twenty, her hands full of letters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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