J.L.M. Curry: A Biography |
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J L M CURRY A BIOG Edwin Anderson 1861 Alderman,Armistead C. (Armistead Churchil Gordon No preview available - 2016 |
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Agent Alabama American appointment army attended Baptist bill Calhoun career Church Committee Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution Convention Court Curry writes Curry's debate December democratic diary duties elected eloquence favor February federacy Federal friends Georgia Governor Hayes heard honor House Howell Cobb institutions interest J. L. M. CURRY Jabez January Jefferson John Johnston Lamar later legislature letter Lincoln County Madrid March meeting ment mind Minister Mississippi negro never North October orator party patriotism Peabody Board Peabody Education Fund Peabody Fund period political preacher President race reached record religious Richmond College Robert Toombs Sears secession Secretary Senate session Slater Fund slavery social society soldiers South Carolina Southern Spain speaker speech Talladega Talladega County teachers Tennessee tion Trustees Union United University Virginia vote Washington William Curry Wilmot Proviso Winthrop wrote York young
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Page 142 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 155 - It is joyous in the midst of perilous times to look around upon a people united in heart; where one purpose of high resolve animates and actuates the whole...
Page 79 - To perpetuate them it is our sacred duty to preserve it. Who shall assign limits to the achievements of free minds and free hands under the protection of this glorious Union? No treason to mankind since the organization of society would be equal in atrocity to that of him who would lift his hand to destroy it.
Page 155 - We have changed the constituent parts, but not the system, of our Government. The Constitution formed by our fathers is that of these Confederate States. In their exposition of it, and in the judicial construction it has received, we have a light which reveals its true meaning.
Page 274 - To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business ; To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts, in writing; To improve, by reading, his morals and faculties...
Page 290 - For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Page 101 - But the coincidence of a marked principle, moral and political, with a geographical line, once conceived, I feared would never more be obliterated from the mind ; that it would be recurring on every occasion and renewing irritations, until it would kindle such mutual and mortal hatred, as to render separation preferable to eternal discord.
Page 156 - Reverently let us invoke the God of our fathers to guide and protect us in our efforts to perpetuate the principles which by His blessing they were able to vindicate, establish, and transmit to their posterity ; and with a continuance of His favor, ever gratefully acknowledged, we may hopefully look forward to success, to peace, and to prosperity.
Page 91 - So strongly drawn is the line between the two, in consequence of it, and so strengthened by the force of habit and education, that it is impossible for them to exist together in the same community, where their numbers are so nearly equal as in the slaveholding States, under any other relation than that which now exists.
Page 271 - Louisiana, for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, and industrial education among the white young persons in the city of New Orleans...