Download or read book The Progress of Civilization in the United States Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina at Columbia S written by Henry W. Hilliard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Progress of Civilization in the United States: Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S. C., June 30th, 1871 South Carolina shone with full-orbed splendor in the great con stellation of States that formed the American Union. Her public men shed lustre upon her name, and took the foremost rank among the statesmen who at that time filled the great places of trust in the Republic and adorned its councils. 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Progress of Civilization in the United States written by Henry Washington Hilliard and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Southern Moderate in Radical Times written by David I. Durham and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard (1808--1892), a southern politician whose opposition to secession placed him at odds with many of his peers in the South's elite class. Durham weaves threads of American legal, social, and diplomatic history to tell the story of this fascinating man who, living during a time of unrestrained destruction as well as seemingly endless possibilities, consistently focused on the positive elements in society even as forces beyond his control shaped his destiny. A three-term congressman from Alabama, as well as professor, attorney, diplomat, minister, soldier, and author, Hilliard had a career that spanned more than six decades and involved work on three continents. He modeled himself on the ideal of the erudite statesman and celebrated orator, and strove to maintain that persona throughout his life. As a member of Congress, he strongly opposed secession from the Union. No radical abolitionist, Hilliard supported the constitutional legality of slavery, but working in the tradition of the great moderates, he affirmed the status quo and warned of the dangers of change. For a period of time he and like-minded colleagues succeeded in overcoming the more radical voices and blocking disunion, but their success was short-lived and eventually overwhelmed by the growing appeal of sectional extremism. As Durham shows, Hilliard's personal suffering, tempered by his consistent faith in Divine Providence, eventually allowed him to return to his ideological roots and find a lasting sense of accomplishment late in life by becoming the unlikely spokesman for the Brazilian antislavery cause. Drawing on a large range of materials, from Hilliard's literary addresses at South Carolina College and the University of Alabama to his letters and speeches during his tenure in Brazil, Durham reveals an intellectual struggling to understand his world and to reconcile the sphere of the intellectual with that of the church and political interests. A Southern Moderate in Radical Times opens a window into Hilliard's world, and reveals the tragedy of a visionary who understood the dangers lurking in the conflicts he could not control.
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Download or read book William Gilmore Simms s Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization written by William Gilmore Simms and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During William Gilmore Simms's life (1806-1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the importance of those genres. William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization publishes for the first time in book form sixty-two examples of the writer's hundreds of newspaper and periodical reviews and book notes as well as four important critical essays. Together, the reviews and essays reveal the regional, national, and international dimensions of Simms's intellectual interests. To frame the two distinct parts of Selected Reviews, James Everett Kibler, Jr., and David Moltke-Hansen have written a general introduction that considers the development of book reviewing and the authorship of essays in cultural and historical contexts. In part one, Kibler offers an introduction that examines Simms's reviewing habits and the aesthetic and critical values that informed the author's reviews. Kibler then publishes selected texts of reviews and provides historical and cultural backgrounds for each selection. Simms was an early proponent of the critical theories of Romantics such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edgar Allan Poe. Widely read in European history and literature, he reviewed works published in French, German, and classics in original Greek and Latin and in translation. Simms also was an early, ardent advocate of works of local color and of southern "backwoods" humorists of his day. Simms published notices of seven of Herman Melville's novels, the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and favorably reviewed Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Simms published numerous review essays of twenty thousand or more words in literary journals and also republished two collections in book form. These volumes treated such subjects as Americanism in literature and the American Revolution in South Carolina. Yet, as part two of Selected Reviews demonstrates, Simms ranged much more widely in the intellectual milieu. Such cultural and political topics as the 1848 revolution in France, the history of the literary essay, the roles of women in the American Revolution, and the activities of the southern convention in Nashville in 1850 captured Simms's attention. Moltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.
Download or read book State Publications written by Richard Rogers Bowker and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Necessity the Reality and the Promise of the Progress of the Human Race written by George Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Necessity The Reality And The Promise Of The Progress Of The Human Race written by George Bancroft and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston written by Maurie D. McInnis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America. While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served. The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.
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Download or read book The Mind of the Master Class written by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.
Download or read book TRUE AIMS OF AMER AMBITION written by Robert Taylor 1810-1858 Conrad and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Address Delivered by Hon Allen G Thurman written by Allen Granbery Thurman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered by Hon. Allen G. Thurman: Before the Literary Societies, of the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va;, Wednesday, June 26th, 1872 The first danger to the duration of the Republic, .of which I shall Speak, is that likely to result from its mag nitude. It is a trite observation that nations, like men, have their infancy, youth, manhood, Old age, decay, and dissolution. Whether this analogy be fanciful or not, the history of the world gives no small support to the idea, that nature has set a limit to the growth and dura tion of empire. The fate Of Babylon, Nineveh, Assyria, Media, Egypt, Of the Empires of Alexander, the Caesars, Genghis, Tamerlane, the Caliphs, Charlemagne, and Charles the Fifth, cannot, while it strikes our imagina tion, fail to arrest our attention. We pause and ask Is it ever thus to be 'p But let. Us not be too hasty in our conclusions. True, those great monarchies have been rent into pieces; true, the seats Of some-of them are now given up to desolation; but it does not follow that a similar fate awaits us. They were, for the most part, the product of conquest, and over their wide domains despotism held unlimited sway. Their fate teaches how insecure is the empire whose sole foundation is violence, and how powerless is tyranny to perpetuate Its rule over an unwilling people. But it does not teach - at least it does not prove - that a homogeneous people, under free institutions, may not attain and preserve a greatness that none of those States ever knew. To our country it reserved to make this mighty experiment, than whichnothing grander has ever engaged the sympathies or the efforts Of man. Let us not, with despondent souls, rashly predict its failure - but, rather, with hopeful hearts and patriotic zeal, let us manfully strive for its successful accomplishment. That our Republic, if it hold together, will attain an unexampled and perilous greatness is cer tainly true. Only fifty years hence our population will probablv exceed or four times the present population Of France. At. The end of a century, in 1979, if it increase in the same ratio that has hitherto marked its growth, the United States will contain more than twice as many people as now inhabit the continent of Europe. If it be inadmissible to suppose that this ratio ofincrease will continue, it is not irrational to aflirm, that within the lifetime of a child now born, our population will equal that of the five great Powers Of Europe combined. Such an aggregation of mankind, for the most part homogene ous, belonging to the most intellectual and energetic portion of the human race, speaking the same language, all more or less educated, occupying one of the fairest and most fruitful portions of the earth in that North Tem perate Zone that seems to be the chosen habitation of civilization and progress, united under one government, and that a government of free institutions, will present a phenomenon such as never yet has been seen in the world. History exhibits nothing like it. Nothing that bears any close analogy to it. It strikes the imagination like the dawn Ofa millenium, and even the most sanguine and hopeful can scarcely regard it as more than a dream. But, who is there wise enough to foresee that it will not be reality? 7110 is there bold enough to say that the Provi dence that creates will not preserve? Ivho is there author ized to condemn as blind and unreasoning optimism, the hope that the experiment may be crowned with success? It is true that a contrariety of interests is incident to so great and varied a territory. Ivith but one interruption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
