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aboard Accessory Transit Company Allies Americans in Nicaragua ammunition arms army arrived attack barricades Belloso body brig British Cabañas California camp Cañas Capt Captain Castellon Central America Chinandega Colonel command Corral Costa Ricans Davis decree Democrats desertion duty enemy Estrada Falange fire force Garrison general-in-chief Granada Guadalupe Guardiola Guatemala Henningsen Honduras Hornsby howitzer hundred Infantry Isthmus Jerez Juan del Norte labor lake latter Legitimists Leon Leoneses Lieut Lockridge Managua Masaya ment Meridional Department military Minister Mora morning movement Muñoz Nandaime native Natzmer night officers party passengers Patricio Rivas Plaza port President Provisional Government Punta Arenas Rangers reached Realejo Republic Rica Rifles Rivas river sailed Salazar San Carlos San Jorge San José San Juan San Juan river San Salvador schooner sent shot slavery soldiers soon steamer tion town treaty troops United Valle vessel Vesta Virgin Bay Walker wounded
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Page 431 - Reduced to our present position by the cowardice of some, the incapacity of others and the treachery of many, the army has yet written a page of American history which it is impossible to forget or erase. From the future, if not from the present, we may expect just judgment.
Page 265 - Union in the conflict truly styled "irrepressible" between free and slave labor. The policy of the act consisted in pointing out to the Southern States the only means, short of revolution, whereby they can preserve their present social organization.
Page 268 - Nicaraguan decree for the abolition of slavery, an action "calculated to bind the Southern States to Nicaragua, as if she were one of themselves." Walker dreamed magnificent dreams of a military empire constituted of Central American states; an interoceanic canal that would attract the shipping of the world; and the use of slave labor in the development of the economy of Central America.
Page 257 - Article I. All acts and decrees of the Federal Constituent Assembly, as well as of the Federal Congress are declared null and void. " Article 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect rights heretofore vested under the acts and decrees hereby repealed.
Page 261 - The conservatism of slavery is deeper than this,' he wrote. 'It goes to the vital relations of capital toward labor, and by the firm footing it gives the former it enables the intellect of society to push boldly forward in the pursuit of new forms of civilization.
Page 55 - But it was not by numbers that the loss of the Americans was to be computed. The chivalrous spirit of Kewen would have weighed against a host of common men ; and the death of Crocker was a loss hardly to be repaired. A boy in appearance, with a slight figure, and a face almost feminine in its delicacy and beauty, he had the heart of a lion...
Page 282 - The true field for the exertion of slavery is in tropical America ; there it finds the natural seat of its empire and thither it can spread if it will but make the effort, regardless of conflicts with adverse interests.
Page 140 - ... the day. Poe pleaded guilty to all but the first specification of the first charge, to which he pleaded not guilty. As that charge was automatically proven by the rollbooks for formations, he thus put himself beyond all recommendations for mercy. " After mature deliberation on the testimony deduced...
Page 255 - The general tendency of those several [land] decrees was the same; they were intended to place a large portion of the land of the country in the hands of the white race. The military force of the State might, for a time, secure the Americans in the government of the Republic, but in order that their possession of government might be permanent, it was requisite for them to hold the...