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  1. Last 7 days
    1. and I am glad that the omniscient God held the balance of battle in His Almighty hand, and that human slavery was swept forever from American soil — that the American Union was saved from the wreck of war.

      yes slavery was erased from America and probability of it returning back is because of a smarter generation and

    2. There was a South of slavery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour.

      yes that south is had die, but that south created some of the worst conditions for blacks in america by developing the white supremacy thoughts

    1. All men are created free and equal.” Taught now to live and work for the common weal, and not for the maintenance of a royal family or an overbearing aristocracy, not for the continuance of a social system which ranks them beneath an arrogant class of drones, children of Russian and German serfs, of Irish evicted tenants, Scotch crofters, and other victims of feudal tyranny, are translated into republican Americans, and are made in one love for a country which provides equal rights and privileges for all her children

      in that time of the 1800's man write that all men are created free and equal but don't do what they write when they practice seprated but not equal to the black of america

    2. children of Irishmen, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Swedes, side by side with the native American, all to be fused into one, in language, in thought, in feeling, and in patriotism.

      in 1885 it seems that Andrew Carnegie noted did not included the american blacks who help build this country with free labor .

    1. The tale of the wrongs, the oppressions, the murders of the Pacific-slope Indians in the last thirty years would be a volume by itself, and is too monstrous to be believed.

      do we really know how many natives were really killed doing this time in the development of the United States at this time in American history

    2. There is not among these three hundred bands of Indians one which has not suffered cruelly at the hands either of the Government or of white settler

      this is how the government of the United States let the settlers kill off the natives to take their land.

  2. Jan 2026
    1. I cannot understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us, as it did General Miles, and then breaks his word. Such a government has something wrong about i

      the government of the United States continue to break treaty it has signed many years ago and continue to do the same as today

    2. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

      it seems that the government of the United States gave the natives no choice but to give in to its demands