"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."

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"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."

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"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."

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"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

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"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended."

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"Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none."

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"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."

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"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."

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"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."

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"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."

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"In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia."

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"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."

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"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection."

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"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."

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"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."

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