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Excerpt from The Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery The insurrection, which occurred in Southampton last summer, was, in every point of view, a most extraordinary event; most extraordinary, whether we have regard to its exciting causes, or its immediate mischiefs, or its general effects. For, as the very peculiar incentives by which it was instigated, could never have been detected by any effort of reason without the positive evidence of facts developed in the trials of the conspirators, and as the gloomiest imagination could hardly have prefigured such a scene of atrocious crime as that which marked the brief career of this rebellion, so no human sagacity could have foreseen, or conjectured, those general and remoter consequences, which have already flowed from it, and which, but too probably, may still flow on; consequences, the direct reverse of what common reason would have anticipated; stranger than the exciting causes of the insurrection; and involving and portending dangers and mischiefs, compared with which the murders perpetrated in its progress, were evils too partial and trivial to deserve a further thought. The proceedings of the house of delegates, would almost seem to justify a belief, that there was something prophetic in that hallucination, by which Nat Turner declared he was himself incited, and instigated to incite others, to that detestable and detested massacre; namely, that "he had repeated revelations from The Spirit, which fully confirmed him in the impression, that he was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty." We have this man's own account of those instigations of the devil (to give them the appropriate epithet) which prompted the conspiracy, and directed, throughout, the execution of its designs. It is curious to observe, how exactly, in his confessions, he describes the usual course of an imposter; the affectation of mystery, sanctity and importance, the partial self-delusion which seems necessary to his success, the resort at last to ordinary incentives to mischief, and the whole process by which he works on the minds of others. 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.

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• Plný název: Letter of Appomatox to the People of Virginia
• Podnázev: Exhibiting a Connected View of the Recent Proceedings in the House of Delegates, on the Subject of the Abolition of Slavery (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Pseud Appomattox
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 52
• EAN: 9781331592570
• ISBN: 9781331592570
• ID: 09766816
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 82 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 3 mm
• Datum vydání: 17. July 2015

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