He was a careful and patient reader of newspapers, the Sangamon Journal —published at Springfield— Louisville Journal, St. Louis Republican, and Cincinnati Gazette being usually within his reach.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

a. Abolition of slavery: civil and political rights of negroes ( 357 - 358 , 373 - 375 ).
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

The moon had risen, and her beams silvered the waves through which the schooner was cutting her way; scarcely a fleeting cloud obscured the brightness of the sky, and all nature seemed hushed in the calm and peaceful repose of night.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

He was a careful and patient reader of newspapers, the Sangamon Journal —published at Springfield
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

But it was insisted that they should be counted equally with the free laborers of the other States; and the result of this attempt to solve a complicated and abstruse question of political economy by a theoretical rule, determining that a slave, as a producer of wealth, stands upon a precise equality with a freeman performing the same species of labor, was, that the Congress of 1776 were driven to the adoption of land as a measure of wealth, instead of the more convenient and practicable rule of numbers.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

A Guide to the Chief Cities and Popular Resorts of New England, and to its Scenery and Historic Attractions.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

“Which tear a daughter from her father?—” “Monsieur—” “Which deprive an old man of his last consolation?—” “Monsieur, your daughter only belongs to you if—” “And kill him?—” “Monsieur, permit me—” There is nothing more horrible than the coolness and precise reasoning of notaries amid the many passionate scenes in which they are accustomed to take part.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

[74] In his analysis of the "Southern Question," Lynch attributed the condition of the South to certain underlying causes, namely: (1) "A continuous and unnecessary opposition of the impracticable element within the ranks of the Democratic Party to the system of reconstruction finally adopted by Congress, and a stubborn refusal on their part to acquiesce in the results of the War"; (2) "the persistent and uncharitable opposition of this same element—the element that had obtained control of the party organization and therefore shaped its policy—to the civil and political rights of Negroes"; and (3) "the methods of the so-called white-league whereby an armed military organization was maintained to effect a condition of white supremacy."
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various