The Black HoodD. Appleton, 1924 - Počet stran: 336 |
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Strana 2
... force with force and won by audacity . The Reconstruction Government had been established by the bayonets of the northern army . The negroes , wearing yet the rags of four thousand years of slavery , suddenly clothed with the sovereign ...
... force with force and won by audacity . The Reconstruction Government had been established by the bayonets of the northern army . The negroes , wearing yet the rags of four thousand years of slavery , suddenly clothed with the sovereign ...
Strana 3
... force might be as suddenly overturned by force . The Ku Klux Klan appeared . Their white - robed men and horses struck sudden terror to the ignorant rabble of new voters . On the night before the election ghosts rapped on every negro's ...
... force might be as suddenly overturned by force . The Ku Klux Klan appeared . Their white - robed men and horses struck sudden terror to the ignorant rabble of new voters . On the night before the election ghosts rapped on every negro's ...
Strana 9
Thomas Dixon. document with which he could return the blow with double force . With that folded piece of paper he could impeach and hurl this incompetent blustering jayhawker from the bench . And he'd do it , too , if provoked . Craig ...
Thomas Dixon. document with which he could return the blow with double force . With that folded piece of paper he could impeach and hurl this incompetent blustering jayhawker from the bench . And he'd do it , too , if provoked . Craig ...
Strana 48
... forces that would give him victory . It took money to make them worth while . He had the money . He smiled with the con- sciousness of power . Of course , he had taken her mild pretension of love with a grain of salt . She was too young ...
... forces that would give him victory . It took money to make them worth while . He had the money . He smiled with the con- sciousness of power . Of course , he had taken her mild pretension of love with a grain of salt . She was too young ...
Strana 65
... force that held the hostile crowd in silence before he reached the courtroom . The night before in his stolen house , confronted by the man whom he had wronged , he had been at a disadvantage . Courage couldn't count against the moral force ...
... force that held the hostile crowd in silence before he reached the courtroom . The night before in his stolen house , confronted by the man whom he had wronged , he had been at a disadvantage . Courage couldn't count against the moral force ...
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Strana 149 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 149 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Strana 325 - ... been led to the scaffold. And the voice of an indignant public would have said that he suffered justly for his crime. Let us imagine one of the mutineers in a court of justice, and urging the following excuses to the judge. Judge. — You have been accused of mutiny, and are found guilty ; and now what have you to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced against you?
Strana 50 - She seated herself at the piano and ran her fingers lightly over the keys. He followed, a frown clouding his smooth forehead. "Will you hear me?
Strana 220 - He has the power of life and death over every man, woman and child in the tribe and is answerable to no one.
Strana 101 - He saw a dime on the floor. He picked it up and put it in his pocket.
Strana 126 - He found it next to impossible, ^n spite of the utmost vigilance on the part of his committees, the new Klan had inaugurated a reign of folly and terror unprecedented in the history of the whole Reconstruction saturnalia, y They whipped scalawag politicians night after night and drove them from the county.
Strana 82 - We rose in a night and seized this dangerous weapon. With mask and revolver we hurled our oppressors from power and sent the negro to school where he must stay for a hundred years of training. Order has been restored. Your legislature has been purged of thieves. A new Governor is in your Capitol. The courts of justice are open. Our work is done —
Strana 150 - ... much of the material on the downfall of the Klan which had previously appeared in The Traitor; but this time Dixon took care to make one of his heroes a Christlike Jewish merchant. "Remember this, Nathan...