At last Con-gress gave way to the South-ern States; but made a law that there should be a line drawn through the land, north of which no State should hold slaves.
At last Con-gress made a law that all new states should do as they pleased.
Here he found he had a hard task; for he and his Con-gress did not think the same on the great ques-tions of the day and were ev-er at strife.
He was a young man when his state sent him to Wash-ing-ton where he held his place in Con-gress for ten years.
Soon af-ter this great act he left Con-gress and turned his mind to the laws of his own State; he made them safe and just for all men, both rich and poor.
In Con-gress he would, when he rose to speak, some-times choke with blind rage if he could not make his point and force men to yield to him.
He was sent to Con-gress by his state; and then made its gov-ern-or for three terms.
In a minute, the heavy Parrotts of De Gress are pouring their shrapnel into the faces of the Union troops, who are, three hundred yards away, forming for a rush to recapture them.
In dozens of encounters the four heavy twenty-pound Parrotts of De Gress have been an object of the maddest attack.
We live in a cinchry iv pro-gress an' I thank th' Lord I've seen most iv it.
There was much talk iv pro-gress in lithrachoor an' science which he was in favor iv hangin'.
I sometimes wondher whether pro-gress is anny more thin a kind iv a shift.
If Con- gress should pass a law prohibiting the reading of Shakespeare, every American would rise in defence of his right to read the works of the greatest man 298 this world has known.
The fact is, the American people would not allow Con- gress to pass a law preventing them from reading any good book.
The place was literally too hot to allow of a man exposing himself, and all but Logan, Stolbrand, and De Gress sought cover, and clung as closely as possible to the ground.
It was then discovered that the hill on which De Gress had posted his guns had been cleared by the rebels and one tree left standing as a target for artillery practice.
The first round of De Gress came very near being his last, for the ten guns in the rebel fort beyond the river opened simultaneously on him, and every shot fell among the guns and troops supporting them.
Several persons had made inquiries and suggestions as to the purpose of the rebels in clearing the hill and forming the abatis around it, but it was not until De Gress had opened fire on Resaca that the mystery was solved.
Here I could see the rebels at their guns, watch De Gress and Stolbrand at theirs, and, by turning half around, see the troops which lay near me supporting the battery.
Meantime the rebels were firing vigorously, and after two or three shots De Gress was silenced--not that his guns were disabled, but that the men could not work them.
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