The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... hundred years , and as one who would rather have his native clime excel than be excelled , we feel constrained to confess that we are deeply abashed and chagrined at the disclosures of the comparison thus instituted . At the time of the ...
... hundred years , and as one who would rather have his native clime excel than be excelled , we feel constrained to confess that we are deeply abashed and chagrined at the disclosures of the comparison thus instituted . At the time of the ...
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... hundred trading ships , and her di- rect foreign trade exceeded that of the City of New - York , now the centre of trade and the great emporium of North America . At the period of the war of independence , the commerce of Virginia was ...
... hundred trading ships , and her di- rect foreign trade exceeded that of the City of New - York , now the centre of trade and the great emporium of North America . At the period of the war of independence , the commerce of Virginia was ...
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... hundreds of thousands of foreigners to settle and remain amongst them ; that almost everything produced at the North meets with ready sale , while , at the same time , there is no demand , even among our own citizens , for the ...
... hundreds of thousands of foreigners to settle and remain amongst them ; that almost everything produced at the North meets with ready sale , while , at the same time , there is no demand , even among our own citizens , for the ...
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... hundred and twenty - three thou- sand one hundred and fifty - two bushels , and a difference in value of forty - four million seven hundred and eighty - two thou sand six hundred and thirty - six dollars . Please bear these facts in ...
... hundred and twenty - three thou- sand one hundred and fifty - two bushels , and a difference in value of forty - four million seven hundred and eighty - two thou sand six hundred and thirty - six dollars . Please bear these facts in ...
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... hundred and fifteen thousand tons of Northern hay every year ; and this , as we are informed by the dealers above - mentioned , at an average cost to the last purchaser , by the time it is stow- ed in the mow , of at least twenty - five ...
... hundred and fifteen thousand tons of Northern hay every year ; and this , as we are informed by the dealers above - mentioned , at an average cost to the last purchaser , by the time it is stow- ed in the mow , of at least twenty - five ...
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Página 213 - That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Página 193 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Página 242 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Página 193 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain...
Página 272 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 205 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of HEAVEN on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Página 194 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 242 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 133 - State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States...
Página 272 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.