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... and one industrial pursuits of the country , accrue to the North , and are there
invested in the erection of those magnificent cities and stupendous works of art
which dazzle the eyes of the South , and attest the superiority of free institutions !
... and one industrial pursuits of the country , accrue to the North , and are there
invested in the erection of those magnificent cities and stupendous works of art
which dazzle the eyes of the South , and attest the superiority of free institutions !
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... and horrible word , that was ever incorporated into the vocabulary of human
economy - Slavery ! Reared amidst the institution of slavery , believing it to be
wrong both in principle and in practice , and having seen and felt its evil
influences ...
... and horrible word , that was ever incorporated into the vocabulary of human
economy - Slavery ! Reared amidst the institution of slavery , believing it to be
wrong both in principle and in practice , and having seen and felt its evil
influences ...
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Is this sufficiently explicit and categorical ? If not , we hold ourself in readiness at
all times , to return a prompt reply to any proper question that may be
propounded . Our repugnance to the institution of slavery , springs from no one -
sided idea ...
Is this sufficiently explicit and categorical ? If not , we hold ourself in readiness at
all times , to return a prompt reply to any proper question that may be
propounded . Our repugnance to the institution of slavery , springs from no one -
sided idea ...
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Though neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet , our vision is sufficiently
penetrative to divine the future so far as to be able to see that the " peculiar
institution ” has but a short , and , as heretofore , inglorious existence before it .
Time , the ...
Though neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet , our vision is sufficiently
penetrative to divine the future so far as to be able to see that the " peculiar
institution ” has but a short , and , as heretofore , inglorious existence before it .
Time , the ...
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listen to no modifying terms or compromises that may be proposed by the
proprietors of the unprofitable and ungod . ly institution . Nothing short of the
complete abolition of slavery can save the South from falling into the vortex of
utter ruin .
listen to no modifying terms or compromises that may be proposed by the
proprietors of the unprofitable and ungod . ly institution . Nothing short of the
complete abolition of slavery can save the South from falling into the vortex of
utter ruin .
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Related Subjects: Slavery -- United States. | Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 1857. | Southern States -- Economic conditions.
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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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it |
| Autor | Hinton Rowan Helper |
| Editor | Burdick Brothers, 1857 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 3 Ago. 2006 |
| Largo | 420 páginas |
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