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Página 18
If the answer to this query is not already in the reader's mind , it will suggest itself
before he peruses the whole of this work . For the present , suflice it to say , that
the cause of her shameful insignificance and decline is essentially the same that
...
If the answer to this query is not already in the reader's mind , it will suggest itself
before he peruses the whole of this work . For the present , suflice it to say , that
the cause of her shameful insignificance and decline is essentially the same that
...
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The incontrovertible facts we have thus far presented are , we think , amply
sufficient , both in number and magnitude , to bring conviction to the mind of
every candid reader , that there is something wrong , socially , politically and
morally ...
The incontrovertible facts we have thus far presented are , we think , amply
sufficient , both in number and magnitude , to bring conviction to the mind of
every candid reader , that there is something wrong , socially , politically and
morally ...
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... 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 , or
sickly sentimentality . We have not been hasty in making up our mind on the
subject ...
... 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 , or
sickly sentimentality . We have not been hasty in making up our mind on the
subject ...
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... which , when duly considered in connection with the foregoing and subsequent
portions of our work , will , we believe , carry conviction to the mind that the
downward tendency of the South can be arrested only by the abolition of slavery .
... which , when duly considered in connection with the foregoing and subsequent
portions of our work , will , we believe , carry conviction to the mind that the
downward tendency of the South can be arrested only by the abolition of slavery .
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Please bear these facts in mind , for , in order to show positively how the free and
slave States do stand upon the great and important subject of rural economy , we
intend to take an account of all the other products of the soil , of the live - stock ...
Please bear these facts in mind , for , in order to show positively how the free and
slave States do stand upon the great and important subject of rural economy , we
intend to take an account of all the other products of the soil , of the live - stock ...
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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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