The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... moral , and physical , in the great family of man . Neither is it our design to launch into a philosophical disquisition on the laws and principles of light and darkness , with a view of educing any additional evidence of the fact ...
... moral , and physical , in the great family of man . Neither is it our design to launch into a philosophical disquisition on the laws and principles of light and darkness , with a view of educing any additional evidence of the fact ...
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... morally wrong , in the policy under which the South has so long loitered and languished . Else , how is it that the North , under the operations of a policy directly the opposite of ours , has surpassed us in almost everything great and ...
... morally wrong , in the policy under which the South has so long loitered and languished . Else , how is it that the North , under the operations of a policy directly the opposite of ours , has surpassed us in almost everything great and ...
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... moral , and social conditions of States ; he justly remarked , that a numerical statement of the extent , density of population , imports , exports , revenues , etc. , of a country , more per- fectly explained its social condition than ...
... moral , and social conditions of States ; he justly remarked , that a numerical statement of the extent , density of population , imports , exports , revenues , etc. , of a country , more per- fectly explained its social condition than ...
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... moral faculties , and to furnish us with a cor- rect standard of judgment , by enabling us to determine the average amount of the past as a guide to the average probabilities of the future . This science is yet in its in- fancy , but ...
... moral faculties , and to furnish us with a cor- rect standard of judgment , by enabling us to determine the average amount of the past as a guide to the average probabilities of the future . This science is yet in its in- fancy , but ...
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... morals , education , wealth or power . " Impressed with a sense of the propriety of introducing , in this as well as in ... moral and religious aspects that we propose to discuss the question of slavery , as in its social and political ...
... morals , education , wealth or power . " Impressed with a sense of the propriety of introducing , in this as well as in ... moral and religious aspects that we propose to discuss the question of slavery , as in its social and political ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abolition of slavery abolitionist acre admitted agricultural Alabama American amount Arkansas average bushels California census cents Charleston commerce Connecticut cotton curse degradation Delaware duty emancipation evil existence extract fact favor Florida free labor freedom Georgia H. R. HELPER Hampshire holders honor human human bondage hundred ignorance Illinois Indiana institution interests Iowa Jefferson Jersey justice Kentucky land less liberty literature Louisiana manufactures March Maryland Massachusetts master ment merchants Michigan millions of dollars mind Mississippi Missouri moral nation nature negroes never New-York non-slaveholding whites North Carolina Northern Ohio oligarchy patriotism Pennsylvania political population present principles pro-slavery profit prosperity published real and personal Rhode Island says slave labor SLAVE STATES-1850 slave-driving slaveholders society soil South Southern Southern literature square miles TABLE Tennessee territory Texas thousand tion truth Union Vermont Virginia VOICE vote wealth whole Wisconsin York
Pasajes populares
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.