The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... say ; it is all well enough for women to give the fictions of slavery ; men should give the facts . I trust that my friends and fellow - citizens of the South will read this book - nay , proud as any Southerner though I am , I entreat ...
... say ; it is all well enough for women to give the fictions of slavery ; men should give the facts . I trust that my friends and fellow - citizens of the South will read this book - nay , proud as any Southerner though I am , I entreat ...
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... says one of Virginia's own sons ? He still lives ; hear him speak . Says Gov. Wise : " It may be painful , but nevertheless , profitable , to re- cur occasionally to the history of the past ; to listen to the admonitions of experience ...
... says one of Virginia's own sons ? He still lives ; hear him speak . Says Gov. Wise : " It may be painful , but nevertheless , profitable , to re- cur occasionally to the history of the past ; to listen to the admonitions of experience ...
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... say nothing of other advantages , she enjoyed greater facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia . She had a right to get custom wherever she could find it , and in securing so valuable a customer as the Quaker City , she ...
... say nothing of other advantages , she enjoyed greater facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia . She had a right to get custom wherever she could find it , and in securing so valuable a customer as the Quaker City , she ...
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... say more in illustra- tion of this unmanly and unnational dependence , which is so glaring that it cannot fail to be apparent to even the most careless and superficial observer . All the world . sees , or ought to see , that in a ...
... say more in illustra- tion of this unmanly and unnational dependence , which is so glaring that it cannot fail to be apparent to even the most careless and superficial observer . All the world . sees , or ought to see , that in a ...
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... says : " The cultivation of statistics must be the source of all future improvement in the science of political ... say , they were about to ob- tain records of observation , which would test the accu- racy of recognized principles , and ...
... says : " The cultivation of statistics must be the source of all future improvement in the science of political ... say , they were about to ob- tain records of observation , which would test the accu- racy of recognized principles , and ...
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abolition of slavery abolitionist acre admitted agricultural Alabama American amount annually Arkansas average bushels California census cents Charleston commerce Connecticut cotton curse degradation Delaware duty emancipation evil 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
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Página 277 - And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, The widow, and the fatherless, And that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, Saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 263 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página 412 - And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day...
Página 197 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Página 217 - 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 195 - 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 217 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage...
Página 247 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 276 - 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 195 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and...