The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... Five Points Precinct in 1856 -- Parts played by the Republicans , Whigs , Democrats , and Know - Nothings during the last Presidential Cam- paign - How and why Slavery should be Abolished with- out direct Compensation to the Masters ...
... Five Points Precinct in 1856 -- Parts played by the Republicans , Whigs , Democrats , and Know - Nothings during the last Presidential Cam- paign - How and why Slavery should be Abolished with- out direct Compensation to the Masters ...
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... monstrous iniquity . We want to become an auxiliary in the good work , and facilitate it . The lib eration of five millions of " poor white trash " from the second degree of slavery , and of three millions of 32 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
... monstrous iniquity . We want to become an auxiliary in the good work , and facilitate it . The lib eration of five millions of " poor white trash " from the second degree of slavery , and of three millions of 32 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
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... five to one , they have never yet had any part or lot in framing the laws under which they live . There is no legislation except for the benefit of slave- ry , and slaveholders . As a general rule , poor white per- sons are regarded ...
... five to one , they have never yet had any part or lot in framing the laws under which they live . There is no legislation except for the benefit of slave- ry , and slaveholders . As a general rule , poor white per- sons are regarded ...
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... five dollars per ton ; it would thus appear that this most popular and valuable provender , one of the staple commodities of the North , commands a market in a single s'ave State , to the amount of seven million eight hundred and ...
... five dollars per ton ; it would thus appear that this most popular and valuable provender , one of the staple commodities of the North , commands a market in a single s'ave State , to the amount of seven million eight hundred and ...
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... five thousand dollars per annum . In this same State of Maryland , less than one million of dollar's worth of cotton finds a market , the whole number of bales sold here in 1850 amounting to only twenty - three thousand three hundred ...
... five thousand dollars per annum . In this same State of Maryland , less than one million of dollar's worth of cotton finds a market , the whole number of bales sold here in 1850 amounting to only twenty - three thousand three hundred ...
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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
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Página 275 - 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 194 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 215 - 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 244 - 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 275 - 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 195 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain...
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.
Página 274 - 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 196 - 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 196 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.