The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American ContestCarleton, 1862 - 171 páginas |
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... give aid or comfort thereto , escaping from such persons , and taking refuge within the lines of the army , and all slaves captured from such persons , or deserted by them , and coming under the control of the government of the United ...
... give aid or comfort thereto , escaping from such persons , and taking refuge within the lines of the army , and all slaves captured from such persons , or deserted by them , and coming under the control of the government of the United ...
Página xi
... give the whole subject a popular and practical treatment , in the hope of contributing something to the elucidation of a question of vast importance , not only to Ame- rica , but to the whole civilized world . The rapid movement of ...
... give the whole subject a popular and practical treatment , in the hope of contributing something to the elucidation of a question of vast importance , not only to Ame- rica , but to the whole civilized world . The rapid movement of ...
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... give it some support . The occasion on which secession was pro- claimed was the election of a Republican President , who , far from being the uncompromising champion of abolition , had declared himself ready to maintain the existing ...
... give it some support . The occasion on which secession was pro- claimed was the election of a Republican President , who , far from being the uncompromising champion of abolition , had declared himself ready to maintain the existing ...
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... give its moral support ? This country has long made up its mind as to the impossibility of forcibly reconstructing the Union ; perhaps it has also satisfied . itself of the undesirableness of this result . Of neither of these opinions ...
... give its moral support ? This country has long made up its mind as to the impossibility of forcibly reconstructing the Union ; perhaps it has also satisfied . itself of the undesirableness of this result . Of neither of these opinions ...
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... gives to the exertions of the small proprietor . But there is another essential circumstance in which these two classes of crops differ . A single labourer , Mr. Russell tells us , † can cultivate twenty acres of wheat or Indian corn ...
... gives to the exertions of the small proprietor . But there is another essential circumstance in which these two classes of crops differ . A single labourer , Mr. Russell tells us , † can cultivate twenty acres of wheat or Indian corn ...
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The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an ... John Elliott Cairnes Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
Términos y frases comunes
African slave trade aggressive agriculture ambition American annexation anti-slavery become career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation Democratic despotism districts economic effect emancipation equal established exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law human important increase independence industry influence institution interests Kansas land less Louisiana master mean whites ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted's once peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable progress proprietors purpose question race regarded result secession Senate settlement slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party square mile success tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth West Indies whole
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Página ix - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página ix - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 95 - 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 89 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 126 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página x - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Página x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Página 129 - That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments, to protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.
Página 96 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página ix - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...