The Slave Power; Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American ContestMacmillan, 1863 - 410 páginas |
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Página 195 - on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... 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 passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped
Página 168 - condition. This our Government is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. ... It is upon this our social fabric is firmly planted, and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success
Página iv - African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization—this was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the ' rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right. What was conjecture with him is now a realized
Página 205 - are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national; in the operation of these powers it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again it is federal, not national; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal nor wholly national"—Story on the Constitution of the United States, vol. i., p. 199.
Página 204 - The means by which it has been sought to preserve the balance between these two principles of the Constitution are thus briefly and comprehensively stated in the Federalist:—"The Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government
Página 298 - The importations of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding states or territories of the United States of America is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Página 394 - has indeed been assimilated at the bar to the other domestic relations; and arguments drawn from the well-established principles which confer and restrain the authority of the parent over the child, the tutor over the pupil, the master over the apprentice, have been pressed on us. The court does not
Página 393 - by whipping, or beating with a horse-whip, cow-skin, switch or small stick, or by putting irons on or confining or imprisoning such slave, every such person shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of £100 current money,
Página xxiv - limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means necessary to satisfy them.
Página 174 - girl in this state, that is not the paramour of a white man. There is not an old plantation in which the grandchildren of the owner are not whipped in the field by his overseer. I cannot bear that the blood of the should run in the veins of slaves.