The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... never falls into our hands again . In one way or another we are more or less subservient to the North every day of our lives . In infancy we are swaddled in Northern muslin ; in childhood we are hu- mored with Northern gewgaws ; in ...
... never falls into our hands again . In one way or another we are more or less subservient to the North every day of our lives . In infancy we are swaddled in Northern muslin ; in childhood we are hu- mored with Northern gewgaws ; in ...
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... never come from thorough scholars or profound thinkers . Among the majority of mankind , the science of statistics is only beginning to be appreciated ; when well understood , it will be recognized as one of the most important branches ...
... never come from thorough scholars or profound thinkers . Among the majority of mankind , the science of statistics is only beginning to be appreciated ; when well understood , it will be recognized as one of the most important branches ...
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... never yet been known to do - -we shall , as a matter of course , see that the above amount is transferred to the credit of the side to which it of right belongs . In making up these tables we have two objects in view ; the first is to ...
... never yet been known to do - -we shall , as a matter of course , see that the above amount is transferred to the credit of the side to which it of right belongs . In making up these tables we have two objects in view ; the first is to ...
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... 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 with less esteem and ...
... 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 with less esteem and ...
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... never told except in public harangues ; for the haughty cava- liers of shackles and handcuffs will not degrade them- selves by holding private converse with those who have neither dimes nor hereditary rights in human flesh . Whenever it ...
... never told except in public harangues ; for the haughty cava- liers of shackles and handcuffs will not degrade them- selves by holding private converse with those who have neither dimes nor hereditary rights in human flesh . Whenever it ...
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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 - If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 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 noonday...
Página 196 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever...
Página 412 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Página 250 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the...
Página 247 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour than advis'd respect.
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 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.