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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... Mexico , and none of the islands which separate it from the ocean , need be abandoned to the barbarism of negro slavery . The European stock is found everywhere , from Texas to Patagonia , and in every part of that whole extent is more ...
... Mexico , and none of the islands which separate it from the ocean , need be abandoned to the barbarism of negro slavery . The European stock is found everywhere , from Texas to Patagonia , and in every part of that whole extent is more ...
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... Mexico is at present a most perplexing question for European statesmen . In the present condition of that country - the prey of contending factions , whose alternate excesses prevent the growth of steady industry , deter European ...
... Mexico is at present a most perplexing question for European statesmen . In the present condition of that country - the prey of contending factions , whose alternate excesses prevent the growth of steady industry , deter European ...
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... Mexico , not- withstanding that it would be attended with the introduction of slavery into a country where labour at present is free , might perhaps be thought to be , on the whole , advantageous . But , if the institution of the South ...
... Mexico , not- withstanding that it would be attended with the introduction of slavery into a country where labour at present is free , might perhaps be thought to be , on the whole , advantageous . But , if the institution of the South ...
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... Mexico , in which forced labour is most productive to those who own it , are made use of by the northern slave States , not merely as markets in which to dispose of slaves as a matter of profit , but as a Botany Bay , furnished to their ...
... Mexico , in which forced labour is most productive to those who own it , are made use of by the northern slave States , not merely as markets in which to dispose of slaves as a matter of profit , but as a Botany Bay , furnished to their ...
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... Mexico and the Gulf of California . " But it is less in the economic , than in the moral and social , attributes of slave societies that we must look for the motive principle of their aggressive ambition . That which the neces- sity for ...
... Mexico and the Gulf of California . " But it is less in the economic , than in the moral and social , attributes of slave societies that we must look for the motive principle of their aggressive ambition . That which the neces- sity for ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky l'esclavage land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations nature necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession Senate slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole
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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 x - 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 90 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; 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 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 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...
Página 131 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Página x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : — SECTION 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way 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 States,...
Página x - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained...
Página ix - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...