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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... secession , and all other subjects , which either at home or abroad have been made use of to complicate the quarrel , are here put aside as irrelevant ; and the philoso- phic observer concentrates the attention of his readers on the ...
... secession , and all other subjects , which either at home or abroad have been made use of to complicate the quarrel , are here put aside as irrelevant ; and the philoso- phic observer concentrates the attention of his readers on the ...
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... secession .—- True origin of the war obscured by its proximate occasion . - War the only arbitrament . — Views of the North : The Unionist sentiment ; The Anti- Slavery sentiment . - Rapid growth of the Anti - Slavery sentiment ...
... secession .—- True origin of the war obscured by its proximate occasion . - War the only arbitrament . — Views of the North : The Unionist sentiment ; The Anti- Slavery sentiment . - Rapid growth of the Anti - Slavery sentiment ...
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... Secession . - Apology for Southern aggression . - Aggression of the Slave Power , in what sense defensive . - The apology admits the charge .. Attempt of John Brown . - Its place in current history CHAPTER VIII . THE DESIGNS OF THE ...
... Secession . - Apology for Southern aggression . - Aggression of the Slave Power , in what sense defensive . - The apology admits the charge .. Attempt of John Brown . - Its place in current history CHAPTER VIII . THE DESIGNS OF THE ...
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... secession . What the constitu- tion and laws of the United States had been on the eve of Mr. Lincoln's election , that they were on its morrow . It was absurd to suppose that one half of a nation should separate from the other because a ...
... secession . What the constitu- tion and laws of the United States had been on the eve of Mr. Lincoln's election , that they were on its morrow . It was absurd to suppose that one half of a nation should separate from the other because a ...
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... 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 régime of slavery with the whole power of the ...
... 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 régime of slavery with the whole power of the ...
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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...