Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volumen1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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... reached $ 72,000,000 , and all breadstuffs and provisions only $ 26,000,000.1 VIII FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW - 1793 Contemporaneous with the cotton - gin came , in 1793 , the first fugitive - slave law . The Constitution was not self ...
... reached $ 72,000,000 , and all breadstuffs and provisions only $ 26,000,000.1 VIII FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW - 1793 Contemporaneous with the cotton - gin came , in 1793 , the first fugitive - slave law . The Constitution was not self ...
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... reaching out for more room and more territory to perpetuate itself . Americans , like their natural kinsmen the Englishmen , then regarded not the rights of others , the weak especially , when the slave power was involved . Sam Houston ...
... reaching out for more room and more territory to perpetuate itself . Americans , like their natural kinsmen the Englishmen , then regarded not the rights of others , the weak especially , when the slave power was involved . Sam Houston ...
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... reaching the Presidency , and so embittered him that he became the champion , first of nullification , then of disunion . There is not room here to speak in detail of the other champions of the great debate on the Clay resolutions . On ...
... reaching the Presidency , and so embittered him that he became the champion , first of nullification , then of disunion . There is not room here to speak in detail of the other champions of the great debate on the Clay resolutions . On ...
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... reached marked an epoch in American history , and it gave slavery an apparent perpetual lease of life ; this was , however , only apparent . The case was twice argued by eminent lawyers ; Blair and G. F. Curtis for Dred Scott , and by ...
... reached marked an epoch in American history , and it gave slavery an apparent perpetual lease of life ; this was , however , only apparent . The case was twice argued by eminent lawyers ; Blair and G. F. Curtis for Dred Scott , and by ...
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... reaching its consummation . There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition or a dissolution of the Union . " The best , most candid , conservative , and comprehensive statement in explanation and vindication of ...
... reaching its consummation . There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition or a dissolution of the Union . " The best , most candid , conservative , and comprehensive statement in explanation and vindication of ...
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Página 138 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Página 138 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Página 178 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Página 4 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven : neither is there respect of persons with him."-— Eph.
Página 110 - 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 126 - 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 150 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 4 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Página 151 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 20 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...