The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... give the fictions of slavery ; men should give the facts . I trust that my friends and fellow - citizens of the South will read this book - nay , proud as any Southerner though I am , I entreat , I beg of them to do so . And as the work ...
... give the fictions of slavery ; men should give the facts . I trust that my friends and fellow - citizens of the South will read this book - nay , proud as any Southerner though I am , I entreat , I beg of them to do so . And as the work ...
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... give up the one or submit to the other , we will forfeit the pound of flesh nearest our heart . Is this sufficiently explicit and categorical ? If not , we hold ourself in readiness at all times , to return a prompt reply to any proper ...
... give up the one or submit to the other , we will forfeit the pound of flesh nearest our heart . Is this sufficiently explicit and categorical ? If not , we hold ourself in readiness at all times , to return a prompt reply to any proper ...
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... give us a fair and patient hearing , we feel confident that we can bring them to the same conclusion . Indeed , we believe we shall be enabled - not alone by our own contributions , but with the aid of incontestable facts . and ...
... give us a fair and patient hearing , we feel confident that we can bring them to the same conclusion . Indeed , we believe we shall be enabled - not alone by our own contributions , but with the aid of incontestable facts . and ...
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... gives way to a feeling of intense mortifica tion , and our soul involuntarily , but justly , we believe , cries out for retribution against the treacherous , slavedriving legislators , who have so basely and unpatriotically neglected ...
... gives way to a feeling of intense mortifica tion , and our soul involuntarily , but justly , we believe , cries out for retribution against the treacherous , slavedriving legislators , who have so basely and unpatriotically neglected ...
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... give circulation to other facts of equal significance , we quote a single passage from an address by Paul C. Cameron , before the Agricultural Society of Orange County , North Carolina . This production is , in the main , so powerfully ...
... give circulation to other facts of equal significance , we quote a single passage from an address by Paul C. Cameron , before the Agricultural Society of Orange County , North Carolina . This production is , in the main , so powerfully ...
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Página 180 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 132 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 427 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray- — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 249 - 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 398 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Página 398 - 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 132 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 426 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Página 297 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 180 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become...