The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... who rises here to defend slavery on principle . " It is well known that he emancipated all his negroes. THE VOICE OF RANDOLPH . In an address to the Virginia Legislature , in 1820. 9 * SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY . 201.
... who rises here to defend slavery on principle . " It is well known that he emancipated all his negroes. THE VOICE OF RANDOLPH . In an address to the Virginia Legislature , in 1820. 9 * SOUTHERN TESTIMONY AGAINST SLAVERY . 201.
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... Legislature of Virginia , used the following most graphic and emphatic language :" I agree with gentlemen in the necessity of arming the State for internal defence . I will unite with them in any effort to restore confidence to the ...
... Legislature of Virginia , used the following most graphic and emphatic language :" I agree with gentlemen in the necessity of arming the State for internal defence . I will unite with them in any effort to restore confidence to the ...
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... Legislature :" Who that looks to this unhappy bondage of an unhappy people , in the midst of our society , and thinks of its incidents or issues , but weeps over it as a curse as great upon him who inflicts as upon him who suffers it ...
... Legislature :" Who that looks to this unhappy bondage of an unhappy people , in the midst of our society , and thinks of its incidents or issues , but weeps over it as a curse as great upon him who inflicts as upon him who suffers it ...
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... Legislature of Virginia , in 1832 , Mr. Leigh said :" I thought , till very lately , that it was known to every body F 13 2 .4 0 0 . 34. 2 ww. THE VOICE OF IREDELL . THE VOICE OF MARSHALL . THE VOICE OF SUMMERS . 210 SOUTHERN TESTIMONY ...
... Legislature of Virginia , in 1832 , Mr. Leigh said :" I thought , till very lately , that it was known to every body F 13 2 .4 0 0 . 34. 2 ww. THE VOICE OF IREDELL . THE VOICE OF MARSHALL . THE VOICE OF SUMMERS . 210 SOUTHERN TESTIMONY ...
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... Legislature , in 1832 :" Wherefore , then , object to slavery ? Because it is ruinous to the whites - retards improvements , roots out an industrious population , banishes the yeomanry of the country - deprives the spinner , the weaver ...
... Legislature , in 1832 :" Wherefore , then , object to slavery ? Because it is ruinous to the whites - retards improvements , roots out an industrious population , banishes the yeomanry of the country - deprives the spinner , the weaver ...
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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...