The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick Brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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Página 105
... regard him as good authority , the Washington Union was brought into exis- tence under the peculiar auspices of the ostensible editor of the Richmond Enquirer ; and the two papers , fathered by the same individual , have gone hand in ...
... regard him as good authority , the Washington Union was brought into exis- tence under the peculiar auspices of the ostensible editor of the Richmond Enquirer ; and the two papers , fathered by the same individual , have gone hand in ...
Página 107
... regard himself as the centre around whom everybody else should revolve . On the contrary , he was a genuine philanthropist . While , with a shrewdness that will command the admira- tion of every practical business man , he engaged in ...
... regard himself as the centre around whom everybody else should revolve . On the contrary , he was a genuine philanthropist . While , with a shrewdness that will command the admira- tion of every practical business man , he engaged in ...
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... regard to the unnational and demoralizing institu tion of slavery , we believe the majority of Northern people are too scrupulous . They seem to think that it is enough for them to be mere freesoilers , to keep in check the diffu sive ...
... regard to the unnational and demoralizing institu tion of slavery , we believe the majority of Northern people are too scrupulous . They seem to think that it is enough for them to be mere freesoilers , to keep in check the diffu sive ...
Página 122
... regard to agriculture , and all the multifarious interests of husbandry , we deem it quite un- necessary to say more . Cotton has been shorn of its magic power , and is no longer King ; dried grass , common- ly called hay , is , it ...
... regard to agriculture , and all the multifarious interests of husbandry , we deem it quite un- necessary to say more . Cotton has been shorn of its magic power , and is no longer King ; dried grass , common- ly called hay , is , it ...
Página 134
... regard to fer- tility of soil , the Pennsylvania tract always has been , is now , and perhaps always will be , rather inferior to the one under special consideration . One is of the same size as the other ; both are used for ...
... regard to fer- tility of soil , the Pennsylvania tract always has been , is now , and perhaps always will be , rather inferior to the one under special consideration . One is of the same size as the other ; both are used for ...
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abolition of slavery abolitionist acre admitted agricultural Alabama American amount Arkansas average bushels California census cents Charleston commerce Connecticut cotton curse degradation Delaware duty emancipation evil existence extract fact favor Florida free labor freedom Georgia H. R. HELPER Hampshire holders honor human human bondage hundred ignorance Illinois Indiana institution interests Iowa Jefferson Jersey justice Kentucky land less liberty literature Louisiana manufactures March Maryland Massachusetts master ment merchants Michigan millions of dollars mind Mississippi Missouri moral nation nature negroes never New-York non-slaveholding whites North Carolina Northern Ohio oligarchy patriotism Pennsylvania political population present principles pro-slavery profit prosperity published real and personal Rhode Island says slave labor SLAVE STATES-1850 slave-driving slaveholders society soil South Southern Southern literature square miles TABLE Tennessee territory Texas thousand tion truth Union Vermont Virginia VOICE vote wealth whole Wisconsin York
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Página 213 - That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Página 193 - 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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Página 242 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Página 193 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain...
Página 272 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 205 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of HEAVEN on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Página 194 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 242 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 133 - State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States...
Página 272 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.