The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1857 - 420 páginas |
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... Whole forests are felled by the ruthless hand of slavery , the trees are cut into logs , rolled into heaps , covered with the limbs . and brush , and then burned on the identical soil that gave them birth . The land itself next falls a ...
... Whole forests are felled by the ruthless hand of slavery , the trees are cut into logs , rolled into heaps , covered with the limbs . and brush , and then burned on the identical soil that gave them birth . The land itself next falls a ...
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... whole value of the same substances annually brought up from beneath the surface of the slave States does not exceed twelve millions . In this respect to what is our poverty ascribable ? To the same cause that has impoverished and ...
... whole value of the same substances annually brought up from beneath the surface of the slave States does not exceed twelve millions . In this respect to what is our poverty ascribable ? To the same cause that has impoverished and ...
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... whole free population of Eastern Virginia . The little State of Massachusetts has an aggregate wealth exceeding that of Virginia by more than $ 126,000,000 . " Just a score of years before these words were penned , the same paper , then ...
... whole free population of Eastern Virginia . The little State of Massachusetts has an aggregate wealth exceeding that of Virginia by more than $ 126,000,000 . " Just a score of years before these words were penned , the same paper , then ...
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... whole system has been paralyzed , her conscience is seared , and she is becoming callous to every principle of justice and magna nimity . Except among the non - slaveholders , who , besides being kept in the grossest ignorance , are ...
... whole system has been paralyzed , her conscience is seared , and she is becoming callous to every principle of justice and magna nimity . Except among the non - slaveholders , who , besides being kept in the grossest ignorance , are ...
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... whole face of the country wears an appearance of almost utter desolation , distressing to the beholder . The very spot on which our ancestors landed , a little more than two hundred years ago , appears to be on the eve of again becoming ...
... whole face of the country wears an appearance of almost utter desolation , distressing to the beholder . The very spot on which our ancestors landed , a little more than two hundred years ago , appears to be on the eve of again becoming ...
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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...