The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1860 - 420 páginas |
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... look to the South for late fashions , and fine silks and satins ; no Quaker dame now wears drab apparel of Charleston importation . Like all other niggervilles in our disreputable part of the confederacy , the commercial em- porium of ...
... look to the South for late fashions , and fine silks and satins ; no Quaker dame now wears drab apparel of Charleston importation . Like all other niggervilles in our disreputable part of the confederacy , the commercial em- porium of ...
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... look for nothing less . But we shal shrink from no responsibility , and do nothing unbecoming a man ; we know how to repel indignity , and if assaulted shall not fail to make the blow recoil upon the aggres sor's head . The road we have ...
... look for nothing less . But we shal shrink from no responsibility , and do nothing unbecoming a man ; we know how to repel indignity , and if assaulted shall not fail to make the blow recoil upon the aggres sor's head . The road we have ...
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... look for his facts ; and all speculations not founded upon facts , though they may be admired and ap plauded when first propounded , will , in the end , assuredly be forgotten . Statistical science may almost be regarded as the creation ...
... look for his facts ; and all speculations not founded upon facts , though they may be admired and ap plauded when first propounded , will , in the end , assuredly be forgotten . Statistical science may almost be regarded as the creation ...
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... look with prejudice and disapprobation upon every new principle or progres- sive movement . Thus it is that the South , woefully inert and inventionless , has lagged behind the North , and is now weltering in the cesspool of ignorance ...
... look with prejudice and disapprobation upon every new principle or progres- sive movement . Thus it is that the South , woefully inert and inventionless , has lagged behind the North , and is now weltering in the cesspool of ignorance ...
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... Look at the facts as pre- sented in the tables , and let your own eyes , physical and intellectual , confirm you in the truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one ...
... Look at the facts as pre- sented in the tables , and let your own eyes , physical and intellectual , confirm you in the truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one ...
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abolition of slavery abolitionist acre agricultural Alabama American amount Arkansas average bushels California census cent Charleston commerce Connecticut cotton curse degradation Delaware duty emancipation evil fact favor Florida free labor free white freedom Georgia H. R. HELPER Hampshire holders honor human human bondage hundred ignorance Illinois Indiana institution interests Iowa James Jefferson Jersey John justice Kentucky land less Letter liberty literature Louisiana manufactures March Maryland Massachusetts master Mayor ment Michigan millions of dollars mind Mississippi Missouri moral nation native nature negroes never New-York non-slaveholding whites North Carolina Northern Ohio oligarchy patriotism Pennsylvania political population present principles profit published Randolph 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 testimony Texas thousand tion truth Union Vermont Virginia VOICE vote wealth Wisconsin York
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Página 261 - 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 194 - 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...
Página 410 - 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 noon day...
Página 410 - 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 230 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Página 274 - Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: 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 215 - 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 223 - The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect.
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 219 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.