The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet itBurdick brothers, 1860 - 420 páginas |
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... truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take a survey of the relative position and importance of the several states of this confederacy , from the adoption of the na- tional compact ; and ...
... truths require no argumentative demonstration . What we mean to do is simply this : to take a survey of the relative position and importance of the several states of this confederacy , from the adoption of the na- tional compact ; and ...
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... and the second is to show slave- holders themselves - we have reference only to those who are not too pei verse , or ignorant , to perceive naked truths -that free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
... and the second is to show slave- holders themselves - we have reference only to those who are not too pei verse , or ignorant , to perceive naked truths -that free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
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... truth - murdering declamations of these champions of slavery , and , in the absence of a more poli- tic method of giving vent to our disgust and indignation , have involuntarily bit our lips into blisters . The lords of the lash are not ...
... truth - murdering declamations of these champions of slavery , and , in the absence of a more poli- tic method of giving vent to our disgust and indignation , have involuntarily bit our lips into blisters . The lords of the lash are not ...
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... truth in the general reckon- ing . We can prove , and we intend to prove , from facts in our possession , that the hay crop of the free States is worth considerably more in dollars and cents than all the cotton , tobacco , rice , hay ...
... truth in the general reckon- ing . We can prove , and we intend to prove , from facts in our possession , that the hay crop of the free States is worth considerably more in dollars and cents than all the cotton , tobacco , rice , hay ...
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... truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one of the leading and lucrative pursuits of the free States , that the soil there is an uninterrupted barren waste , and ...
... truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave - driving oligarchy would whip us into the belief that agriculture is not one of the leading and lucrative pursuits of the free States , that the soil there is an uninterrupted barren waste , and ...
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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.