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In a favorable conjuncture they will induce Congress to repeal the act of 1808,
which prohibits the foreign slave-trade, and so they will import from Africa, at the
cost of only $20 a head, slaves enough to fill up the interior of the continent.
In a favorable conjuncture they will induce Congress to repeal the act of 1808,
which prohibits the foreign slave-trade, and so they will import from Africa, at the
cost of only $20 a head, slaves enough to fill up the interior of the continent.
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factures and trade, which were innocent and beneficent, I shall never be a
denizen of a State where men and women are reared as ... It is not a party of the
whole Union, of all the free States and of all the slave States; nor yet is it a party
of the free States in the North and in ... deliberately disfranchised the free colored
or African citizen, and it has pertinaciously continued this disfranchisement ever
since.
factures and trade, which were innocent and beneficent, I shall never be a
denizen of a State where men and women are reared as ... It is not a party of the
whole Union, of all the free States and of all the slave States; nor yet is it a party
of the free States in the North and in ... deliberately disfranchised the free colored
or African citizen, and it has pertinaciously continued this disfranchisement ever
since.
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ander no circumstances would he ever approve a bill for the abolition of Slavery
in the District of Columbia. ... the Democratic party has left only one yet to be
consummated — the abrogation of the law which forbids the African slave trade.
Now ...
ander no circumstances would he ever approve a bill for the abolition of Slavery
in the District of Columbia. ... the Democratic party has left only one yet to be
consummated — the abrogation of the law which forbids the African slave trade.
Now ...
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Its masses want a suppression of tiie African slave trade, and an effectual
exclusion of slavery from the Territories, so that all the new and future States may
surely be fr^e States. The South is hot satisfied. Its masses, by whatever means
and at ...
Its masses want a suppression of tiie African slave trade, and an effectual
exclusion of slavery from the Territories, so that all the new and future States may
surely be fr^e States. The South is hot satisfied. Its masses, by whatever means
and at ...
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It cannot be denied that the African races among us are abject, although their
condition and even their presence here are due not to their will or fault, but to ...
half a century since we or any European nation interdicted the African slave trade
.
It cannot be denied that the African races among us are abject, although their
condition and even their presence here are due not to their will or fault, but to ...
half a century since we or any European nation interdicted the African slave trade
.
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Página 5 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 5 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Página 14 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.
Página 5 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 13 - European connections, although actually becoming more intimate— -will, nevertheless, relatively sink in importance ; while the Pacific ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter...
Página 14 - ... two systems which the first Napoleon was contemplating when he predicted that Europe would ultimately be either all Cossack or all republican. Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnant truth. The two systems are at once perceived to be incongruous. But they are more than incongruous — they are incompatible. They never have permanently existed together in one country and they never can. It would be easy to demonstrate this impossibility from the irreconcilable contrast between their great...
Página 14 - I know, and you know, that a revolution has begun. I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.
Página 14 - Constitution and laws they invited foreign free labor from all lands under the sun, and interdicted the importation of African slave labor, at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances whatsoever. It is true that they necessarily and wisely modified this policy of Freedom, by leaving it to the several States, affected as they were by differing circumstances, to abolish Slavery in their own way and at their own pleasure, instead of confiding that duty to Congress, and that they secured...
Página 29 - Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our institutions and restored a sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the Confederacy. That this repose is to suffer no shock during my official term, if I have power to avert it, those who placed me here may be assured.
Página 14 - It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against! mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies whicH ! otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. , ; The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment...
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| Título | speach in the senate |
| Autor | william h. seward |
| Publicação | 1852 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Fev 2006 |
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