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Certainly, no mere human event of equal dignity and importance has ever
occurred upon the earth. It will be followed by the equalization of the condition of
society and the restoration of the unity of the human family. We see plainly
enough why ...
Certainly, no mere human event of equal dignity and importance has ever
occurred upon the earth. It will be followed by the equalization of the condition of
society and the restoration of the unity of the human family. We see plainly
enough why ...
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... the better passions of mankind will soon have their development in the new
theatre of human activity. Commerce is the great agent of this movement.
Whatever nation shall put that commerce into full employment, and shall conduct
it steadily ...
... the better passions of mankind will soon have their development in the new
theatre of human activity. Commerce is the great agent of this movement.
Whatever nation shall put that commerce into full employment, and shall conduct
it steadily ...
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The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due
to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the old one of
servile labor, which has already taken place. This African slave system is one ...
The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due
to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the old one of
servile labor, which has already taken place. This African slave system is one ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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There is an instinctive abhorrence of Slavery, and an inborn and inhering love of
Freedom in the human heart, which render palliation of such gros?1 misconduct
indispensable. It disfranchised the free African on the ground of a fear that, if left ...
There is an instinctive abhorrence of Slavery, and an inborn and inhering love of
Freedom in the human heart, which render palliation of such gros?1 misconduct
indispensable. It disfranchised the free African on the ground of a fear that, if left ...
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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...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | speach in the senate |
| Autor | william h. seward |
| Publicação | 1852 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Fev 2006 |
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