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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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Against that danger I wTould guard as against the worst calamity that could befal,
not only my country, at her most auspicious stage of progress, but mankind also,
in the hour of their brightest hopes. I would guard against it by practising ...
Against that danger I wTould guard as against the worst calamity that could befal,
not only my country, at her most auspicious stage of progress, but mankind also,
in the hour of their brightest hopes. I would guard against it by practising ...
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But the experience of mankind has conclusively established it. Slavery, as I have
already intimated, existed in every state in Europe. Free labor has supplanted it
everywhere except in Russia and Turkey. State necessities developed in modern
...
But the experience of mankind has conclusively established it. Slavery, as I have
already intimated, existed in every state in Europe. Free labor has supplanted it
everywhere except in Russia and Turkey. State necessities developed in modern
...
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... and has excused them on entirely different and more plausible grounds. But
the inconsistency and frivolity of these pleas prove still more conclusively the guilt
I charge upon that party. It must, * indeed, try to excuse such guilt before mankind
...
... and has excused them on entirely different and more plausible grounds. But
the inconsistency and frivolity of these pleas prove still more conclusively the guilt
I charge upon that party. It must, * indeed, try to excuse such guilt before mankind
...
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(Applause.) Why gentlemen, what is our Union ? What are its antecedents ? What
is its present condition ? If we ward off the evils which threaten it, what its future
hope for us and for the great family of mankind % Why, gentlemen, it may well be
...
(Applause.) Why gentlemen, what is our Union ? What are its antecedents ? What
is its present condition ? If we ward off the evils which threaten it, what its future
hope for us and for the great family of mankind % Why, gentlemen, it may well be
...
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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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