The American Crisis ConsideredLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 296 páginas |
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Página 45
... crops , and higher prices for it , operates against the political extension of the section , since it tends powerfully to concentrate the population . We shall show , under the head of cotton culture , POLITICAL STRUGGLES . 45.
... crops , and higher prices for it , operates against the political extension of the section , since it tends powerfully to concentrate the population . We shall show , under the head of cotton culture , POLITICAL STRUGGLES . 45.
Página 46
... cotton at less price than the Atlantic States , and that migration of blacks took place which produced so manifest a change in the slave population in the several States by the census of 1850. In the table of black popu- lation , of the ...
... cotton at less price than the Atlantic States , and that migration of blacks took place which produced so manifest a change in the slave population in the several States by the census of 1850. In the table of black popu- lation , of the ...
Página 47
... cotton raised in the five years ending with 1860 is 17,732,307 bales , and in the five years ending with 1850 there were raised 8,951,587 , or 85,434 bales less than half , at the same time the price per pound at one time , in 1857 ...
... cotton raised in the five years ending with 1860 is 17,732,307 bales , and in the five years ending with 1850 there were raised 8,951,587 , or 85,434 bales less than half , at the same time the price per pound at one time , in 1857 ...
Página 49
... commercial ruin of each , and not improbable , the almost total destruction of both , unless the merciful hand of God interfere to prevent so dire a catastrophe . E 50 CHAP . III . COTTON . THE question of WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? 49.
... commercial ruin of each , and not improbable , the almost total destruction of both , unless the merciful hand of God interfere to prevent so dire a catastrophe . E 50 CHAP . III . COTTON . THE question of WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? 49.
Página 50
... cotton growers of the Southern States do not regard with the slightest anxiety or jealousy the efforts that are being made to produce cotton in Asia , Africa , Australia , and South America . If success attends the movements of the Cotton ...
... cotton growers of the Southern States do not regard with the slightest anxiety or jealousy the efforts that are being made to produce cotton in Asia , Africa , Australia , and South America . If success attends the movements of the Cotton ...
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Abraham Lincoln action ad valorem American assertion authority bales blockade capital cent citizens civilised cloth coloured Confederate Congress constitution cotton crop declared defend disunion duty Edinburgh Review Ellison enacted Encyclopædia England Engravings execution existence export fact favour federacy Federal Government force foreign fugitive slave fugitive slave law habeas corpus History Illustrations interest JAMES MARTINEAU Kansas land liberty Majesty's government manufactures Maps MARTIN ARCHER SHEE ment Missouri Missouri Compromise morocco Natural negro North Northern opinion organisation party peace person Plates political Portrait ports Post 8vo pound present President principle produce protection question reason recognised revised seceding secession Second Edition sections Senate service or labour slaveholding slavery South Carolina Southern Square crown 8vo stitution tariff territory tion tonnage trade Union United valorem Vignette vols vote West whole Woodcuts York
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Página 13 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 20 - Rowton's Debater : A Series of complete Debates, Outlines of Debates, and Questions for Discussion; with ample References to the best Sources of Information.
Página 235 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Página 229 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Página 15 - TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. Comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, &c.
Página 232 - The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce the majority must, or the Government must cease.
Página 104 - And be it further enacted, that in all that territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Página 234 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 228 - It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and...
Página 15 - James Mackintosh's Miscellaneous Works : Including his Contributions to The Edinburgh Review. Complete in One Volume ; with Portrait and Vignette. Square crown 8vo.