The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs, Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest |
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... natural to those whose feelings and interests are immediately affected . Earnest and thoughtful books have also been written here by men whose testimony may be relied upon , and which have had more or less influence upon public opinion ...
... natural to those whose feelings and interests are immediately affected . Earnest and thoughtful books have also been written here by men whose testimony may be relied upon , and which have had more or less influence upon public opinion ...
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... natural course of internal development : Inherent difficulty of the problem ; Modern precedents inapplicable ... naturally inferior to that of the North . - Compen- sating forces : The three fifths vote ; Superior capacity in the South ...
... natural course of internal development : Inherent difficulty of the problem ; Modern precedents inapplicable ... naturally inferior to that of the North . - Compen- sating forces : The three fifths vote ; Superior capacity in the South ...
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... Natural difficulties enhanced in the South ; Im- possibility of protecting the negro ; The ' mean whites ' ; their corrupting influence . II . Progressive emancipation : Advantage of dealing with the evil in detail ; Facilities offered ...
... Natural difficulties enhanced in the South ; Im- possibility of protecting the negro ; The ' mean whites ' ; their corrupting influence . II . Progressive emancipation : Advantage of dealing with the evil in detail ; Facilities offered ...
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... natural under the circumstances , but undoubtedly not more so than the bitter mortification and resentment which that re- sponse evoked . The prevailing idea that inspired the Northern rising was , I have said , the determination to ...
... natural under the circumstances , but undoubtedly not more so than the bitter mortification and resentment which that re- sponse evoked . The prevailing idea that inspired the Northern rising was , I have said , the determination to ...
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... natural antithesis to the aims of the seceders . Be- tween these and the South there can be no compromise ; and , conformably to the law which invariably governs revolutions , they are the party who are rapidly becoming predominant in ...
... natural antithesis to the aims of the seceders . Be- tween these and the South there can be no compromise ; and , conformably to the law which invariably governs revolutions , they are the party who are rapidly becoming predominant in ...
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Page 126 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page ix - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page x - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page x - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page 129 - That it is the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments, to protect, when necessary, the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends.
Page 96 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page ix - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page ix - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 45 - ... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas...