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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... slaveholders , and by the North in the hope of attracting the sympathies of Europe and hallowing a cause which was essentially destitute of noble aims . The civil war was thus described as having sprung from narrow and selfish views of ...
... slaveholders , and by the North in the hope of attracting the sympathies of Europe and hallowing a cause which was essentially destitute of noble aims . The civil war was thus described as having sprung from narrow and selfish views of ...
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... slaveholders ) mnay , where it has once obtained a firm footing , prevail over those for its abolition , even though it be far inferior as a productive instrument to free - labour . The most , therefore , that can be inferred from the ...
... slaveholders ) mnay , where it has once obtained a firm footing , prevail over those for its abolition , even though it be far inferior as a productive instrument to free - labour . The most , therefore , that can be inferred from the ...
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... slave - holders or free peasants , naturally fix in the first instance on the richest and most conveniently situated Boils , and find it more profitable to cultivate these lightly , avail- ing themselves to the utmost of the resources ...
... slave - holders or free peasants , naturally fix in the first instance on the richest and most conveniently situated Boils , and find it more profitable to cultivate these lightly , avail- ing themselves to the utmost of the resources ...
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... slave - holders who reap all its fruits , and an idle and law- less rabble who live dispersed over vast plains in a condition little removed from absolute barbarism . These form the con- stituent elements of the society of which the ...
... slave - holders who reap all its fruits , and an idle and law- less rabble who live dispersed over vast plains in a condition little removed from absolute barbarism . These form the con- stituent elements of the society of which the ...
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... slaveholder , acting as the champion of slaveholders , in revenge for an anti - slavery speech ; it was characterized by that mingled treachery , cowardice , and brutality which are only to be found in socie- ties reared in the presence ...
... slaveholder , acting as the champion of slaveholders , in revenge for an anti - slavery speech ; it was characterized by that mingled treachery , cowardice , and brutality which are only to be found in socie- ties reared in the presence ...
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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...