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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... ment , and external policy of slave societies , and of the career and designs of the slave power , with the calmness of an impar- tial and philosophic observer , and in a popular and practical manner . Democratic institutions ...
... ment , and external policy of slave societies , and of the career and designs of the slave power , with the calmness of an impar- tial and philosophic observer , and in a popular and practical manner . Democratic institutions ...
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... ment could no longer be withheld , and speculation was directed to the causes of the catastrophe . The theory at first pro- pounded was nearly to this effect . Commercial and fiscal differences were said to be at the bottom of the ...
... ment could no longer be withheld , and speculation was directed to the causes of the catastrophe . The theory at first pro- pounded was nearly to this effect . Commercial and fiscal differences were said to be at the bottom of the ...
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... ment . And , first , if free trade be the object of the South , why , we may ask , has it not employed its power to accomplish this object during its long period of predominance in the Union ? It has been powerful enough to pass and ...
... ment . And , first , if free trade be the object of the South , why , we may ask , has it not employed its power to accomplish this object during its long period of predominance in the Union ? It has been powerful enough to pass and ...
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... ment of the original design of the seceders - the extension of slavery , or the utter defeat of that design , according to the terms on which the separation takes place ; and that therefore the severance of the Union by no means implies ...
... ment of the original design of the seceders - the extension of slavery , or the utter defeat of that design , according to the terms on which the separation takes place ; and that therefore the severance of the Union by no means implies ...
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... ment will prevent their working carelessly and indifferently . It always seems on the plantation as if they took pains to break all the tools and spoil all the cattle that they possibly can , even when they know they'll be punished for ...
... ment will prevent their working carelessly and indifferently . It always seems on the plantation as if they took pains to break all the tools and spoil all the cattle that they possibly can , even when they know they'll be punished for ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky l'esclavage land less Louisiana means ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations nature necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession Senate slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole
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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 95 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page x - 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 90 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
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 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 131 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Page x - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : — SECTION 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons, and taking refuge within the lines of the army, and all slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States,...
Page x - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained...
Page ix - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...