The Brothers' WarLittle, Brown, 1905 - Всего страниц: 456 |
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... south , and south north , as the incarnation of evil : Time , however , has begun its healing 1 A Literary History of America , 345 . 2 Id . 346 . 8 Id . 489 . work ; at last our country begins to understand itself Introductory 29.
... south , and south north , as the incarnation of evil : Time , however , has begun its healing 1 A Literary History of America , 345 . 2 Id . 346 . 8 Id . 489 . work ; at last our country begins to understand itself Introductory 29.
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... evil and peril . The co - operation of two facts fully explains the won- der just noted . Now let us try to understand this . The first fact is the part played by tobacco and cotton before the anti - slavery sentiment became influential ...
... evil and peril . The co - operation of two facts fully explains the won- der just noted . Now let us try to understand this . The first fact is the part played by tobacco and cotton before the anti - slavery sentiment became influential ...
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... evil in that which their most admired and dearest ones had all practised . The classics did not stop with giving slavery the negative support just mentioned . Although such authors as Quintilian and Seneca , and the later jurists all of ...
... evil in that which their most admired and dearest ones had all practised . The classics did not stop with giving slavery the negative support just mentioned . Although such authors as Quintilian and Seneca , and the later jurists all of ...
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... evil day . A satisfactory reply need not postulate any other than ordinary intelligence and alertness for the south . Note how people dwell near overflowing rivers , or a sea of tidal waves , or live volcanoes , or in earthquake ...
... evil day . A satisfactory reply need not postulate any other than ordinary intelligence and alertness for the south . Note how people dwell near overflowing rivers , or a sea of tidal waves , or live volcanoes , or in earthquake ...
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... evil conditions of Europe from which our fathers fled hither . Slavery is the vis matrix , the sole developing force , the life of this menaced confed- eracy . Let us abolish slavery , and preserve the union . - How accurately the ...
... evil conditions of Europe from which our fathers fled hither . Slavery is the vis matrix , the sole developing force , the life of this menaced confed- eracy . Let us abolish slavery , and preserve the union . - How accurately the ...
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Стр. 430 - 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.
Стр. 55 - The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Стр. 117 - I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion.
Стр. 57 - But he contended that the states were divided into different interests, not by their difference of size, but by other circumstances ; the most material of which resulted partly from climate, but principally from the effects of their having, or not having slaves. These two causes concurred in forming the great division of interests in the united states. It did not lie between the large and small states. It lay between the Northern and Southern ; and if any defensive power were necessary, it ought...
Стр. 54 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Стр. 322 - The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your storied tombs, Behold! your sisters bring their tears, And these memorial blooms. Small tributes! but your shades will smile More proudly on these wreaths to-day, Than when some cannon-moulded pile Shall overlook this bay. Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There is no holier spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning beauty...
Стр. 116 - The North has only to will it to accomplish it, to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled, to cease the agitation of the slave question, and to provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to the South, in substance, the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections...
Стр. 114 - Having now shown what cannot save the Union, I return to the question with which I commenced — How can the Union be saved? There is but one way by which it can with any certainty, and that is by a full and final settlement, on the principle of justice, of all the questions at issue between the two sections.
Стр. 9 - That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of this convention, will and ought to resist, even — as a last resort — to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the union, any future act of congress abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, without the consent and petition of the slaveholders thereof...
Стр. 72 - When the Constitution was adopted by the votes of the States at Philadelphia and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say there was not a man in the country, from Washington and Hamilton on the one side to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States, and from which each and every State had the right peaceably...