The Brothers' WarLittle, Brown, 1905 - Всего страниц: 456 |
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... latter not amounting to more than five percent of the entire black population - are slowly falling away from the benign elevation above West Africa wrought by slavery . That they are here , is felt every year to be more injurious . They ...
... latter not amounting to more than five percent of the entire black population - are slowly falling away from the benign elevation above West Africa wrought by slavery . That they are here , is felt every year to be more injurious . They ...
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... latter wanted all of the Territories suiting them made into States protecting their slave- labor system . What ought especially to be recognized by us now is that this contention was between good , honest , industrious , plain , free ...
... latter wanted all of the Territories suiting them made into States protecting their slave- labor system . What ought especially to be recognized by us now is that this contention was between good , honest , industrious , plain , free ...
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... latter wakes up to discover that the former is violating some capital article of the decalogue . This was true of the root - and - branch abo- litionist . And his high - flown morality was made still more Quixotic by his conscientiously ...
... latter wakes up to discover that the former is violating some capital article of the decalogue . This was true of the root - and - branch abo- litionist . And his high - flown morality was made still more Quixotic by his conscientiously ...
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... latter and the State of Texas , the suppression of the slave - trade in the District of Co- lumbia , and the extradition of fugitive slaves , and ( connected with them ) the rejection of propositions to exclude slavery from the Mexican ...
... latter and the State of Texas , the suppression of the slave - trade in the District of Co- lumbia , and the extradition of fugitive slaves , and ( connected with them ) the rejection of propositions to exclude slavery from the Mexican ...
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... latter believed that the African slave of the south was just such a human being , ready for liberty and self - government in all particulars , as civilized and enlightened whites . They believed that the con- dition of his immediate ...
... latter believed that the African slave of the south was just such a human being , ready for liberty and self - government in all particulars , as civilized and enlightened whites . They believed that the con- dition of his immediate ...
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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...