The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, & Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American ContestParker, Son, and Bourn, 1862 - Всего страниц: 304 |
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African slave trade aggressive agricultural ambition American American Anti-Slavery Society annexation anti-slavery become brought career carried cause character circumstances civilized colonization commenced communities condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences consideration Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation Democratic districts economic effect emancipation equal established existence extension of slavery fact favour fertile force Free and Slave free labour freedom freesoilers Fugitive Slave Law future important increase independence influence interests Kansas land less mean whites ment Mexico Mississippi Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff motive nations natural Nebraska Bill necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted's once peculiar planters political portion position present principle profitable progress proprietors question race regular industry result secession Senate settlement settlers slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff of 1832 territory territory of Kansas Texas tion Union United Virginia wealth whole
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Стр. 53 - ... 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...
Стр. 185 - 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...
Стр. 153 - 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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Стр. 52 - In traversing that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers, fox-tail and broomsedge ; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls oftmce thrifty villages, and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white...
Стр. 185 - Nebraska bill declared, in so many words, that it was the true intent and meaning of the act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, 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.
Стр. 142 - 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. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Стр. 150 - ... present slave population within the limits of that county. Such is the rapid natural increase of the slaves, and the rapid exhaustion of the soil in the cultivation of those crops (which add so much to the commercial wealth of the country), that in a few years it would be impossible to support them within the limits of such county. Both master and slave would be starved out ; and what would be the practical effect in any one county, the same result would happen to all the slaveholding States.
Стр. 68 - ... life. From the right bank, on the contrary, a confused hum is heard which proclaims the presence of industry ; the fields are covered with abundant harvests, the elegance of the dwellings announces the taste and activity of the laborer, and man appears to be in the enjoyment of that wealth and contentment which is the reward of labor.
Стр. 142 - In the conflict thus far, success has been on our side, complete throughout the length and breadth of the Confederate States. It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted ; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.
Стр. 102 - It was more for the interest of the merchant or manufacturer to purchase, than to hire his workmen ; and in the country, slaves were employed as the cheapest and most laborious instruments of agriculture.