The True Story of the Barons of the South: Or, The Rationale of the American Conflict |
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... became apprehensive as to the nature of the disease with which they had inoculated the national being ; and fears as to the dangers which might be evolved out of the perpetuation of slavery were openly and solemnly expressed . Gradually ...
... became apprehensive as to the nature of the disease with which they had inoculated the national being ; and fears as to the dangers which might be evolved out of the perpetuation of slavery were openly and solemnly expressed . Gradually ...
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... became rooted deeper in her growing polity in the process of time . In the first in- stance , negroes were enslaved on the ground that they were heathen ; but as they began to be con- verted and Christianized , it became necessary to ...
... became rooted deeper in her growing polity in the process of time . In the first in- stance , negroes were enslaved on the ground that they were heathen ; but as they began to be con- verted and Christianized , it became necessary to ...
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... became impervious to the nobler influences of the country . The action of Congress became embarrassed perhaps we may say controlled — in important emergencies by local opinion and in- terest . And , owing to the same influences , Wash ...
... became impervious to the nobler influences of the country . The action of Congress became embarrassed perhaps we may say controlled — in important emergencies by local opinion and in- terest . And , owing to the same influences , Wash ...
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... When these Colonies came to be united in the Federal compact , * See the Arguments of Justices McLean and Curtis , in the case of Dred Scott . after the Revolution , it became necessary , in order 58 OUR POLITICAL APOSTASY .
... When these Colonies came to be united in the Federal compact , * See the Arguments of Justices McLean and Curtis , in the case of Dred Scott . after the Revolution , it became necessary , in order 58 OUR POLITICAL APOSTASY .
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... became necessary , in order to give slavery a legal existence in the Republic , to enact into the Constitution a positive provision for its support . Being of such an exceptional na- ture , nothing short of an express and positive en ...
... became necessary , in order to give slavery a legal existence in the Republic , to enact into the Constitution a positive provision for its support . Being of such an exceptional na- ture , nothing short of an express and positive en ...
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Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists adopted American American Anti-Slavery Society Anti-Slavery Society arms ARTHUR TAPPAN authority Barons became Boston BURR cause Charles Sumner Christian Church citizens civil clause committee compact Congress conspiracy Constitution crime declared DESPOTIC SYSTEM despotism Divine doctrine emancipation England evil fact favor federacy Federal Government Fort Sumter free society freedom freemen fugitive slaves GARRISON Goodell Hildreth's History honor hostile human influence instincts institution insurrection interest JOHN QUINCY ADAMS justice Kentucky labor land Legislature LEWIS TAPPAN liberty loyal Massachusetts master ment Missouri moral nation nature negro North Northern odious oligarchy organized party peace perpetuity persons political President principles protection question race rebellion rebels reform Republic republican resist sanction sentiment slav slave power slave representation slave society slave-holding social South Carolina Southern spirit Supreme Court system of slavery territory tion treason Union United violation Virginia WENDELL PHILLIPS WILLIAM GOODELL
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Page 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain.
Page 21 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 37 - 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 98 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Page 93 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 38 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 144 - ... this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man; and by that law unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 39 - Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Page 37 - 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. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 76 - ... 2. Resolved, — by the delegates of the Annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, that they are decidedly opposed to modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention, to interfere in the civil, and political relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slave-holding states of this Union.