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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... Northern States have had their origin in slavery . " — Tocqueville . " If America ever undergoes great revolutions , they will be brought about by the presence of the blacks on the soil of the United States ; that is to say , it will ...
... Northern States have had their origin in slavery . " — Tocqueville . " If America ever undergoes great revolutions , they will be brought about by the presence of the blacks on the soil of the United States ; that is to say , it will ...
Page vii
... Northern and Southern people , as well as that antagonism of interests between the two sections which has issued in a series of political conflicts extending over half a century , were no less distinctly traceable . The course of events ...
... Northern and Southern people , as well as that antagonism of interests between the two sections which has issued in a series of political conflicts extending over half a century , were no less distinctly traceable . The course of events ...
Page xi
... Northern forces should have penetrated the Cotton states , than in the ability of the South to defeat its opponent by regular military opera- tions . No one in England at that time expected what has since occurred - the evacuation of ...
... Northern forces should have penetrated the Cotton states , than in the ability of the South to defeat its opponent by regular military opera- tions . No one in England at that time expected what has since occurred - the evacuation of ...
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... Northern people would be recovered ; the Mississippi would be theirs ; the Terri- tories would be open for free colonization . On the other hand , the Slave Power would be thrown back into the corner of a continent ; the field for its ...
... Northern people would be recovered ; the Mississippi would be theirs ; the Terri- tories would be open for free colonization . On the other hand , the Slave Power would be thrown back into the corner of a continent ; the field for its ...
Page xvi
... Northern cause the cause of human freedom , to sustain by the clear expression of their sympathy and approval the spirit of the people to whom this great charge is committed . But the present aspect of affairs gives promise , I think ...
... Northern cause the cause of human freedom , to sustain by the clear expression of their sympathy and approval the spirit of the people to whom this great charge is committed . But the present aspect of affairs gives promise , I think ...
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African slave trade agricultural anti-slavery avait become Bow's Industrial Resources career carried cause character circumstances civilization condition Confederacy Congress connexion considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic Deux Mondes districts economic effect emancipation employed England established états exhausted existence fact favour Federal fertility force free labour Fugitive Slave Law human important increase independence influence institution interests Jefferson Davis Kentucky l'esclavage land less master means ment military Missouri Compromise moral Morrill tariff nations nature negro army North America Northern object Olmsted's Seaboard once party plantations planters political portion position present principle productive profitable proprietors question race regarded Republican result says Seaboard Slave secession slave labour slave population Slave Power slave society slave trade slaveholders slavery social soil South Carolina Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion Union Virginia wealth white population whole writer