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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Page xi
... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
Page xix
... forces enne- mies lui avait enlevé successivement , depuis l'ouverture de la cam- pagne , la division Blenker ... forces au moins doubles des siennes , l'armée du Potomac avait réussi à gagner une position où elle était hors de péril ...
... forces enne- mies lui avait enlevé successivement , depuis l'ouverture de la cam- pagne , la division Blenker ... forces au moins doubles des siennes , l'armée du Potomac avait réussi à gagner une position où elle était hors de péril ...
Page xxvii
... force , are to be denied to free nations when voluntarily rendered . It is not enough that " a barbarous and barbarizing " Confederacy should have extended to it the usages of civilized warfare ; a claim of privileged exemption from the ...
... force , are to be denied to free nations when voluntarily rendered . It is not enough that " a barbarous and barbarizing " Confederacy should have extended to it the usages of civilized warfare ; a claim of privileged exemption from the ...
Page xxviii
... force them to do more . This * Describing the defeat at Gainshill ( 27 June , 1862 ) , the writer in the Revue des Deux Mondes ( 18 Octobre , 1862 , p . 859 ) , already quoted , says " Il n'y a pas panique , on ne court pas avec l ...
... force them to do more . This * Describing the defeat at Gainshill ( 27 June , 1862 ) , the writer in the Revue des Deux Mondes ( 18 Octobre , 1862 , p . 859 ) , already quoted , says " Il n'y a pas panique , on ne court pas avec l ...
Page xxxiv
... force of my argument , I am prepared to accept the loss of credit which may on this account fairly attach to my speculations . It is my conviction , however , that experience has greatly strengthened all its principal positions . One ...
... force of my argument , I am prepared to accept the loss of credit which may on this account fairly attach to my speculations . It is my conviction , however , that experience has greatly strengthened all its principal positions . One ...
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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