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Page vii
... Free and Slave Labor - The Im- mediate Abolition of Slavery the True Policy of the South . CHAPTER II . HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED ... Value of Lands in the Free and in the Slave States - A few Plain Words addressed to Slaveholders ...
... Free and Slave Labor - The Im- mediate Abolition of Slavery the True Policy of the South . CHAPTER II . HOW SLAVERY CAN BE ABOLISHED ... Value of Lands in the Free and in the Slave States - A few Plain Words addressed to Slaveholders ...
Page ix
... Free White Male Persons over fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out - door Labor in the Slave States- Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil - White Female Agriculturists in North ...
... Free White Male Persons over fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out - door Labor in the Slave States- Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil - White Female Agriculturists in North ...
Page x
... Free over Slave Labor - The True Friends of the South - Slavery Thoughtful - Signs of Contrition - Progress of Freedom in the South - Anti- slavery Extracts from Southern Journals - A Right Feel- ing in the Right Quarter - The ...
... Free over Slave Labor - The True Friends of the South - Slavery Thoughtful - Signs of Contrition - Progress of Freedom in the South - Anti- slavery Extracts from Southern Journals - A Right Feel- ing in the Right Quarter - The ...
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... free state men in Kanzas and Nebraska , we sympathize with all our heart We love the whole country , the great ... labor with love , with hope , and with constantly renewing vigor . That we shall encounter opposition we consider as cer ...
... free state men in Kanzas and Nebraska , we sympathize with all our heart We love the whole country , the great ... labor with love , with hope , and with constantly renewing vigor . That we shall encounter opposition we consider as cer ...
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... free states produce far more than one - half ; and it is worthy of particular mention , that the excess of Northern products is of the most valuable kind . The ... free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
... free states produce far more than one - half ; and it is worthy of particular mention , that the excess of Northern products is of the most valuable kind . The ... free labor is far more respectable , profitable , 40 COMPARISON BETWEEN THE.
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Page 213 - That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Page 193 - 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. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Page 242 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Page 193 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain...
Page 272 - Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Page 205 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of HEAVEN on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 194 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Page 242 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 133 - State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States...
Page 272 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.