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... ment of the more intelligent and patriotic non - slaveholders will be mingled with indignation , is no more than we an- ticipate . We confess our own surprise , and deep chagrin , at the result of our investigations . Until we examined ...
... ment of the more intelligent and patriotic non - slaveholders will be mingled with indignation , is no more than we an- ticipate . We confess our own surprise , and deep chagrin , at the result of our investigations . Until we examined ...
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... ment of agriculture , as in every other , the North is vastly the superior of the South - the figures showing a total balance in favor of the former of twenty - four billion five hun dred and thirty - nine million six hundred and ninety ...
... ment of agriculture , as in every other , the North is vastly the superior of the South - the figures showing a total balance in favor of the former of twenty - four billion five hun dred and thirty - nine million six hundred and ninety ...
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... ment of free white husbandmen , than it is when under the rude and nature - murdering tillage of enslaved negroes ; and in two subsequent tables they shall find that the live stock , slaughtered animals , farms , and farming implements ...
... ment of free white husbandmen , than it is when under the rude and nature - murdering tillage of enslaved negroes ; and in two subsequent tables they shall find that the live stock , slaughtered animals , farms , and farming implements ...
Page 111
... ment , Virginia , with a much larger extent of territory than New - York , contained a population of seven hundred and fifty thousand , and sent ten representatives to Congress ; while New - York contained a population of three hundred ...
... ment , Virginia , with a much larger extent of territory than New - York , contained a population of seven hundred and fifty thousand , and sent ten representatives to Congress ; while New - York contained a population of three hundred ...
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... ment within a restricted area . It will far excel slave society in the cultivation of the ground - first , on account of the superior intelligence of the laborers ; and secondly , in consequence of the greater and more various demands ...
... ment within a restricted area . It will far excel slave society in the cultivation of the ground - first , on account of the superior intelligence of the laborers ; and secondly , in consequence of the greater and more various demands ...
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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.