De Bow's Review, Volume 25James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J.D.B. De Bow, 1858 - Southern States |
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... hundred millions of capital in Europe , we have , to all practi- cal purposes , got the use of that capital . Freedom of ex- change gives us the benefit of a vast foreign capital . To illustrate : Suppose that , instead of investing a ...
... hundred millions of capital in Europe , we have , to all practi- cal purposes , got the use of that capital . Freedom of ex- change gives us the benefit of a vast foreign capital . To illustrate : Suppose that , instead of investing a ...
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... hundred and fifty to two hundred millions of dollars value of toilsome earned exports , according to their low rates of value , in a currency restrict- ed to specie abroad , but also find the money , such as it is , and consisting of ...
... hundred and fifty to two hundred millions of dollars value of toilsome earned exports , according to their low rates of value , in a currency restrict- ed to specie abroad , but also find the money , such as it is , and consisting of ...
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... hundred of the banks would shut up shop , as they have nothing to lend but their own manufacture of currency notes , which , then , nobody would borrow or receive . ART . IV . DR . CARTWRIGHT ON THE CAUCASIANS AND THE AFRICANS . SEVERAL ...
... hundred of the banks would shut up shop , as they have nothing to lend but their own manufacture of currency notes , which , then , nobody would borrow or receive . ART . IV . DR . CARTWRIGHT ON THE CAUCASIANS AND THE AFRICANS . SEVERAL ...
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... hundred and forty - six thousand and forty- seven of them , including men , women , and children . They admit and boast that they have controlled the Government for sixty years , and do now . They own three million two hundred and four ...
... hundred and forty - six thousand and forty- seven of them , including men , women , and children . They admit and boast that they have controlled the Government for sixty years , and do now . They own three million two hundred and four ...
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... hundred and forty - six thousand slave - owners , bound together by a single interest , have therefore in their hands practically the political power of about eight million people bond and free . Do they claim more than that for their ...
... hundred and forty - six thousand slave - owners , bound together by a single interest , have therefore in their hands practically the political power of about eight million people bond and free . Do they claim more than that for their ...
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Page 632 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 141 - That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...
Page 323 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence, or general welfare, and allowed by the United States assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several colonies in proportion to the number of inhabitants of every age, sex, and quality, except Indians not paying taxes, in each colony, a true account of which, distinguishing the white inhabitants, shall be triennially taken and transmitted to the Assembly of the United...
Page 168 - And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Page 514 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : provided always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 138 - Their object is disunion: but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you really ready to incur its guilt ? If you are, on the heads of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences; on their heads be the dishonor, but on yours may fall the punishment. On your unhappy State will inevitably fall all the evils of the conflict you force upon the government of your country.
Page 515 - States, and he is hereby authorized, should he deem it expedient, to cause any of the armed vessels of the United States...
Page 131 - That it is an unconstitutional exercise of power, on the part of Congress, to tax the citizens of one State to make roads and canals for the citizens of another State. 5. Resolved, That it is an unconstitutional exercise of power, on the part of Congress, to lay duties to protect domestic manufactures.
Page 132 - ... fellow-citizens, and to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the union of the States and the liberties of which it is the surest pledge, — but feeling it to be their bounden duty to expose and resist all encroachments upon the true spirit of the Constitution, lest an apparent acquiescence in the system of protecting duties should be drawn into precedent, — do, in the name of the commonwealth of South Carolina, claim to enter upon the journals of the Senate, their protest against...
Page 514 - Government had gone into operation, a statute was passed, entitled "an act to prohibit the carrying on the slave-trade from the United States to any foreign place or country.