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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... tariffs of 1832 , * 1842 , and 1846 , it should have resorted to the extreme measure of secession while under the tariff of 1857 - a comparatively free- trade law ? From 1842 down to 1860 the tendency of Federal legislation was ...
... tariffs of 1832 , * 1842 , and 1846 , it should have resorted to the extreme measure of secession while under the tariff of 1857 - a comparatively free- trade law ? From 1842 down to 1860 the tendency of Federal legislation was ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law important increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky land less Louisiana mean whites ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable progress proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole